The MMR's official explanation is a "scam"

[Carnivore-2587]

That’s a pretty good source thanks. Therefore I WAS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT the MMR got raised higher than the tanking l did to it at the d5 floor.

However notice some subtleties; they leave vague how they calculate the soft reset (it’s probably the MAX MMR you had); also they do not exactly say if TEMPORARILY the MMR drops during the tanking at a rank floor (it obviously does).

@Altair-2432

@Kerfluffle-11372

No, in general you won’t. At the start of the season we will recover your MMR to certain threshold if it is dropped below that value, which is based on what your rank is in the previous season. Therefore, there would be no benefits to intentionally tank your MMR.

I don’t think I’ve ever read this one. If I had read this before, I wouldn’t even have engaged in discussions about is there any sort of a monthly reset or not. There obviously is. You can’t resort to a “historical MMR” without resetting it, at least softly.

This whole time I’ve been operating under a wrong assumption that they’ve explicitly said multiple times that no resets of any kind exists regarding MMR, but it’s obviously a false assumption since they literally said there was.

Yeah it pretty much confirms your soft reset theory. However notice they leave out how exactly they calculate the “true” MMR for the reset (it’s probably the MAX MMR of the previous month or even more months or maybe an average of maxes or other similar statistical metric).

Also they do not mention if TEMPORARILY the MMR tanks after too many loses (but it most probably does otherwise we wouldn’t be talking about a reset).