Why it feels like you are forced to lose after 3 games

[Kaawumba-1133]

@Ravelyn-1997

yeah, i’m not saying i’m right. i seriously doubt it’s that simple, but i just think it’s pretty clear that players are not always playing at around the SR they are at. I think this is also why so many players argue that there is a huge variance in skill in gold, yet the players who hit plat say the same thing, and i bet diamond players feel the same way.

From what I’ve gathered from my experience and various forum posts is that the higher you are on the rating scale, the less variable the matches feel.

High variance (both in individual players and match quality) has many causes, many of which I list at How Competitive Skill Rating Works (Season 12) → “Matchmaking” → “If the match-maker says most games are fair, then why are there so many stomps?”.

@Ravelyn-1997

i don’t think what i said is so controversial that it needs to be proven, but it is quite easy to test that mmr moves fast when you win even without smurf level performance

A large fraction of the controversial posts on this forum are what exactly MMR does and how it behaves. Maybe you are new here.

@Ravelyn-1997

as for you disliking that i refuse to present you with data. when something can be tested in under 3 hrs very few people are going to bother making up a spreadsheet for you just because you don’t want to acknowledge their experiences

The thing is, is that you have somewhere between anecdote and nothing, and I have pages of data and analysis which contradicts your conclusions.

I also have two smurfs, but they just placed gold and didn’t have win streaks of significant length, so they won’t show the effect that you claim, even if it exists. That’s why I showed the streamer data, which contradicts your conclusions.