This is an alt account that I started a few season ago, when my main was in plat. So while levelling up so that I could play comp, I was playing much better than a new player that didn’t understand how the game works would have. So I would expect my quickplay MMR to be quite high… I rarely play quickplay on this account but I still do, on occasion. I win like every game I play in quickplay and completely destroy the competition (because the game keeps putting me in matches with/against bronze and silver players!).
What the heck is going on? Its like the game is forcing me to newb-stomp people when I don’t even want to. I feel kind of bad when I do it, because they don’t have a chance against me and I’m not trying to kick dirt into the face of bad players or anything, but the game just continues to think I am a bronze/silver player, quick-play wise. What is the meaning of this?
How do you even tell what your QP MMR is???
If your account is new, or if you haven’t played many games, it might not have much off of, especially since I believe your comp and QP scores are different. So you will have to stomp some people before it starts boosting you up.
You can tell based on the SR of the people it puts you against. I check the profiles of my quickplay opponents and for the vast majority they are bronze or low silver
The matchmaking is basically forcing you to smurf 
.
That would be true… if they were based off each other.
QP and comp both use separate matchmaking, so it doesn’t matter if they are bronze or low silver in comp because their QP score could be completely different.
Really?! In that case I’m a GM Reinhardt in QP!!! Feelsgoodman!
Unless you’re actively throwing, getting carried by friends or something along the likes of mmr/sr manipulation, your comp SR should relatively closely reflect your mmr in other modes, especially for lower ranked people. A bronze or silver player won’t magically start playing at plat or diamond level in QP.
1 Like
From personal experience, the QP MMR takes actual level into account…when I grouped up with some friends who were brand-new to the game…it put us always in games with people that were level 1-30…but…there usually was one person above 100 because I was above 100. It seems like it takes into account actual level.
So I finally got a game where there were people who didn’t have private profiles. I played with someone who was 1000 SR over me.
So applying that to yours, you could def be playing with silver players.
More low elo players play qp and the matchmaking is non existent. Looking at people’s comp Sr doesn’t say anything in qp.
Doesn’t this depend tho? Like maybe a diamond Mercy or Reinhardt main decides they suddenly wanna try dps, so they go to QP and only instalock Genji and Widow. There’s a very good chance thay they’d be terrible at this at first, yeah? So wouldn’t the matchmaker take that into account when coming up with the MMR? Like this player is diamond with these characters in comp, but silver with these ones in QP, let’s average him out at gold MMR.
I am a low bronze, 1092 to be exact.
If MMR and SR were the same, I don’t think I would have been matched against someone with a current SR of 3,325 (and a high of 3,519)…
I don’t think that’s quite right to say.
Low and high play. 
I find plats a lot in my games.
And then I find bronzes and silvers a lot in my games.
And then I find some diamonds and masters in my games.
Quickplay is just messed up tbh.
Ehh, I don’t know anymore. Lately the matchmaker in QP and arcade is so over the place that you can experience the whole skill spectrum within one win and loss streak.
Seriously I’ve had times where I started off with plat players, 5 wins later (purely by chance) I’m thrown in games with masters and 7 losses later I find myself with silvers only to go on a 8 game win streak or something. Subsequently the cycle continues. 
1 Like
I find this to be the exact opposite for me - I’m plat (PS4), and when I play qp there are always mostly diamonds and up in my games. A master or two usually in the teams also, and many times GMs and even top 500s.
Unless you purposely throw games, either in comp or qp, there is no reason why your MMR shouldn’t be roughly the in the same area on both modes. Even if you play the characters you are not best at in qp, you should be still getting similar stats when it comes to aiming for example. And your game sense and positioning should pretty much be the same.
Also, in my opinion levels have nothing to do with it, i’m under 200lvl on most of my accounts and still almost all players in my qp games are gold borders.
But it’s definitely interesting, to say the least. I’ve been trying to learn to play Dva lately, and it’s pretty hard to do on some rounds when the enemy team has a widow with 1000+sr higher than me, outplaying me with ease.
Then again, sometimes the matches feel like both teams have all gold players playing, even when there’s players with ridiculously high sr numbers. I really don’t get it…
ive seen people as low as bronze and as high as gm in qp
we definitely aren’t at the same skill level
if we entertain the idea that the bronze/gm in qp are equally skilled it would mean that comp ranking is pathetically bad at assessing a persons rank
i think its more likely that qp just has a very lose ranking system
Your QP MMR still has to climb up just like any other MMR, but instead of starting from around gold tier you’ll start from scratch so you’ll need to play as many games as it would take for you to climb from bronze to something decent. Also one factor is that the longer pauses you have between your games the more your MMR will decay and it also slows down your MMR gain. If you play only every now and then your MMR probably barely rises.