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Rework the MMR System

I am Nigwin·7/14/2016, 2:38:38 AM·1 votes·311 views

If I lose, even though I played my cards right, and did exceptionally, my MMR just drops down drastically. It feels like if you lose once, you're gonna lose more, and if you win once, you're gonna win more. I'm not trying to say my teammates aren't playing effectively, but that's what my loss streaks feel like now. Basically, a loss is just MMR drop for the entire team instead of individual MMR changes based on performance. These games after losing one just gradually just get worse as I keep getting paired up with teammates who just perform worse than the previous. And it just makes my Solo Queue experience less enjoyable and neglects my interest for this game.

I understand that this is a teamwork based game, and I am happy to cooperate with my team; however my team doesn't want to cooperate on most occasions and I end taking another loss. I also solo queue because I don't have many friends who play league anymore; mainly because they've either moved onto CS:GO or Overwatch (which I might do) because the game became not fun based off of similar experience.

TL;DR: Make MMR changes base off of performance instead of wins and losses because every game either gets gradually worse or better depending on situation.

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9 Comments

Cyst7/14/2016, 2:42:49 AM1 votes

The whole MMR is silly and pointless

Your skill does not equal your teams skill.

So win or lose MMR shouldn't be effected. What really should happen is individual score.

SmokedAlmonds7/14/2016, 3:03:38 AM1 votes

Your MMR dropping actually has the opposite effect. When you lose your MMR drops, which causes your team AND opponents to have a lower MMR the next game. If you did not for some reason get worse at the game between that time you will be proportionately stronger than the rest of the people in your next game.

Sure, teams don't cooperate sometimes, but that happens to everyone. And it also happens to your opponents. So either it is happening to everyone at a similar rate, or you are the cause for the lack of cooperation on your teams. Your rank is a measure of your ability to win games, with everything that entails. A single game doesn't have a significant impact on your rank. If you perfectly broke down every action into its value towards winning then you would end up in the same place as just counting wins/losses, except the score from an individual game would be much more meaningful, but after 100+ games you will be in the same place.

Magical Player7/14/2016, 3:46:02 AM1 votes

what would you rather have? without mmr, how can we determine whose better?