What percentage of players get into each league tier?
E.g., if I'm in the Silver league, this means I'm generally/statistically better than what percentage of the players?
(At least for the first qualifying matches, that is)
I don't know what it is by design but I can provide statistics on a per region basis. Bare in mind, this is where players are, not where they belong (so they maybe better or worse than they appear).
Region Diamond Plat Gold Silver Bronz
Global 5.48% (25,969) 16.03% (75,970) 21.58% (102,249) 21.28% (100,830) 35.62% (168,781)
North America 5.29% (10,831) 17.61% (36,060) 21.53% (44,102) 19.58% (40,109) 35.99% (73,709)
Europe 5.34% (7,604) 15.65% (22,297) 21.02% (29,944) 20.78% (29,615) 37.22% (53,028)
Korea 6.53% (3,437) 14.44% (7,599) 23.66% (12,451) 26.05% (13,709) 29.32% (15,433)
Taiwan 5.68% (1,663) 13.04% (3,820) 22.03% (6,451) 24.73% (7,241) 34.53% (10,111)
Southeast Asia 5.03% (1,170) 13.55% (3,151) 20.99% (4,882) 22.66% (5,272) 37.77% (8,786)
Russia 5.96% (952) 14.11% (2,253) 20.17% (3,222) 22.63% (3,614) 37.14% (5,932)
Latin America 5.83% (312) 14.76% (790) 22.37% (1,197) 23.73% (1,270) 33.30% (1,782)
These numbers would seem to suggest the following:
- Diamond: 95th Percentile
- Plat: 80th Percentile
- Gold: 60th Percentile
- Silver: 40-35th Percentile
- Bronze: 1st Percentile
Update:
At Blizzcon 2010 Blizzard announced that they would add two new leagues with the following requirements:
- Grand Master: Top 200 players
- Master: 98th Percentile
Updated figures as of today are as follows (all the raw #s in the first table refer to the # of pages of divisions, so multiply by 100 to get actual numbers, +/- a few)
1v1 2v2R 3v3R 4v4R 2v2T 3v3T 4v4T Totals
Diamond 370 125 144 105 130 23 4 901
Plat 784 268 292 215 484 159 52 2,254
Gold 964 449 442 377 756 309 125 3,422
Silver 927 507 469 391 927 394 161 3,776
Bronze 1,984 874 508 358 1,787 1,094 385 6,990
Total 5,029 2,223 1,855 1,446 4,084 1,979 727 17,343
% 1v1 2v2R 3v3R 4v4R 2v2T 3v3T 4v4T Totals
Diamond 7.4% 5.6% 7.8% 7.3% 3.2% 1.2% 0.6% 5.2%
Plat 15.6% 12.1% 15.7% 14.9% 11.9% 8.0% 7.2% 13.0%
Gold 19.2% 20.2% 23.8% 26.1% 18.5% 15.6% 17.2% 19.7%
Silver 18.4% 22.8% 25.3% 27.0% 22.7% 19.9% 22.1% 21.8%
Bronze 39.5% 39.3% 27.4% 24.8% 43.8% 55.3% 53.0% 40.3%
EDIT: Trying to make it format a bit better.