#1 - Jan. 31, 2014, 3:58 p.m.
Well played #QQ
[Team Tourney] LOL, Y U DO DIS ANET?
#9 - Jan. 31, 2014, 6:41 p.m.
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This probably happened because you are very near the starting MMR. It happens, but we are working on improving things so it won’t happen nearly as often.
So many people in this community bash newbies…
With good reason. They aren’t very good.
One of several reasons I’m glad we’re going to keep ranks. (Thanks, community!
) Ranks should act as a decent proxy for game-knowledge, allowing us to place people better.
Newbies can learn with people that won’t dominate them, which is good because that isn’t very fun. Trolls, err… veterans won’t have to worry as much about picking up the slack. Win/Win.
#10 - Jan. 31, 2014, 6:43 p.m.
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This probably happened because you are very near the starting MMR. It happens, but we are working on improving things so it won’t happen nearly as often.
#12 - Jan. 31, 2014, 7:19 p.m.
How do you explain that when it happens to ppl that play at top 1000?
Not enough people in the queue at the same time around the same MMR. Also, the distance in MMR between #1 and 50% isn’t as wide as people tend to think.
#15 - Jan. 31, 2014, 7:53 p.m.
That diminishes the mirroring of players skills on the leadboards. Why are those players at the top when the gap with those at the bottom is low? Lucky wins can get you higher place while unlucky loses can get you down?… Pointless to show and rank us with something that is not properly stating who is this player and how skillfully he’s playing along the match…
What I meant to say is that the gap between #1 and 50% isn’t as wide when you also consider their deviations.
Take this example:
Powerr has a rating of 1800, and a deviation of 30.
Flux has a rating of 1500, and a deviation of 200.
Powerr’s filter range is 1800 +/- 30 * 2 or 1740 – 1860.
Flux’s filter range is 1500 +/- 200 * 2 or 1100 – 1900.
Even though Powerr’s rating is significantly higher than Flux’s, since Flux has a large deviation, they could still end up being matched together.
To put this another way; Powerr’s MMR is stable enough to say he is a skilled player, but we don’t enough about Flux as a player. So even though the matchmaker would try to find a better fit for Powerr, he might still get stuck with a Flux every now and then.
#21 - Jan. 31, 2014, 8:41 p.m.
When matchmaking knows it has less reliable info on a guy it should NEVER, like core rule of any kittening MMR system, use that lack of information to assume that the guy is a capable player…
We don’t assume they are a capable player by default, the filter range grows over time.
You always base matchmaking around the lowest possible number in the filter range.
You’re right, and we do do that. I left the detail out, as well as the way the range grows over time, because I felt it was irrelevant to the point I was trying to make.
Hm that makes it crystal clear for me then. Thx.
I hope so, I wasn’t entirely sure what you meant.