[2020] Poster child game of why there should be a skill gap check

Folks,

I feel like some of you are spending FAR too much time worrying about stats and not enough worrying about just playing the GAME.

If you are trying to analyze constantly the possible chances of a win based off the statistical norms of a team that is only 24 players deep on a server that has something like 100,000 players or more with from 9000-20000 players playing at the time you dropped with the average server W/R at 47%... you're no longer playing a game..

This weekend I had several battles where someone I was in Div with had MMM and they immediately said we were going to lose due to the stats of the enemy team, and we won. And the only reason that divmate didn't yolo or play differently was because I was calling them out on it. This often times is seen too, you think automatically you're going to lose, so you play differently and actually HELP the loss come easier....

If you focus on your own game play, how you can best support YOUR team, how to get the W and less time on how horrible this person is or how amazing that person is, you'd find that the game might go back to being a..... game....

-Hapa

But that is the point.

We are NOT looking at doing skill based MM because the metric that you have to figure out to build it would be far too convoluted and difficult.

Rules like "If your W/R is X match vs players that have W/R of X" and now you sit in queue for 3mins or more trying to assemble a team from that.... This is literally one of the main reason we do not and will not look at skill based MMing of any sort currently.

My point is, if you just play the game.... and realize you will have losses you will have wins.... Then it stays a game.

If I am able to take a battle on a team with "avg" or "below avg" players, verses a team with purples (multiple battles) and get the win... I'd say that you skill based MM is not necessary.

-Hapa

I did read your post, but I think what you do not understand is that a few things would have to happen in order to institute changes like this. Though you think changes might not need much work, ANY changes to MM have serious sweeping effects on MM overall. This is why all the changes we have made to MM over the past 2 yrs have been VERY small in nature and over time.

-Hapa