Any clue how MMR works?

Leti the Yeti·Jan 11, 2015·3 votes·1,024 views

in normal/draft games n stuff Sometimes i go through those 10 game win streaks followed by 10 game lose streaks or watever does this ever happen to anyone else? its starting to be tiring... 10 wins is great, 10 straight losses makes you wanna hang yourself I'd love it if matching worked abit better so I go through the win/lose/winlose Im guessing after 10 wins, my mmr skyrockets and i get paired up with people outa my league... which drops it back down after a series of losses

This is a terrible pattern that happens to me too frequently and I'm reaching peak toxicity Im worry about my mmr dropping too, People have been noticably different behavior wise as I fall Anymore of this crap and I'ma start flaming everyone like if it was a ranked game

5 Comments

Sire HippingtonJan 11, 20152 votes

how many games totall do you have? For stuff to have statistical relevance you usually need 2000+ samples in sience, and that has a reason. It takes time for the system to truly estimate your skill(and that of the other 9 players). If each player in your game played ~2000 games, you can asume the matchmakeing is prettybalanced(things like haveing a bad day can throw that off a bit) I got 4k+ games in normals, and the matchmakeing is perfectly fine there, i got ~60 soloQ games, and matchmakeing is quite strange from time to time, as i simply didn't play enough games to feed the system with enough data for estimating my skill.

Leti the YetiJan 11, 20151 votes

i'm gonna guestimate 600 ish games ;l

Tupptupp XDJan 11, 20151 votes

I think it's more that you go on/off of tilt very easily. That being said, if you win 10 games in a row, you will face sometimes noticeably harder opponents.

If you lose once, think of every game as a fresh game. Nothing from previous games carries over. You are just as strong as your opponents, because that's really what MMR is supposed to do.

If i'm ever about to go on tilt or think a champion I play is really weak, I think of times when I carried hard with them and it usually helps a lot.

Leti the YetiJan 11, 20151 votes

Tilt is one thing I dont believe in I can bitch and moan and flame all game but I dont think that affects me doing what I know I have to do ward dragon (not that it does anything).. Take scuttles for more vision (not like vision has helped).. ward shit...(see previous parenthesis) and finally gank shit and save some ass and I know for sure J4 is a certainly strong champion...not strong damage wise tho, cant kill a soul and walk out with 30 assists ;l

AtheosisXJan 11, 20151 votes

It doesn't work as far as I can tell. I get teams where we stomp the other team. I get teams where everyone feeds but me. I get games where everyone is out-classed including me. What I rarely get are competitive matches where either team can realistically win because they are of roughly equal skill. So often, win or lose, I just sit there scratching my head after matches wondering how each team had roughly equivalent MMR going in.