Groups and Matchmaking in Overwatch

[Kaedi-11739]

@RexOverwatch-1555

I remember quite a while ago Jeff said that figuring out the SR of a group is not as simple as adding up the SRs and dividing by the amount of players.

So, how is group SR calculated. Because if group SR is different from the average SR of all the group members, that just seems wrong, thank you.

I will check the blue post archives, but I don’t remember anything specific from either Jeff Kaplan or Scott Mercer about such a comment.

However fellow power user, Kaawumba, does have it documented in this SR guide that group size currently have no effect toward determining the team SR.

How Competitive Skill Rating Works (Season 10)

The rating and matchmaking system is confusing, and a good overview does not appear to be available. The official overview (1) is incomplete and does not answer a number of common player questions and concerns. This information below is gathered from sporadic blue posts and developer update videos, and salted with my own experience and experiments, various forum threads, and watching streams. Note that since Blizzard does not give exact algorithms, I do have to fill in some gaps, or leave some i…