How can people say that winrate is not enforced?

[Planar-11507]

@SlimNZ-1754

I genuinely maintain that Blizzard have never been able to setup a genuine matchmaking system, so enforce a 50% winrate by artificially setting up games.

okay bud.

Here is AZJackson with a post on this:

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…