Fully agree on all counts! I suck at posting, shouldn't have tried, I knew I wasn't going to give you the answer but I thought maybe this time I'd land a star trek metaphor. Neeeeeop! Anyway thanks for reminding me to stop posting in here.

hi i worked on this when i was at respawn and i worked on mmr at blizzard too.

you guys are lucky apex is putting out much more detailed behind the scenes of the data/decision making than when I was a data lead (s1-10ish).

how and along what exact specific lines your score is determined is fascinating to work on as a dev and theorycraft about as a player. But there's a risk that measurement methodology impacts the thing measured - and when I say "there's a risk", in the context of gamers that becomes a near certainty.

Tell me what gets my number higher I'm optimizing for that. And if a good % of a server is doing that you are now obligated to, in a game theory sense, otherwise you're leaving points on the table. I mean don't you want to win?

Are you very into Star Trek by chance you know sometimes a first contact happens that really ancient aliens up a civilization. It turns out knowing too much too early (via contact -> then observation) is a p...

hmm I'd probably need some reasoning behind deleting matchmaking, since no matchmaking means no matches. Do you mean make every match comprised of fully random players? How does that address player counts? Paint me that story.

Hiding Rank is intended, but hiding Squads left, damage, Kills, Assists, etc is a bug.

That would be a cheater removed from your match :)