[2021] Why do new players start at 1,500mmr?

Originally posted by Michigander555

I don't understand why the point you're raising makes it so that starting players at 0 MMR is a bad idea?

Originally posted by Nitefelina

We've had this argument before, and I still disagree immensely. I know in Rocket League you start at basically 0. You work your way through bronze and then silver. I feel this because I win my first 5 or so reset matches with ease until I get back into high gold/plat level matchmaking. Eventually you get into gold and that's where most casual players get stuck. Between silver and gold. That game specifically I'm gold/plat and every game feels like my skill level.

Making Smite's MMR start at 0 just means your average player won't be high gold low plat, they'll just be in high silver and low gold. Your new players will be in bronze with the really bad players and your diamond will feel much more like a diamond. Plat will be more of that mixed gold/plat feel vs what we have now with plat/low diamond feeling like a gold/plat setting.

This season I have waltzed up to 1900 MMR and dropped all the way down to 900 MMR and everything in between multiple times. It's 100% based on if I get the trolling or new team mates or not. Even in my 1900 MMR games I was in with brand new players thus causing the slow and steady fall back down to 1500.

I feel like if you guys just did a hard "reset" for "new" players and new being whatever you decide is the number of conquest games while leaving everyone else alone then it will settle out in the end. Players like myself will either get up to plat/diamond or just have the realization we are terrible and fall down to 500. Either way, the concept that ELO Hell goes away because a vet player simply can't play against a new player unless they really are that bad.