In my opinion, this change was a long coming for a few reasons:
1. PCC was broken using open hhf.
2. Some classifiers were too easy for hhf and some were too hard. Hopefully they found more balance based on actual data.
The majority of the ones I plugged in seemed to have a higher hhf now, including a lot of classics like el pres. I think overall it’s going to be much harder to hit GM, and a lot of people who are Gm now, especially those who are barely over the 95% mark, likely wouldn’t be under the new hhf’s. I looked at my recent classifiers to see if I would have made it, and I think I would have barely scraped in. Here are my recent counting classifiers:
The first number is the new score, the second number (in parenthesis) is the old score.
99-22 93.29 (94.72)
99-16 100 (100)
09-03 99.9 (100)
08-03 90.227 (99.36)
06-04 89.39 (100)
09-04 88.43 (98.37)
99-10 81.46 (86.51)
13-05 99.58 (100)
09-13 92.73 (90.4%)
My current avg would drop from 99.55% to about 98%, but that’s only because several classifiers would have dropped below 90% and wouldn’t count. Two got slightly easier (13-05 and 09-13).