The MMR's official explanation is a "scam"

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The previous month I stopped ranking at d5 and starred doing achievements with very bad decks and losing enormously for dozens of games in a row because the decks were bad; that DID lower the MMR very obviously and enormously as expected; at some point I started seeing players playing so badly that it felt like it was their first day (no netdecks either) (and playing very slowly using their rope or disconnecting).

But the “scam” is ( or rather the inaccuraccy of the officially reported way the MMR operates) that the next month I started immediately seeing on chicken 10 rank the most refined netdecks played well and fast; this obviously is a deviation of what’s expected; there’s obviously a CAP OF HOW LOW YOU CAN DROP IT AFTER YOU GET STUCK AT A RANK BOTTOM AFTER YOU RANK (but it only nanifests at reset).

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The title of this thread is projection. YOU tried to scam the MMR system, and you’re upset that the system is too smart to fall for your scam.

There isn’t an officially reported way. All we really know is that it’s hidden and it doesn’t reset (monthly or otherwise).

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That’s a strawman and probably projection of how you operate. I was doing achievements and I was not planning to take advantage of it.

It was just very unexpected it behaves that way; also it may be more than I described; e.g. rank floors may have special MMR status.

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Because you thought that you could scam it.

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Keep talking to the mirror I guess. I was not sure if you’re projecting or just confused. But since you seem to think you have clairvoyancy skills over internet text it’s obviously projection.

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Can you just read what you wrote yourself here, and think critically about it?

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You personally attack people with no evidence to back your claims. You can only derive those imaginary things from your own experience.

Hence your own experience is trying to scam the game.

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Some people are just hopeless.

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This is what I’m criticizing. It’s not imaginary; it’s what you wrote.

The purpose of MMR is to measure skill as accurately as possible. You are complaining because the system did a good job.

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My motives you imagine are imaginary. It’s obvious you see scamming opportunities yourself and that’s your responsibility.

I was just doing achievements (PS the resident egotist supporting you says nothing either).

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You are literally complaining because the MMR system wasn’t fooled by you playing weak decks to chase achievements (as you expected), and instead appraised your skill accurately at the beginning of the month. You are complaining about the system not falling for one type of scam.

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You keep protecting your lust for scamming. There’s no evidence losng at a rank floor was done for achievements necessarily.

Maybe I was playing badly and made bad decisions with deck selection.

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Your own words are evidence.

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Now you make basic logical errors. We’re talking about the MMR algorithm. It has no knowledge of the future of forum text.

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So you’re telling me that the game couldn’t tell that you were making progress towards and/or earning achievements? Apparently you must mean some custom list of achievements that isn’t available in-game?

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Maybe it did tell, but it was unexpected. The only logical thing you said in this thread is that the algo may still be a big black box.

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I mean, it’s obvious to me that a game where you earned an achievement then immediately conceded is not a game where you were really trying to win. Why should that not be obvious to the MMR system?

This is clearly a case of you thinking that the algorithm was stupid enough to fall for something that should be obvious, then it did NOT fall for it.

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It’s very subjective if that would be stupid. Maybe someone genuinely does bad decisions at a rank floor when they try to win.

It would be GOOD indeed if it predicted what I did but it increases complexity and points of failure of the algorithm.

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And if you think it’s unfair to call a cheap trick a scam, then I want you to commit from this moment forward to publicly push back against every post that you see calling venomous units or Leeroy or Bramblewitch in BGs “scam” units. Those are perfectly valid, noncheat units, dotchya know.

I’m kidding, they’re scam, and so is what you tried to pull.

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The very first thing I did in this threat, was to put the word scam in quotation marks and say it wasn’t literally a scam but unexpected. You chose to ignore that.