Match Making Rating (MMR), Handicapping

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There is no such quote.

well, maybe i’m wrong and just imagine it, it’s been two or more years… but where do you think that floating number originates?

clearly not by simply adding and subtracting numbers each match, or you could just use SR as matchmaking rating

the matchmaker still calculates the probability of a match being won and makes it as close to 50% as possible

The entire point of 50/50 is that you need to factor in groups. If Competitive was solo-queue only, then it would be dead-easy to create that 50/50.

That’s also why SR still exists as a public face: to make things easy to read and set an easy-to-calculate line for group restrictions (1000 SR spread, 500 SR if highest player in group is at Master, 250 SR if highest player in group is GM plus limit of 2 players in a group).

grouping almost makes no difference

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