Idea for changing the way provisional matches are set up

pizza is great··1 votes·567 views

As a player who has just gotten done doing my 10 provisional for my first ranked season, I would like to suggest that rather than the matchmaking system just putting other people getting their provisionals done, they also match players based on how many ranked seasons they participated in. After every match I would ask everyone in the lobby if it was also their first ranked season and if not, what were they ranked last season. Surprisingly to me about 1/4 said it was also their first season, the others were ranked atleast gold II- diamond I and in some cases even Challenger. So obviously to say I didn't do very well and was given Bronze III as my ranking. To me it was just very unfair to know that I was consistently being matched against people that had a clear advantage based on just play-time alone and i'm sure many of you felt the same when you were getting into ranked for the first time. If you like the idea upvote this and maybe Riot will put it into consideration, after all it would level the playing field fairly and give people that have been playing longer more of a challenge at the start of each season rather than simple easy ranked wins.

2 Comments

Mandang01 votes

My 2 cents on Riot's ranked shortcomings:

  1. Provisionals shouldn't be unplaced players vs unplaced players - Much smarter would be to use placed players in the placements to minimize the uncertainty.
  2. Get rid of LP - Matchmaking is already done by MMR, all LP is doing is forcing players to grind games until their LP reaches their MMR, and it has no benefits.
  3. Get rid of promos - If you need to keep LP, at least make sure the system is giving different MMR gains and losses to let it approach your MMR. Promos don't do this, so get rid of promos.

Riot likes to say that matchmaking is fair and that any unfair games only appear that way because LP isn't always close to MMR, so I think they'd save themselves a lot of grief by simply following the above 3 points.

ccseancc1431 votes

Kid your bronze 3 because you are bronze 3. My first season I was placed silver 3.

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