There needs to be transparency

JanosWuryon·6/16/2016, 4:41:47 AM·4 votes·398 views

Riot needs to publish MMRs of players in the match history screen. Every one trying to climb and dealing with Riot's own admitted issues with matchmaking deserves to see exactly the spread of players they have had to deal with. I understand that this information, if given prior to a game would potentially result in very toxic behavior but after the match, which involves players you likely will never queue with again can do no harm. What it can do is provide the following

1 - it will reduce negative feelings about losses. If you see that a fair match was made and you lost players can accept that.

2 - It will either prove that no one is getting screwed by poor matchmaking and wildly swinging MMRs or it will prove that exact things has happened and allow players to take an appropriate stance on the issue and further more it can only help to have this info so we can see what/if Riot is making improvements.

3 Comments

Shadowatom6/16/2016, 4:50:02 AM2 votes

Mmmm, won't happen. I don't think Riot has ever claimed their matchmaking is perfect (if they did they lied, but that's no big secret is it?) Any kind of matchmaker is difficult to create for most multiplayer games. Implementing this will take time and having the players tell you something you already know is kind of pointless. Sure it could reduce the sting of a loss a little bit, but probably not by much since it's the mistakes the player made that game that you'll be mad at, not so much their rank (even if it would explain why they made those mistakes).

Just my opinion though.

JanosWuryon6/16/2016, 12:34:03 PM1 votes

I understand that from a psychological standpoint people focus on the negative, searching for reasons to blame others and rarely looking inward. But I want to understand and see how the following is ok

1 - Im in B1 one game out of my second playoff attempt and I get a team mate in placements? with a losing record

2 - Im at about 53% win rate, even with the last 40 games of garbage teams. how can I get people with 30% win rates?

I want to see the MMR values, see how they change with a win, with a loss and how mine is compared to others.