Ok, before you get angry let me unpack first.
The matchmaker matches you by rank first and in that category it matches by MMR, accepting a WR of 45-55% with the occasional outlier.
This is public information from the devs.
We saw several MMR resets to move people around as fast as they can. We see in placements people either much higher than your rank or much lower.
So the question then is: Which visible rank is not matching. Is it yours or is that from other people?
Let’s make the argument that you are a mid plat in low gold. If there are enough mid plat player (MMR) in low gold and the system tries to achieve 50/50 WR/LR, than you get matched likely with other mid plat players whose visible rank is low gold. You in fact play a mid plat game in disguise of low gold.
I can’t prove this but I can speak from my placement games that something is clearly off. This brings me to the next point:
How would the system look if we either match purely by MMR or purely by rank?
Before anyone throw out accusation of me just complaining about my rank: I am mid diamond DPS with Sombra as my main. I am basically banned from comp right now
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The system isn’t trying to give you a win rate. It does nothing like that. But, if match making works, and gives you fair matches on a consistent basis (like their quoted 95%). Then naturally you’ll deviate towards that 50% win rate.
Unless your skill or ability to play significantly changes.
So, there’s nothing unfair about it. Just means the system they have in place is working.
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So, if you’ve got a win rate around 50% that’s proof of 2 things.
- Your ability hasn’t changed
- Match making is working as expected.
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How come that I jump from mid plat to mid diamond?
That is not a small jump, the difference between these two ranks is much bigger than between mid gold and mid plat
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If your win rate is above 50% you’ll slowly move up until you level out.
No, that quote is wrong.
It does not match by rank first. Rank is not used for matchmaking at all.
No idea where you got that quote from but its not from any official source.
Matchmaking only uses mmr. Your visible rank doesnt matter, though, nowadays they are always linked together.
Thus
This whole concept doesnt exist as far as matchmaking goes.
All that matters is your mmr. You cannot be “mid plat in low gold” from matchmaking pov.
Since the system looks at mmr only, we know the answer.
do we have the algorithm?
What would you need the algorithm for?
so we know the truth as to how matchmaking works
They’ve told us how it works.
And, your account heading towards 50% win rate is proof it is working.
the only truth is the algorithm. your interpretation of some pr statement isnt truth. and as to the ‘proof’ you think as proof, that’s not proof if you think about it. who is to say all accounts head to 50% wr, you??? theres no way you can know that.
Ah. You are one of these “they are lying to us” types.
Well. They aren’t, many reasons prove that. Firstly, best way to bait engagement… be open and transparent.
Secondly. Lying about it would be securities fraud.
Alas, whilst they haven’t told us every detail (they can’t), they have told us the core of how it functions. So we can be sure, that 50% win rate, when a player isn’t improving, is a sign the system is working.
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We do know how it works, thanks to the developers telling us.
If you’re interested read the blogs and watch the live interviews.
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You see, the issue starts with the fact that we have people with accounts on different ranks at the same role with the almost same WR.
How do you explain a close to 50% WR in these scenarios?
Second issue: We see in unranked to GM challenges people leaving ranking matches with mid diamond, but their MMR must be a lot higher internally, but what we see is that they get matched with mid diamonds and not Master player. So either the MMR calibration is still very unsure, even over the next 10 games or we don’t match properly by MMR, but a mix between visible rank and internal MMR
It’s just where their mmr sits at that given time when they’re queueing up. That’s all the matchmaking uses, and ever has used.
The modifiers happen post-match, and mmr on new account / during placements can shoot up rapidly match after match.
Remember also that during placement you see your “predicted rank” at the -end- of placements. Not your current rank necessarily. It’s why you shouldnt worry about the rank you see in placements too much, especially early on.
But in the scenario where people have several accounts settled at their rank but differs from each other, then there is either a mismatch of MMR if their is an actual deviation in the WR, or if there isn’t a noticeable difference in WR then there is a noticeable mismatch between visible rank and MMR
It means nothing but that said player is inconsistent. And playing on different account at different times, different mindset (i dont care about this acc so much so im not so stressed) etc.
There isn’t mismatch between ranks and mmr nowadays.
Nah, I don’t buy it, especially if the devs are particular confident about their matchmaking and fair games.
That someone can be at two or even three different ranks at once and then say it “it’s the players fault” screams to me bias
Dunno what you’re not buying. Matchmaking works solely on mmr, and visible rank is tied to it nowadays.
If a player cant consistently rank up, that means they’re inconsistent.