Why is normal matchmaking terrible?

Raging Inferno·9/24/2014, 3:45:31 AM·1 votes·1,177 views

Usually play ranked, decided to play normal, (I'm silver IV btw) and my entire team was silver. Cool. Four other players the were silver, fine. Then there was a plat V with over one thousand normal wins. Don't give me that normal mmr vs ranked mmr thing. You're telling me, this plat V with over one thousand normal wins has the same normal mmr as all these silver players and still dominated the game? Are you kidding me? If he/she were bad, but still in plat V casue of duo q or something fine, but this player was just dominating in lane and in game. How is that fun? Yes he was premade with a silver, but he had a better ranked than I do (silver II) and onlt 30 less wins. Could league really not find ANYONE ELSE? And it's like this, EVERY SINGLE NORMAL GAME. I'm going back to ranked. See stats here: http://www.lolnexus.com/NA/search?name=raging+inferno&region=NA Edit: Forgot to mention, the one thousand wins was significant because no one on my team was at that, one was as low as 269 wins (who was terrible btw).

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Random Task9/24/2014, 5:07:44 AM2 votes

Yes. I may not be plat but I have over 1000 normal wins and losses. Typically mmr is based upon the number of wins you are past or from your losses. Example: (not exact #s) say I was 23-121 that's 98 games under even, I'd probably have like 500-800 mmr. If it was the opposite 121-23 or 121-121, I'd be in the 1100-2000. What I am getting at is that person may have normal losses close to their normal win total which would be around your normal mmr.

In no way does normal ques account for ranked mmr. Typically for plats and up, they don't play normals very often anymore. So this person has had time to accumulate over the years. Since normal wins don't reset liked ranked, the majority of those normal wins could be from a while ago. Meaning his normal mmr stayed the same, while the their separate Ranked mmr went up.

And/or they duo'd with someone and both teams mmr ended up relatively the same.