Maybe turn it upside down.
What will make you quit playing, make you rage?
Any of these will drop my fun level until I quit at some point (for the evening or somtimes for some days)
How could this be managed by SBMM ?
If you still insist of having a SBMM (in unranked) a player should be able to see his match score (or squad match score). So they know they are loosing more because the got better and are higher matched!
Add + or - from the match score based on some probability to get some harder and easier games within one evening.
Make SBMM react to a premade squads - if they play often maybe even with its own score - it's just unrealistic to assume how a team will play together based on the solo players skills. (If there is one really low skill player or beginner and they show him Apex he will get stomped hard an deinstall... )
Me personally, the only thing that is really triggering is when random teammates doesnt fight and win/die as a team. Nothing worse when you literally are carrying the entire team, downing 2/3 enemies totally solo and cracking the third before getting killed and executed and when you switch to spectate, you realize that your teammates used the time when you were fighting the last enemy to execute the two you downed to loot them, instead of helping you.
I dont get triggered at all if every player in the team is trying the best to both do damage and also take damage/attention which also is important, even if you end up doing 3x your teammates damage combined after the match.
I think the really bad players are sorted into the "new account queue" up to like lvl 10 or something. The proof I have for this is that I created a smurf a while ago since my main got banned for 72h (used a bad word=) and I got 18 kills, +4k damage the very first match and the second match, I was back at the normal matchmakin. But I have also heard first hand that some people, real new beginners, manage to stay with the low levels for many games.
But anyhow, I agree. The only thing is that I dont think hours of played game is a good variable to base this on since it opens up for smurf accounts.
I get the idea but I think its a dangerous think to start messing with the "random" formation of teammates like that, with variables that players can control and affect. What I mean is that certain "unwanted" behaviors like leaving early and dropping solo most likely also have some correlation to skill. In my experience, most people who drop solo are 4k dmg players. So this would just lead to that high skill players had a bigger chance of getting each others as teammates.
I dont know for sure and this is very much just speculations and "gut feeling" but I honestly feel that the current SBMM works that way. Very often when I get teamed with two other 3k-4k dmg badges like myself, OR when I play 3-man premade with two IRL friends, one Master and one Diamond+ (S1 pred), I feel that these matches have a much higher skill level compared to "normal" pubs as a solo with two mediocre teammates.
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