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Transparency Of MMR calculation. Why not ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Occams Raiser·4/14/2015, 5:21:56 AM·6 votes·635 views

I saw a thread about two guys that started 2 fresh accounts and played their prelims together for all 10 games. When it was over they were sorted into two different divisions. We all wanted to know why. I think it is because there is a flaw in the system when it comes to calculating KDA, cs per minute, and win\loss rates as it pertains to lane assignments. If we knew that the calculation hurt particular roles, we would see a shift towards the highest rewarded role. Who would play support if you found out you advance slower because of it? What if it was vise versa? Everyone would want to play support to rise faster.

What do you think? I think it is bigger than shaming people or getting shamed by your score. That sounds like a BS reason. Realism or cynicism... I don't know. Everyone doesn't need to see it but it would be nice for me to see my own and know exactly how to make it higher. If I don't want to share it that is up to me.

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Matthias91194/14/2015, 5:23:34 AM2 votes

I think it is because there is a flaw in the system when it comes to calculating KDA, cs per minute, and win\loss rates as it pertains to lane assignments. If we knew that the calculation hurt particular roles, we would see a shift towards the highest rewarded role. Who would play support if you found out you advance slower because of it? What if it was vise versa? Everyone would want to play support to rise faster.

Riot has said over and over and over and over and over that no in-game statistics are taken into account for MMR gains and losses.

I saw a thread about two guys that started 2 fresh accounts and played their prelims together for all 10 games. When it was over they were sorted into two different divisions. We all wanted to know why.

On a fresh account your starting Ranked MMR is seeded with how you've been doing in Normal matches in that queue.

Worst Mid Ever4/14/2015, 6:09:13 AM1 votes

i went 9/1 in placements on this account in season 3, got placed silver 5 and hardly played ranked on it after that, finished my season 4 placements 6/4 yesterday and got promoted from silver 5 last season straight to gold 5 with a gold 2 MMR according to op.gg and the players in my games, i wish they would just bring back the old elo system

BLU Medic4/14/2015, 6:26:54 AM1 votes

In order to do the test properly, you'd have to get two people to play games with each other all the way to level 30, THEN do placement matches together to see where they end up. Because currently your hidden MMR seems to be affected by normal matches and other game modes, meaning that the two players would have different MMRs to behind with.