Hello,
I want someone to explain why I am still ranked in silver for open queue when I am having games like this. I finished the game with 30 kills and 3 deaths with over 15k healing, 34 sound barriers, and picked up the win. This lobby was a bronze silver lobby. The next 2 were a gold and plat and a pure plat lobby. Again, my stats were pretty solid and I won both.
I get I am not the most skilled at this game. But you cannot tell me I am a silver with my stats and my gameplay.
1st (Silver/Bronze): V67QAH
2nd(Gold/Plat): WJTG5C
3rd(Plat): 937ZT5
there’s a difference between MMR and SR.
and below diamond there’s performance based SR that you can gain ontop of your normal SR.
meaning in games if you perform well you will gain more SR for wins and lose less SR for losses.
and if this is a fresh account you get a lot more SR so you will shift a lot in SR ranks the first few matches outside of placement.
and to explain MMR which is hidden is that the game have allready basically placed you in a rank and will try to keep you there or shift you into it depending how well you perform, for example if somebody is truly plat but they keep losing they aren’t losing that much SR because the game recognize that you don’t belong lower than that.
so rest assured, the placement matches have really not much bearing at all on your actual rank,
your journey have just begun.
placement games are just normal matches which start from your last season ranking. Means even if you win all of them, you get the regular credits for and climb few SR accordingly - you won’t make huge leap just because you won few matches, no matter against whom.
“Placement match” is just a stupid and misleading name for it, thats all.
Another system, like the match maker, that Blizzard could save a bit of hassle with if they just explained what was going on.
A lot of people think things are wrong when in fact they just don’t understand it, because it has never been properly explained.
As they say, most mistakes are down to poor teaching.
Yeah… “Season warm-up” would be much more fitting…