Many people overestimate their ability yes. Others observe patterns. Minky referenced above the devs did admit to putting 50% WR in the game. Not sure why it’s controversial, anyone is free to disagree the extent to which its prevalent.
That’s not what I said.
As you insist on twisting the words of everyone posting here, I will be lazy and just quote AltRightFrog to clarify further.
Ask someone here for the link to the Blue post if you’re really interested in exploring this further.
*Edit, OMG, sorry for calling you AltRightFrong! I’ve corrected that.
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because you’re effectually illiterate. When people don’t read things, then they don’t understand things related to the reading material.
this is the topic likely to be cited for “admitting” anything but you are the sort to not actually ever reference anything, so people don’t actually know if you’re full of ‘it’, or actually informed, or just posting contrary things to ‘troll’ the boards. Not that the options matter, this is already too long for you. And it’s not like this is the only game that people have a dev trying to respond to “forced 50” to quote as ‘admitting’ something they didn’t read.
The statement of being ‘true’ does not mean they ‘admitted’ to programming the game for it, it is ‘true’ in that it is what people “experience” as a consequence of matchmaking existing, much the same as it is ‘true’ that people “experience” seeing a black and blue dress appear to be gold and white. However, just because the ‘sensation’ is what happened, does not actually mean that that is the “truth”.
However, it is far easier for people to keep claiming that something is rigged than it is to read 12 words past their imposed limit and consider they might be “wrong” about something.
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Neither is your attitude for discussion. Thus, the point of calling you out.
Those respectfully replying to you have a plethora of knowledge for the game. They should’ve stopped wasting their time on you 30 posts ago.
You made a wild claim and still have not expressed or provided any logics or proof to those claims, even when questioned.
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I’m always happy to discuss stuff with ya, but when I start getting sleepy reading it, it might be a bit long. Maybe we could take a philosophy course together someday. I looked at some of your blue text there. I guess if you guys always believe what you’re told, that’s all well and good. Some of us reserve a healthy does of skepticism which typically holds true.
If I give any analogies, I’ll be accused of going off topic and Xeny will write a . Generally people don’t run out and tell you their business practices. Anyway, I’ll continue noticing patterns, even if people don’t appreciate it. No point in people getting so stressed, it’s fine to disagree. Maybe someone can start a new thread.
write a novella correction*
There is a functional difference in being able to tell when people are being honest about what they’re talking about, and refusing to believe anything that doesn’t agree with an ignorant opinion.
The people that tend to refuse to differentiate their opinions are also the ones least likely to actually be informed about it, but they’ll act like they know better regardless of the apparent contradiction.
What sort of effort would it take in addition to the existing game to ‘rig’ the matches as people suppose to be the case? If those sort of features were implemented, why haven’t the code-reading dataminers revealed them?
By the way, there are fans that datamine the game and have posted fixes to particular bugs, so while they can be ‘in on it’ to suit your ‘skepticism’, the bottom line is people that agree with the chronic conspiracy complaints do not actually know what sort of effort it takes to actually realize what they claim, and they haven’t thought about the implications of people not acting providing the ‘proof’ they claim is evident…
That’s why there is little corroborative evidence, constant assurance that it’s ‘easy to see’ without actually demonstrating any specifics, and it has to be a flaw of someone else to not ‘clearly’ agree, or rather, it takes some tremendous ‘class’ or unbeknownst field in some unrealized nether to possibly consider that sometimes the simplest explanation is actually the correct one, and the simpler explanation is that creators are often more ‘honest’ than the crying critic.
For stuff to be so ‘obvious’, it’s pretty damning how lazy these things have to be to not put in that iota they claim that sets apart the ‘obvious’ they can’t spell out, and yet, somehow not notice the connection between their laziness in one area to the next as being problematic in discerning sincerity. Then again, if they’re not going to be honest, it falls to reason they expect others to not be either, but it’s not like they’re going to be ‘punished’ for that sort of lying.
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Either that, or you need to improve your attention span.
I’m sure it does.
But nobody is more certain their skepticism is healthy than a person with an unhealthy amount.
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I wish it were possible to have an unhealthy amount at this point in history, regarding this topic. But, a person needs to have good pattern recognition and be willing to unlearn years of misinformation.
Hey Xeny, I see your reply too. 
The pattern to be recognized, of course, is people who claim algorithms can be rigged and then fail to provide a self-consistent model of such an algorithm and how it actually accomplishes its intended goal. Most famous and long-standing on this forum is to trumpet some silly idea of a forced 50% win rate that somehow only applies to one person and not the other nine people playing in the match, which the devs ostensibly do in order to make money in a manner that’s never clearly explained.
