5 game win streaks followed by 5 losses? Yes there may be the odd win or loss on the climb or fall but the final out come is a fall to original rank. Why does this happen? Well, like my previous post, blizzards matchmaking is not some complicated smart system and this scenario is actually forced by their simple system. The matchmaking system aims to get you a 50% win rate when you peak.
From diamond below you are put in a separate matchmaking system one they say boosts you depending on skill and performance. cough (only goes off gold medals) cough. Then you are put in a 60% win chance game to help climb. If you loose many, you are put in 40% chance win to get extra sr if you loose.
So the win streaks and loss streaks come from this problem. You have probably reached your peak within 500 sr rank. Unless you are a smurf of way below your skill level ie. your Nan did your first 10 qualifying games! You will fluctuate around this current rank by 500 sr points. Yes elo hell is real! because of matchmaking!!
How to avoid loss streaks and climb? Obviously get better. Or have friends or smurfs to help you climb. However the smurf will have a smurf on the other side- see my previous article. But always aim for gold medals. Matchmaking is a simple programmed system and these stats are a big part of it working out if you are put in a 40% chance or 60% chance of winning! Have fun and don’t get enraged now you know what is happening.
4 Likes
They are not forcing you to have 50% winrate. Its just simple logic , once you are in place where you belong meaning you are at your right place defined by your skill, you will start having closer to 50% winrate.
1 Like
This makes zero sense man. This is a big misinterpretation of an old blue post. The matchmaking system uses mmr as a way to try and create the most equally balanced teams. There are multiple algorithms used in order to determine how much mmr you can win or lose and your performance dictates how much of that potential mmr you gain or lose. This idea of a system aiming to get you a 50% win rate is a natural byproduct. Also gold medals don’t matter. Like at all. You say that the matchmaking system only goes off gold medals but how it actually works is a known and confirmed process. It depends on your stats compared to a collection of data of the hero/heroes you played during that game. if you have a gold medal with 6 elims in a losing game with hanzo, the system doesn’t care if you have the gold medal in elims you’re going to lose more mmr than if you had no medal with 40 elims. There are obviously many other stats that go into the comparison but this is the simplest way of explaining to you how it actually works.
1 Like
Your sort of on the right path
So you mean stomp or be stomped is what should happen? Because in low levels that is all that does happen. Once in 100 matches you will have an actual balanced match were everyone seems the same and it is fun win or lose.
6 Likes
The problem w/ MMR matchmaking is that system ASSUMES you will play a certain hero on certain map. It has NO IDEA if I usually play Genji and then I decide to play widomaker…? the “50-50” match probability is now HEAVILY against my team.
Also the game is DESIGNED to keep you playing so the losses are set up intentionally
4 Likes
They put you in games you have zero percent chance of winning, it’s a ploy used by a lot of companies because they can’t properly determine skill, but need to continue to grow their playerbase. This is beneficial from a business standpoint because bad players get wins that they shouldn’t get, thus improving player retention. I’ve seen it a lot because I’ve played in gold to masters.
I understand Blizzard is business first and players second nowadays, I just wish there was a better way to control my own game experience rather than rely on their proven bad system. I’d much like more space to put players on my avoid list, for example.
3 Likes
The system isn’t rigged. These posts are based from tilt
2 Likes
I had 30 more wins than losses and was doing great. Then the loss streak started. Now I have more losses than wins which means I had 30 lost games. I was not throwing. I was playing just as good as when I had a 30 win streak.
In the loss streak I noticed I get Widow and Hanzo mains who cannot get any elims match after match. They are deranking, throwing, or just so bad they should not play a sniper hero. I ended up with four golds as a tank or support (8 Gold elims or less) which means the DPS are getting less than 8 elims because they cannot snipe or hit targets.
Every match is unwinnable. Its a one sided loss and another one sided loss. I also noticed the enemy team has smurfs and my team does not. The enemy team has Hanzo or Widow or Doom who are just killing our entire team match after match. They come in groups of two or three and I am in Solo Que.
I have even had a six stack vs my team and my team are all solo que and no groups on my team. How does that happen?
7 Likes
I have played this game for hundreds of hours across three accounts.
It’s rigged, and it’s pathetic.
6 Likes
No it isn’t. Just the community is toxic. If the Sr system is rigged. Then every ranked system is rigged
1 Like
All right, whatever helps you sleep at night, friend.
1 Like
Do you really think the system is made just to make you lose? The system places you against better players not because they think you’ll lose, but because they think you’re ready to face them and if you lose, better luck next time. Take a break and get back into it and win
2 Likes
Been tittering on gold boarder 2000 sr and kept dropping. Had to climb out of 1800 Sr. Only to lose my gold rank about 12 times this week.
Lost 200 sr just today and was grouped with people who coupdn’t snipe the broad side of a beached whale.
Like literally how do I go from 1800 to 2000 in one week then the other week end up losing all of that?
There’s no way I didn’t improve and I have 1000s of hours in quickplay.
Something is wromg here because I do not believe I deserve to be matched up with players who make so many mistakes that I can fix the situation by swapping to a third dps or healer role.
It is absurd to know that youcan do a role better when a player that is suppose to be of your skill range cannot perform just as well as you.
3 Likes
Hellloooo? Lootboxes were created to be addictive and become a grind. Meaning you are destined to lose with lootboxes.
They can do the same thing with the SR system.
3 Likes
You don’t pay for Sr though
You pay for the Overwatch experience. Random chance is part of the experience.
Yet everything is rigged to prevent you from gaining everything too easily. Keeps you playing of course.
That makes no sense. I guess every muliplayer game is rigged then
1 Like
Every other game is moderated and usually doesn’t abide by random chance or promotes toxic behaviors.
Look at Blizzard sales up the whazoo and ads galore. Not to mention the pushing of merchandise.
Tell me they don’t want money.
No they aren’t moderated. They’re all automatic. Blizzard makes no monetary value out of a freaking MATCHMAKER
1 Like