When op.gg can't figure out your mmr because Riot's system is wack

Smalltomahawker·5/22/2017, 7:15:49 PM·1 votes·1,190 views

I love logging into this account and having a gold border in bronze. Now of course my mmr isn't bronze (or is it?) but that's not what my rank says. You can't even blame me for being a "smurf" because this is a legit account of mine that was gold last season just did placements and ended in like bronze 3. Didn't play much so now it's bronze 1. The thing that's funny is like 2 games ago if you look at op.gg my mmr siad I was "quite lower than avg" said it was equivalent to bronze 2. Then I played 2 games last night just practicing up on my Gragas jungle (my mouse right click messed up so don't want to play on main). Even when op.gg that I generally assume is close to correct said my mmr was low I still was getting like 25 lp per win & 15 or so per loss. So it obviously doesn't account for Riot's bonus or w/e lp mmr shit you get at start of the season.

It's just funny because after 2 wins it went from estimated at like bronze 2-3 to silver 4. Now in the end... it feels the same just a cluster fuck. I doubt anyone cares because they shouldn't in games but I could just leave this account all season in bronze (although mmr probably still silver) but the dumb part is it ends in bronze then if I don't play on it.

I also don't see why we have to rerank every season but that's this game's "seasons". And the fact that if I just never play on this account again it will be labled as "bronze" in season 7 when really 1. the mmr is higher than bronze and 2. The only reason it is so low is because early season placement matches. Which is funny because my 2nd account was gold 4 last season and I don't plan on touching it to maybe the end of the season. And if I don't even touch it I won't have a rank for season 7 but the account's mmr will still be around gold in season 8. So basically..... if you don't plan on playing 150-200+ ranked games one season on an account then don't touch that account or your account's rank and mmr get punished soley because "rank reset" but then there never is an adjustment later in the season unless you play a good amount.

[zombie-brand-facepalm]

I get just because you were a rank one season doesn't mean you are the next. But it also doesn't mean your whatever rank you are placed. Which is another reason this system gets f'd up over time because of player inactivity. Yes... mmr should still be the same but then its basically like why the hell even assign ranks if they mean nothing?

8 Comments

MysterQ5/22/2017, 7:19:39 PM2 votes

the dumb part is.

Next season, you have to play 10 provisionals. And you are guaranteed to be Bronze5 (maybe 4 is lucky). But when you start playing, you will still have to beat Silvers to get out of Bronze5.

MMR!!!

Eedat5/22/2017, 7:32:38 PM1 votes

Well you have a practically dead even 50% win rate playing against primarily Bronze2-Silver5 opponents and op.gg currently says your MMR is Silver 5.

I'm not sure whats confusing. Op.gg's MMR tool is just a guess. You're trying to use that guess as factual data for your argument.