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Matchmaking Changes

RyansOpsd·7/10/2015, 7:41:51 PM·1 votes·385 views

I would like to offer ideas for the matchmaking system and how to match players up. One idea is that players that have been on a loss streak due to toxic/feeding players or had a series of bad games should be placed on a team that has a group of players that is on win streaks to break the loss streak. This would fix a lot of raging players since if you are a on a loss streak players are basically placed on a team that have a similar win/loss which normally means you get placed with players that are on loss streaks as well. This generates more reports and a much more toxic community. It is not fair to players that have a series of bad games that they cannot come back from it because players that play bad get stuck with team after team of players that play bad it should be evenly spread out between teams. For example, instead of being matched with one player that is doing well and the other four players are on loss streaks and more than likely raging it should be three players that are doing well and two players that are not doing very well. This would help balance out the win/loss problem that is happening in all tiers of matchmaking ques besides high diamond/master/challenger. Instead of basing the entire matchmaking system on the same number of wins as someone else it should be based on recent match history. When a player that gets demoted from platinum four to gold two as I have it is a endless spiral of bad players I get stuck with. I do play bad some games but that is how the game is designed you cant win them all but being consistently placed with players that play bad is not fair.

                   Another idea would be that instead of dropping a players MMR like is being done now you could drop a hidden MMR that works behind the scenes to determine what rank of players you go against.  The decision to drop the quality of players that you are placed with based off of losses is not really fair and it creates an almost infinite spiral of losses that cannot be carried by players.  Players who are in platinum five or gold five or silver five ect, should not be placed with players that are in gold five,silver five, bronze five because of the considerable skill gap between the rankings.  This current system that bases your win/loss ratio over recent match history is what is creating all the hate about matchmaking.  A player that does well in platinum against other platinum's should not be forced (If they go on a loss streak) to be placed with players of a lower tier that have a lower skill level.  

                   Another idea would be instead of making the point system make it so you can lose twenty five points for a loss but when you win you only get fourteen to eighteen points is basically making it extremely difficult to get back to being even.  It really does not make sense since the current system is based off of win/loss so if a person is positive ten or positive five and they lose twenty five points and only gain twelve when they win is messed up.  Well these are my ideas I doubt that any of them will be considered but I can hope that some of the ideas here can be implemented or at least considered.

2 Comments

Deep Terror Nami7/10/2015, 7:47:23 PM1 votes

Artificially increasing a player's chance to win doesn't seem right to me. You should always get placed in your MMR range and streaks not have an effect. Having a streak may change your MMR drastically, though, so you might be playing in a different group than you were before your win/loss streak. Imo, dealing with tilting is the player's responsibility and not matchmaking's.

I only read a few sentences in though, so you may have considered some of this already. You should really break it up into paragraphs for readability.