Honestly it just feels like a scapegoat for balance. "Uhhhh a secret hidden stat that ruins everything"
Seems like an easy fix? match bronze to bronze and gold to gold and let them climb/fall to their respective ranks?
Or is there something my primitive reptile brain can't comprehend
They use mmr because it creates matches that are more balanced than using rank would be.
Making games where everyone is the same tier and close in divisions is still MMR. Unless you just randomly put people with and against one another, you're using MMR.
So there will be prefixed lp gains? So smurfs will climb as fast as hardstuck 500 games players? Sounds frustrating for both sides...
Because there are players who would trounce others simply based off raw natural skill.
Let’s use real life examples, when I was in my senior year of high school on my football team, we had a 6’5” 220 of raw muscle 9th grader who is now playing football professionally. Because of his raw size and clear skill over literally every other 9th grader, he wasn’t permitted to play with them and was instead moved straight to varsity, same concept.
The point of MMR is supposed to be based on your own skill, here is where the system thinks you should be.
Yeah it’s time to overhaul the whole system
How I see it: If you are lets say Silver...you should play against silver to prove you not only deserve that rank, but to also Advance from it. But because of MMR, you end up going against Diamonds and Plats sometimes (rather because they smurfed it, or that's where you do belong.
The problem with this is the fact going an advancement is always a coin flip because you are going against Skill lvl (decided by MMR), and not based on Rank. Its like saying, "Want to be Gold? Take on on these random plats and challengers for a 50/50 chance to prove you deserve to get into Gold, but you lose more LP then you do Gaining, enjoy."
It is like saying because a 10 year old is good in little league that they can go against a high school players because of their "skill" instead of playing against those around the same age range and rank of Little League.
P.S. For those who don't get it: The point of rank is to fight those of the same rank to advance, not give someone of your skill level who may be in a different/much higher bracket.
