So I was playing ranked mode working on getting characters to C rank for the god forsaken achievement. So I started on ken and my first match was a mirror match my 0 BP ken vs this guys 3200 BP ken. I think great im gonna get shit on. But match starts and this guy turns out to be a mashing whore  who jumps around like a tard, and I end up raping him like he is my prison bitch. I laugh at him and bask in my victory over this jackass, and keep playing.
 
Then of course things must come full circle and a few matches later I play a 800BP blanka. He is a random ass crap blanka but the universe take pleasure in kicking me in the nuts. I make some dumbass mistakes and lose then in a bit of  irony this lame ass blanka sends me a message. Calling me a scrub ken. I love it.
 
So for anyone who thinks there badass cause they have so much PP or BP or ranked so high. Trust me thats not saying a whole lot. Your basically the best student in special-ed class. The opposite is true as well if you think you suck cause your lose in ranked mode. You probably don't random ass scrubs win sometimes it happens.
 
Ranked mode means shit my friends play it to get the dumb shit achievement thats about it.

I think PP actually holds more weight. It's not perfect but if someone has 4k BP with a certain character with only 500 PP you can tell they're not so great.

BP means nothing compared to PP.  If someone with 500PP goes against someone with 3K PP, the 500PP dude will get beaten up, especially if the 3K dude chooses a character with more BP than the other guy.   
 
I think it would be better if class was associated with one's PP and not BP, but oh well.

PP still isn't all that reliable since you lose your PP no matter what character your using. Hell I lost a ton of PP trying to win matches with characters I don't use trying to get them to c rank.

BP means nothing except how long the person's been playing that character in ranked. That's it. If I saw a 15kBP Ken with 300PP I would still know he was gunna be ass. I feel like I'm being personaly put on blast with this thread lol but I'm not bothered.

" BP means nothing except how long the person's been playing that character in ranked. That's it. If I saw a 15kBP Ken with 300PP I would still know he was gunna be ass. I feel like I'm being personaly put on blast with this thread lol but I'm not bothered. "

It makes sense to lose PP if you lose though. Since you can lose a lot of it if you get beat by someone lower then your skill level "pp". You shouldn't be losing to these people. There are flaws in the system though. Pros who JUST got the game can rank up way easily.

PP makes more sense since it's the player's overall performance playing ranked matches.  BP increases faster than PP and decreases less in losses.  And all in all, the number of the PP and BP doesn't really tell how good you are.  It just tells how much you play Ranked matches.  I have played 0 PP and 0 BP that really kicked my ass online.  You'll meet better players in Endless than Ranked.

" It makes sense to lose PP if you lose though. Since you can lose a lot of it if you get beat by someone lower then your skill level "pp". You shouldn't be losing to these people. There are flaws in the system though. Pros who JUST got the game can rank up way easily. "

" @j0nnyDiGITAL said:

" It makes sense to lose PP if you lose though. Since you can lose a lot of it if you get beat by someone lower then your skill level "pp". You shouldn't be losing to these people. There are flaws in the system though. Pros who JUST got the game can rank up way easily. "

I agree but a major "Flaw" with the system is it doesn't use BP in the skill match-ups so if you have 2k pp but your using a character you say have 0bp with. You get someone the same skill as you but chances are that person is using there main they could have 8k BP with. "

I don't really care about either BP or PP. If I lose to someone it's not because they had more BP or PP than me, it's because they out-played me, scrubbily or not. 
 
I play ranked because I don't have to wait around watching others like in Endless. 

This doesn't really prove anything. The points have nothing to do with ranked as far as I'm concerned.

I had a guile rage quit on me when i was using viper.
 
He sent me a message and It said "I'm not giving wins to people who refuse to use their normals and just spam special moves."
 
>_>

" I had a guile rage quit on me when i was using viper.  It said "I'm not giving wins to people who refuse to use their normals and just spam special moves."  >_> "

"Then of course things must come full circle and a few matches later I play a 800BP blanka. He is a random ass crap blanka but the universe take pleasure in kicking me in the nuts. I make some dumbass mistakes and lose then in a bit of  irony this lame ass blanka sends me a message."

i like ranked mode for divesity but the match making is horrible, because i often get the same person 5 times in a row.
 
 
anyway, i face this one sagat player sometimes on ranked who has like a million points and hes pretty awful.
 
s/sf4 is the type of game where really bad players can actually win a lot, so its to be expected.

The game is supposed to match players based on PP, but I don't think the game cares too much about it.  I get matched against people with 1000-1500 PP waaaay more often than I should, like ever.  My PP is around 200.  I have been playing mostly endless, and... I suck.  But that's not the point.  The point is, that even if there is nobody near my skill on, I should not be paired with those people. 

it may not have anyone thats around 200 to match you up with

" it may not have anyone thats around 200 to match you up with "

" @Necrotrophic said:

" it may not have anyone thats around 200 to match you up with "

There are plenty. "