How Competitive Matchmaking and Ranking Works (Season 28+)

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@Kaawumba-1133

The game uses MMR to determine whether a match is fair, and attempts to match teams such that the game is fair (each team has a 50% chance of winning).

This is precisely the issue people have with the system.

The author so innocently glosses over it.

@Vurg-1970

OK, I’ll quote it for you…

@Kaawumba-1133

As a player plays games, MMR uncertainty (for the role played) goes down (with a hard floor for active players). If a player does not play for a while, MMR uncertainty goes up. The higher the uncertainty, the more MMR can move in one game11.

@ScottMercer

Are you playing consistently? New accounts or accounts that have been inactive will see larger magnitude changes both upwards and downwards. This settles back to normal as you play additional games.

I believe that alludes to the original issue. That is indeed how it works, and it’s precisely why people are fed up with it.

You don’t see the problem.

The certainty component, as hereby referenced by you, is what’s skewing games. You gloss over it and call it ‘fair’ without taking into account how that eliminates the need for player skill, and replaces it with a rough estimate of chance.