After grinding to Diamond this season...

I don't really know what to say about MM in any game, this one included, except for that I am in the minority who doesn't believe in using it, but the majority in that you should show your formula.

So, because I'm old, my minority point of view comes from that I do not mind playing against people way above my skill level.  Yes, sometimes that means taking it to the face but it is, albeit brutal, how you learn.  The obvious argument against me is that 'you don't learn nothin getting yer face beat in' but I disagree.  Anyway, it's not worth rehashing because it's a circular argument with me.

On the other hand, since it is supposed to be implemented, you should show how you calculate it.  All the arguments against this that I've heard, I'm sorry, sound like BS.  There is no serious sport in the world where they keep how you match up opponents a secret.  The only and sole reason to keep it secret is for a video game company to hide its flaws in its formulas, and for fans who want to believe that keeping it a secret somehow would prove their favorite game company is flawed, which would destroy a part of their identity somehow.

If you showed the MM formula, just like when you show how a player is scored, it reveals the problems.  But it also shows you what you have to do to win.  I think you're right, @hayhor , in that people are simply playing the way the system is.  And as far as MM goes...I mean, it's hidden, so I can only guess at its flaws.  Pretty sure, though, even if MM were ever fixed, that it is kept a secret means you could never prove it was really better, either.

MM's other flaw, I would say, is that, right now, this game very clearly caters to the minority of players, and Respawn has handed its developmental control to the minority who likes it, rather than expanding their game (or more correctly, they somehow believe catering to their minority of players 'who are right' will somehow expand their game 'when everyone else gets it', something like that).  I think the main problem Respawn suffers from is Apex is just a lot less fun now, and yeah, that's on them.  All the reasons you see here, but fundamentally, less fun.  The players, even at higher levels, are less fun, less creative...I'd dare say just even more boring as people and players.  A generalization, there are a few entertainers, but for the most part, very grindy, unoriginal, boring players because they are forced to be to succeed, if for no other reason.