MMR has no place in comp. SR is all that is needed. MMR is rigging.
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First you explain how itās unfair and any different than SR.
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so how is adding more stats to your name less fair than determining your skill by an arbitrary single number?
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The only purpose of MMR os to manipulate matches. If SR were accurate, there would be no need for MMR. If MMR is used, SR can not be accurate.
They should drop MMR and let SR settle itself organically.
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Decay is a big reason. If you had 4200 players decaying and playing in 3000 SR games, itād be quite boring
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exactly the opposite is true
and all these mmr hate threads are just another excuse for not accepting youāre not as good as you think you are.#
edit: just to be clear, mmr is what allows you to still get to your true rank on a ~50% winrate by adjusting your SR gains and losses accordingly. and you will always have about 50% win rates because the matchmaker is actually pretty good at finding people of your skill level.
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How about you explain how it is unfair? How about you explain how it is rigging?
You are the one making a claim. The burden of proof is on you to substantiate that claim
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Iāve seen it in gold playing with a GM and a diamond on their gold alts.
Suffice to say that we got team mates that were a bit āspecialā. We got a bunch of low Mmr humps to offset my friendsā massive Mmr scores.
This is one reason, as well as busted new placements, that gold ELO skill levels so busted.
Gold is called the ELO of mistrust for a reason. Youāve no idea if your 2.3k team mate is a plat level player or a bronze level player or anything in between.
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SR is accurate because it follow MMR. You are right now asking for SR to be less accurate
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MMR (at low rank) gives you extra SR on wins and reduced SR on losses, if you are better than the average player at your rank, playing your hero in your map.
As such, it minimizes bad luck effects of ābadā teammates. Of course if you are not actually better than your rank youāll get less SR on wins than you lose in defeats, thus helping you (yes, helping you) to get to your appropriate, lower rank.
At high rank MMR matches you with people at your actual skill level instead of your decayed SR. This is so diamonds donāt go against decayed gm and only against smurf gm (it cuts down the ammount of smurfs).
The fairest system that could exist would be complete randomness.
Manipulating matches is unfair.
Blizzard does this to encourage players to stay.
Of course, developers deny that, because otherwise the game would no longer be considered a serious competitive game.
Look at the facts and donāt listen to what players and developers say, they have their reasons why they donāt say everything.
If there were detailed statistics for all matches, for the complete player base this would be revealed immediately. Therefore this feature will never be implemented.
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No oneās manipulating matches to force you to lose. Calm down tinfoil hat.
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I said something about the facts and you want to address me personally?
I wonder why.
Are you afraid that your MMR Farmer strategies will show up in the forum at some point? 
You can buy a Diamond Account for about 40USD.
These farmers have a good understanding of how the matchmaking system works, itās intransparent and can be very unfair if some playes know certain aspects of it. That is the official reason why Blizzard wants to keep the system intransparent. (Official Post) Thatās a fact.
Iām GM and have multiple masters accounts. Iām not an MMR farmer. Iām a good overwatch player.
If youād like me to show you my deep understanding of the ranking system and how i abuse it (aka how to win) Iād be down to do a vod review for you and show you what youāre doing wrong ![:slight_smile:](https://d74zh8edaijub.cloudfront.net/en/overwatch/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=6" ":slight_smile:")
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These farmers are better than low ranks so they have no problem boosting accounts.
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You must have misunderstood me. I just said that the matchmaking system is not completely obscure to everyone and that some parts of it are already being actively exploited. You certainly donāt want to have a gold-level player on your team. Then you should be interested in the matchmaking being fixed.
Citation of your source?
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āSR closely chases your MMR up and down and is a more ādigestibleā number. With the exception of top players who have decayed, MMR and SR are closely linked.ā - Jeff Kaplan
And I wanted to make that clear earlier, as soon as you know how to boost MMR and the farmers Iām talking about know that, the matches will be adjusted like this.
Complete randomness, if Iām not misunderstanding what youāre trying to say, would result in the following being possible
SR 4520 - 3150 - 1140 - 2200 - 4230 - 3900
vs
SR 850 - 1740 - 1150 - 4030 - 2750 - 1740
Is that acceptable?
If thatās NOT what you were trying to say, and what you were trying to say is that the matchmaking system can differentiate between āgoodā and ābadā players at a single given SR, you would need to cite that source. Cuthbertās topic is not a valid source, by the way.
Yes that would be acceptable, because these numbers are mostly wrong from the beginning. You are assuming that you already have a system that has been able to properly evaluate the player skill. But this is not the case right now.