There’s a similar pattern, actually, of people claiming that they were banned for absolutely no reason, despite their forum posts showing that they have absolutely no sense of common courtesy.
The similarities in the two are left to the determination of the reader.
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So what patterns are you recognizing that we aren’t?
There’s not a forced 50% WR due to a win streak. The game isn’t putting idiots on your team just because you won 10 in a row. The game isn’t putting blinds on your team when you pick an AA hero to drag your WR down.
The purpose of the matchmaker is to find you matches that are fair and balanced. How does it do this? Well that’s pretty straight forward. When you win, your MMR goes higher yes? When you lose it goes lower. Makes sense right? If you win 5 games, your MMR increased 5 times and so naturally you’ll be facing players with a higher MMR because its matching you with players around your own (new) skill level. If your true skill isn’t on par with these players, or higher, you’ll most likely lose. Its not complex. If you played chess with a person of higher ELO, most likely they’ll win. Now inversely, if you were to lose 5 games in a row your MMR will drop 5 times, and then in the 6th game, if you are truly better then those players you’ll win again. This is of course assuming the playerbase is large enough.
It isn’t, so the MM has to compromise a lot more. There’s also the issue with smurfs, trolls, or complete idiots. The MMR can’t counter these things because there’s no way to detect whether or not the player behind the screen is an idiot, troll or smurf.
The purpose of a matchmaker is to find balanced matches, which only can truly work when people are at a MMR that represents their actual skill level. You’ll know when you’re at that point when you are more or less around 50% WR. Give or take a couple % points.
If you think the game and its devs are lying to you, then you just don’t understand ELO’s or matchmakers.
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citing the post of a developer who had to leave because he was incompetent is the formula for failure.
the win or loss of games does not depend on the mmr.
It depends on the synergy between the heroes of your team depending on the map and that they can play a coordinated game.
this is not always obvious.
matchmaking failure is a product of the inability to order chaos.
because you think lol has only one map.
That’s a variable, but I’d argue player skill is a bigger factor.
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People blame MM for putting trolls and feeders on his team but people need to understand MM cant control human behavior.
Also if you look at people’s mmr on HP they are divided into catagories. Someone with high account mmr can still be trash with a hero he is bad with and that way drag his team down.
And then you get the usual ‘‘mmr is rigged’’ threads.
People also forgets that MM cant make balanced games all the time. It can only make games out of what is available to it.
Thats why you get exstended que alot of times because MM have to throw alot of rulings away and soften up its search. And when it does that rainbow games tend to pop up alot more. Then you ofc can end up being the highest winrate player on your team while it gives you 2x 35% winrate trolls that ruin the game.
Nothing rigged about this game. My account got 16000 solo games and I have been able to maintain a positiv winrate for a long time.
Only time you will see people with extreme high winrate over 1000 of games is people that abuse QM for free wins with special comps opponent stand no chance againts. The MMR of those people are usually 600-1000 mmr higher than your team cause MM cant win a balanced game againts those people.
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Yeah, some players will rig matches grouping up. Wintraders are probably very rare but also a thing.
You could argue that they should have a seperate solo queue and team queue. However that would probably make queue times unbearable with the small player base.
I used to like playing with my bro and there will be odd player that invites me to a group after a game.
It can be fun playing with people but i find it weird when people smurf, group up as a 4 + stack, voice chat and flex on the lower ranks.
Plenty of people seem to like boosting their ego with wins and artificially high winrates, which is weird and toxic.
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so rather than actually address the concerns I ring up among the usual conspiracy theories, you just up and add another one to the pile.
Guy still works as blizzard, is still active at what he does, and he, like many others on the former HotS team, were transfered to other projects. Of the 3 ‘heads’ the game has had, you probably don’t know the difference between any of them, conflate details from one to the other to suit your need to complain, and then cite things about being ‘failures’ despite you doing the very thing the quote said people do: blame matching because it can’t ‘defend itself’. More scapegoating to perpetuate willful ignorance 
In addition, you then try to lambast me over a reason you have conjured (regarding Lol) that not only doesn’t have any bearing on what I posted, it wouldn’t even apply to the entirety of my post history.
I made a post pointing out the issues of people that don’t read things through, and off you go, demonstrating how wonderful you are at not reading something.
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so when are you going to start?
A journey of a thousand mile starts with one step 
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Probly your best retroactive post I’ve seen. Thankfully I started years ago. Big thumbs up, will read again.