What I meant is “no you’re not… using mmr to group players, it groups by SR.” However, that was poorly written on my part
It pairs players by SR, if you haven’t placed before youre assumed to be gold, any wins losses after that will move you up or down in huge chunks of SR regardless of your individual performance on your 1st placements. Any placements after that is just the game hiding the standard increases decreases you usually get to SR as you pretend to place.
Yeah the is a maximum rank difference of SR permissible in your group/team of 1000SR (I believe it becomes 500sr for Masters. I often play with my friend who is plat/diamond and all it does is average our SR rank and out is into teams with that more or less is around that average.
If it does not use SR Rating to group players, this makes your rank pointless and matchmaking worse. Because lets say 30 Diamond players decide they want to smurf Plat. Now you have Plat ranked players with Diamond MMR. What you DONT want is to keep these players Plat by using their mmr for team balance because it’s not supposed to be balanced these players are the imbalance using mmr balance in this would set up adiamond tier player economy within plat. With that in mind there’s the following