I went from winning around 50.5% of my games

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Do you have any actual proof, or is this just feeeeeeeeeelings ? I have never seen actual hard evidence that this is happening, just mah feelin’s. In fact, it all seems kind of impossible.

• How does it maintain a large enough base of players who are “worse” at the game that still deserve a loss to manipulate everyone? Keep in mind, it needs to pull from a pool of players of a lower tier than you who also deserve a loss. If these players didn’t deserve a loss, they would be forced to win, surely? Yet if the game knows they’re bad, what is that based on? If they’re maintaining a 50%, how does it know they’ll lose? Conversely, it needs to pull opponents who are on a losing streak yet demonstrably better than you in order to create this equilibrium, which means everything I listed is actually double the effect.
• Where does this large pool of players in specific situations reside? There needs to be a huge reserve of players in both higher skill leagues that need a loss and lower skill leagues that need in win in order to fill out Quick Match’s new rigid role system, fit into groups, and check all the checkboxes to “force losses”. I thought the playerbase was dwindling, according to you? Wouldn’t a small playerbase point to a sporadic distribution instead of an intently crafted one?
• How does it factor things that MMR and PBM can’t account for? I’ve seen things like power outages and sporadic leavers get lumped into this system. Ignoring how stupid predicting an outage is, how does the matchmaker predict when someone who rarely leaves is going to leave? Moving past that, what about ‘on’ and ‘off’ games? I’ve had games where I did the most damage and set up every kill and whatnot, and I’ve had games where I fed, couldn’t land a single skillshot, and accomplished nothing. Sometimes I’ve had them back to back. It’s all about mood. The computer can’t predict which mood I’m in.
• Want to break the universe? Add the players who are “better” than you and deserve wins to your team. Send them a group invite. I do this all the time after I get stomped (it’s a great anti-salt tactic. I’d recommend it). What happens when someone who “deserves a loss” is on a team with someone who “deserves a win”? Can you cheat your way to massive winrates by playing with new people mathematically engineered to tank you, avoiding almost all losses?
• Let’s buy that this intermediately popular video game has an omniscient system that can pull all the strings and do everything I listed actually exists. Why would Blizzard implement something like that? Wouldn’t it be better for buisness to make a system that uses these godlike powers to create, I dunno, balanced matches? I mean, it’s not like it’s some kind of secret (as you said, “thousands” of people have figured this out), so what does Blizzard gain by using this?

TL;DR How does this system work, what are its limits, and why would Blizzard implement it? If you can answer those three questions, you’ve got an actual case. Otherwise, it’s all feeeeeeeeelings!

Sorry. If you all get to parrot the same nonsense over and over, I don’t see why I should have to re-type it all as well.