Overwatch the most rigged matchmaking on earth

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@anon71371430

This is how it should be.

I went down a thought exercise based on flawed assumptions in the OP’s statements. SR and MMR do not drift apart except in the cases of DC penalties and Decay.

How Competitive Skill Rating Works (Season 16)

The rating and matchmaking system is confusing, and a good overview does not appear to be available. The official overview (1, 48) is incomplete and does not answer a number of common player questions and concerns. This information below is gathered from sporadic blue posts and developer update videos, and salted with my own experience and experiments, various forum threads, and watching streams. Note that since Blizzard does not give exact algorithms, I do have to fill in some gaps, or leave so…

@anon71371430

Speaking about smurfs in particular: I was using the termn “outperformers” to avoid the termn “smurf”. I think a smurf would be a player who’s main account is multiple ranks higher than where he is currently playing.

Alts and smurfs are different. Alts just haven’t gotten to where they belong yet. Smurfs have had their SR/MMR intentionally manipulated, and damage everything about the matchmaker.

Fortunately, in Silver+ the Alt/Smurf problem is small enough to only impact people occasionally, and it’s random whether it’s a positive or negative impact.

Smurfs unfortunately have a very outsized impact on low bronze (500-800SR) where the thrower trolls go to destroy games endlessly. The population is so small there that they have a significant impact.

Repeating: SR/MMR do not drift apart even for throwers. The matchmaker does not do anything but attempt to match 12 people with the same SR/MMR into a game.