I been seeing this alot, MMR. How does it work? Is it an individual performance indicator or a simple win/lose counter that punishes your rank for toxic teams. Any insight in this will relieve some on my anxiety about reaching B1 and hoping to get out of this shiz pool
MMR = match making rating. Similar to ELO from season 1/2, it is a guage of your skill. It is a number that is modified every time you win/lose and is used to match you with players of similar skill. It is also used to determine how much LP you gain/lose when you play games.
If your MMR is higher than your current rank, you gain more LP on wins and lose less on losses. If it is lower, the opposite is true. If your MMR is a LOT higher than your current rank, you may even skip promos/divisions. If you are in division 5 of your tier and your MMR is a full tier lower than your rank, you can get demoted to the lower tier.
Basically, Cerbearus is exactly right with his description. As for how it works, I'll try to put it into a little more plain English.
A person's Match Making Rating is basically what skill-level the computer THINKS you play at. It has a lot to do with who you play with, your win/loss ratio, and many other factors. It's honestly just long math equations that tells the computer what level of players to put you with.
How does this factor into each game? A good example is the fact that in many games, you will have players with a higher ranking and a lower ranking than you. If a majority of the players in the game are a lower ranking than you-sorry to say but that means that your mmr is lower than it should be for your current ranking, and that you will lose more per loss than you will gain per win. Vice-versa, if you're being placed with players much better, then the games thinks you're competent enough and should rise to a higher rank.
In both cases, the MMR acts to balance a player's level of skill when playing league, and the player's literal ranking.
http://na.op.gg/ go to this if you want to see yours.
How do I get the computers to match me with players who can carry me instead of me being the one who has to carry the garbage tier feeders I seem to be getting stuck with lately?
