Hello Kaawumba,
Sorry to trouble you but i have a quick question for you.
After a loss, I understand that SR drops by quite a bit. I managed to squeeze in 4 games before the end of Season 11 and for 2 losses, I lost a grand total of 5-7 SR from 1469 to 1462-1464.
Is this normal?
The SR gain for wins appear to be more or less spot on, I guess. I gained enough from 2 wins to reach 1506 from 1462-4.
Thanks in advance.
Iâm having trouble following your numbers. Could you give me your SR after each game?
After 10 placements = 1469
Game 11 (L) = 1465
Game 12 (L) = 1462
Game 13 (W) = 1483
Game 14 (W) = 1506 (final)
Thanks, dude.
P.S. The reason for asking is because i am baffled and trying to understand why the SR losses are so low. Should it not be more than what i lost (i ainât complaining for sure)? Just trying to understand the system a little, as you probably know by now.
Those numbers make no sense. Typical gain/loss is 20-30. There is a occasional bug (less than 1% of games) in which people have extremely low gains. I donât recall ever seeing games with extremely low losses.
Though it is true that people will be less likely to complain about extremely low losses than extremely low gains.
My guess is a previously unknown bug, though it could be a matchmaking failure (you were put in a game you were expected to lose) or a performance SR issue (you were doing really, really well, but somehow your team lost it for you).
Yeah, ikr?
But the number were what they were. Hence my confusion. Nevertheless, a quick check on my stats on any of the website trackers would confirm it.
Plus, i must admit (shamelessly, sic 
), i think i did reasonably well in all the 4 games prior to Season end.
Also, thanks again, Kaawumba. You and many others have been very courteous and kind to this old man. The Competitive mode sub-forum is just so much more positive than the General Discussion sub-forum.
You guys here just make it so much more motivating to continue playing Competitive mode games for me.
Judging by the phrase âsqueeze in at the end of the seasonâ and knowing about the D.va event crashes during that time, I would give a lot of weight to the matchmaker failure theory, personally.
Alright, bug reported submitted. Thanks for the feedback, Kaawumba.
Well, regardless of the reason, if it is a bug, it should be addressed, to be fair to everyone who is playing this game.
This is exactly where you and a lot of people get tricked by Blizzard.
They told SR loss/gain wonât be affected by personal performance, they didnât say MMR. Im so sorry to delude you.
We actually donât even know if they removed bonus streaks from MMR, and I believe NO, because the only way to prevent a smurf to destroy hundreds of games is giving him his real mmr faster, and you can only achieve this by reading his stats and âboostâ his mmr faster with bonus.
So, im sorry to delude you again, you and at least 80% of the playerbase still dont realize that Blizzard is literally unable to read coordination, gamesense or any kind of ow knowledge in a match. NUMBERS are the only thing they can read and compare from tier to tier, STATS are numbers that provide to this handicapping system a crude but reasonable good info on your impact in a match and determine if your mmr have to go up or down. This is exactly what Blizzard donât wont you to know because itâs commercially unproductive.
Wake up and start trusting in what you see instead of what they want you to believe.
Yeah well said! Blizzard only cares about commercial enterprise. They do not care about fair/objective competition.
But how does that work when people drop FAR FAR below their true rank ? Iâve seen high plat/dia material player dropping to mid gold during these streaks.
I really hate this system as a support main. If you get really bad matchups and keep losing you will continue to fall in SR no matter what. You cannot carry yourself out of the hellhole of 1300s as a support because you rely too heavily on your team to do their jobs. I fell from 2400 to 1300 in the last 4 seasons because of the SR holding between seasons as a support main.
Each season needs to start fresh.
Your stats are terrible. But if you have bad teams that makes sense.
Way I climbed from 1700 to 2k was to farm my kd ratio. One game I managed a 40 kill streak with Moira. Also went 22-0 and 15-0 in 2 Lucio games. Climbed back up with 80% win rate.
As it is, youâre dying far too often.