Hello, Average gold player here. Recently ive began playing competitive more and more grinding out through to late gold, right before i got into platinum though (my goal for this season) i had 3 games in a row where most if not all of my team left except me. I was excpecting not to lose much if any SR at all as a 1-3 v 6 is impossible but i lost 30-60 throughout all 3 games resulting in me losing most of my progress (including placements) due to other players leaving. Knowing the devs they likely do not care about low ranks and only about OWL at this point but when the game is impossible to win at all, losing days of progress really puts you off from playing at all.
if your progress is measured only on your SR, you’re focusing on the wrong things.
Yes leavers are irritating. But nothing you can do to stop it, or fix it. Just got to learn to improve and then sr will come later.
I would like to disagree here in a friendly manner. The deduction of SR points should be more moderate in an outnumbered situation.
Yes - you can’t really do anything about leavers or poor internet access. But you can be fair and more moderate when deducting points in such special circumstances.
If they can work it out, and agree what a “special circumstance” is, I’d agree that would in theory be fairer.
But a flat -50 for everyone is about as fair as you are going to get. I don’t think they can detect the type of leaver without installing software on your machine, and people won’t want that. Only way to detect someone pressing Alt+F4 would be to have key tracking… Do you want key tracking software hiding in the background on your PC. One dodgy member of staff and that system is completely compromised.
As with most systems they have in place, people will always ideas about what they think is better. But there will be a reason they haven’t changed it, and that is probably because there isn’t another system that offers huge benefits without the massive cons.
I had already agreed with you and I also agree with you on key tracking. It is only about the moderate downrating. Here we believe that something could be done better - in the aforementioned special (6-x) vs 6 player situation for integer (0 <x <6).
ofc players are going to leave is reflection of how bad matchmaking system is . if blizzard even remotly cared about the game they make changes to matchmaking . and so many player would be in angry and negative position …
What does the matchmaker do wrong?
It is based on a simple number system, be it SR or MMR… What more can it do?
you don’t seem to know anything about math and algorithms
Sure. You can think that. But I do know lots about MATHS (or mathematics, math is a lazy Americanism and isn’t really a thing).
Anyways.
SR is not a very complex system. Nor is MMR, and the match maker just picks 6 people where the average SR or MMR of the 6 players is roughly the same.
There isn’t much complex to it.
But as this is about leavers… They treat all leavers the same, and they treat all match losses the same.
Doesn’t matter if your 4, 5 or 6. A loss is a loss.
TIP - stop worrying about your SR, focus on being a better player. Then these things won’t matter as you’ll be winning more anyways.
auxi here is a tip ignore him .like i do sry bring this none to ure post .