This is why you don't discuss balance on SP forums in a nutshell.
> Bring out irrelevant argument
> Try sound smart
New classic mains going to DM v New DM mains going to Classic. How does time have anything to do with it?
How does time? Same thing with CHESS... elo systems always rise over time the longer they are in force. The math means that time alone causes the ELO rankings to rise as does player turnover... so look at the historical ELOs for chess players over the past 80 years... they continue to rise, and depending on various factors, sometimes more slowly, sometimes less.
"The average Elo rating of top players has risen over time. For instance, the average of the top 10 active players rose from 2751 in July 2000 to 2794 in July 2014, a 43-point increase in 14 years. The average rating of the top 100 players, meanwhile, increased from 2644 to 2703, a 59-point increase.[10] Many people believe that this rise is mostly due to a system artifact known as ratings inflation, making it impractical to compare players of different eras.[11]
Arpad Elo was of the opinion that it was futile to attempt to use ratings to compare players from different eras; in his view, they could only possibly measure the strength of a player as compared to his or her contemporaries. He also stated that the process of rating players was in any case rather approximate; he compared it to "the measurement of the position of a cork bobbing up and down on the surface of agitated water with a yard stick tied to a rope and which is swaying in the wind".[12]"
