Fix ranking and matchmaking

You guys desperately need to fix your ranking system or your matchmaking system bc i am solo queuing and im diamond 2 and have been put against 3 full teams of low gm/high masters in a row now. what am i supposed to do when i am getting put against not only people who are miles better than me but also each of them have had 3 stacks.

just gone back and checked the names of the people on the teams, and turns out 2 of the matches was the same 5 stack. which makes this even more insane since I AM SOLO QUEUING and being put against this. not only that but their tank is literally top 500 in every role for almost every season.

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This. I can confirm as a Diamond player i, i am sick to death of going against stacks. Ive seen the same stacks with similar names like hispocket and hertank.
If you solo que you should go against solo que players. If you want to play with friends thats fine, but you should only go vs other groups. I dont care if this increases que times again

Curious as to why you don’t like stacks.

They could queue solo and hard pocket someone (as a good mercy will do).

Stacking isn’t some mad advantage, it doesn’t seem to be an advantage at all based on what they’ve said before.

Either way, even solo, I’d prefer to play against coordinated players that are hard to beat. More of a fun challenge.

They have had 8-9 years to try fix it but haven’t managed yet. I would not hold my breath hoping they succeed fixing it anytime soon. Meanwhile other games use tried and working ranking and matchmaking systems almost flawlessly. A recently released competitor game to OW does matchmaking and ranking almost perfectly.

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That rival game does match making in an almost identical way. Uses and MMR reference number to match people. The difference being their MMR is hidden still, OW MMR is hidden, but is mirrored by the visible rank so you know where it is.

Its progression system through ranks is different, and annoying people as you can have a sub 50% win rate and climb causing match quality to significantly drop.

It is part of the reason that game has seen a noticeable drop in player numbers in its current season.

Blizzard will never fix MMR, because they haven’t got a clue on how to. It’s been broken for a very long time now.

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How would you fix it? And what about it do you believe is broken?

… Pair people with same MMR, maybe?

Umm, let me see, people not being paired with correct MMR? Obviously?

It already does. 95% of matches are within acceptable tolerances.

How do you know it isn’t correct?

Factually incorrect.

Obvious really.

“95% of matches are within 55% to 45% win probabilities, with a hard bound of 60% to 40%. More unfair matches are a lot more common at top ranks to reduce queue times, but a mid-gold player almost never sees 60% to 40% matches”

From Morgan Maddren and Gavin Winter directly.

So you’ll need to prove them wrong.

Given what data?

You don’t know that because you haven’t seen the code for the system. And no, it’s no identical, it’s vastly different. I play both games. OW matchmaking has never worked very good. Meanwhile “that other game” does it REALLY good.

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Same with WoW as well.

Both use the same concept. Match on a MMR number.

Only difference being OW has tried to explain that rank and MMR are now aligned.

In MR, they keep very quiet on it. Doubt there’s anything dodgy going on, wouldn’t make sense to do that. But the lack of transparency will fuel the usual internet theories.

What do you hope to get when you lick blizzards ***? You post against everyone in this forum and you defend the systems so much. Take a break, get a hobby, stop defending a company against people

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Where have I done that? I really don’t care for blizzard, I think all there games have been garbage expect for OW. Why’s everyone’s comeback always “stop defending blah blah blah” when no one’s defending them. So daft.

As you’re necroing this post I had to scroll back to check what I asked… So now I’ve seen that it was just correctly stating stacks don’t give you an advantage so what’s the issue. I’ve not idea why you’ve melodramatically over reacted. (Unless someone’s asked you too)

Maybe trt get in the winnerss queue?

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Winners queue is a mythical thing.

(Winners and losers queue have never existed)

Completely disagree.

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Nothing wrong with disagreeing. There is no evidence to support your opinion, but you’re entitled to it.

Devs were quite clear. It isn’t a thing.