Holy Crap Lois, the Forced Win/Loss Thing is True?

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Xen linked the relevant topic, understandable you missed it in this melee.

Plz explain the 50% win rate to me

I’m not an engineer, but I can take a crack at this. The forced 50% win rate discussion is weird and complicated because it’s both true and not true at the same time, and people often inject their own biases very heavily on games to support what they think is happening to them, usually to assign blame for a loss to an external source (in this case the matchmaker) because it’s an easy thing to do (the matchmaker can’t defend itself after all!). First, let’s discuss what forced 50% isn’t. Force…

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/heroes/search?q=azjackson%20forced%2050