Balancing teams on weekends vs weekdays

Quil Evrything··1 votes·204 views

I would like to first bring up a phenomenon that reliably happens, and then ask for suggestions for how riot could fix it. THere will of course be idiots who claim "blah blah blah Statistics blah blah Math blah blah".

But here's the thing: statistics is only a MODEL. Real Life trumps models. If real life doesnt backup the model.. then the the model is WRONG.

So, here's the phenomenon. I'm a silver ranked player. That is approximately accurately my real skill level, so that gives you background on roughly what ELO I get matched with on norms.

During the week days, I usually fairly consistently win playing solo in norms. However, during WEEKENDS, I consistently LOSE when I solo in norms. Approximate numbers:

Weekdays: Solo win rate maybe 7/2 ? Weekend win rate maybe 1/7

I am playing the SAME CHAMPS week after week. and I have mastery 7 in them. So its not any kind of fluctuation of random "i dont know the champ this week" kinda thing. I'm guessing It is pretty much always a weekend thing of (I get matched with a premade of 3 or 4, and they FEED THEIR ASSES OFF) This has CONSiSTENTLY been happening. If riot wants to check my record on my solo-only games for the last few months.

There is something Fundamentally Wrong about matching on the weekends, for the general population ELO rating. It starts friday afternoon, and extends to late sunday.

i'm guessing it has something to do with riot's assumptions about "if someone is in a premade, they are good". but at the silver/bronze level, it is far more likely, "if someone is in a premade, it's just a bunch of casuals who dont know how to play, just screwing around for fun". So the pre-made adjustment factors are completely borked. Please, PLEASE fix this somehow.

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Alex h87211 votes

More people plus more casuals are going to play on weekends, casuals don't play as many games so theres a large chance they havent played enough to land at their appropriate MMR (I.E. their mmr is going to be higher than it should be) thus they will either under or overperform.

Also a lot of the younger playerbase probably play on weekends (as well as holidays) and are not as good at or serious about the game.

One reason i dont play that much ranked on weekends.

Quil Evrything1 votes

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.... One reason i dont play that much ranked on weekends.

Yes. EXACTLY. Me too!

But timewise, weekends are the best time to play :( :( :( So riot needs to come up with a solution to this problem

The problem being that "casuals" initially get an automated rating of 1200, which is average. Yet really, they are way way below average.! So there probably needs to be some kind of (dont match long timers with noobs) tweak to the algorithm?

Quil Evrything1 votes

Or maybe a "dont put me with premades" option? Could be really nice, since its usually the weekend 3man PREMADES that feed, oddly enough.

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