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Can someone explain sbmm to me? This doesn’t add up
So today I learned that sbmm has indeed been in since the beginning of the game, but the first iteration was everyone else together and then new players were sectioned off, and then at the end of sea...
There is a fairly widely experienced issue where it seems that the better you are as a player, the lower the skill of your teammates.
According to what a multitude of players have been testing with smurf accounts, it seems that the entire focus of SBMM is not to create lobbies where all enemies and also your teammates are of comparable skill, but instead try to make it so that each squad, and their members are of what Respawn deems to be roughly comparable skill.
In other words, 1 very good player is typically matched with 2 blazing dumpsters in order to have an averaged out skill level equal to a squad of 3 mediocre players.
What this leads to is obvious. Very frustrated players.
