Ranked is broken

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Force 50% winrate is a myth debunked by Blizzard:

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…

A change in ranking system to use personal performance being no good because of “stat padding” is also a myth debunked by Blizzard:

Performance Matchmaking explained (with Lead Designer Travis McGeathy)