Has there been another change to matchmaking recently?

Question

So since the end of the weekend just passed I began noticing that my teammates were becoming... lower in quality. Since the beginning of this season qp became a lot more sweaty due to the matchmaking becoming tighter, with myself having teammates that were ok and going against master/pred (which while sweaty and quickly ending, wasn't the worst). But recently I've noticed every game except a small few have had low level players in my game and my overall teammates skill has plummeted but still being placed against the same master/pred 3 stacks + now cheaters but that a different thing altogether so its not important. So, what's happened? Did the matchmaking change, become less strict or have there just been a large drop in players recently?

reconzero · Answer

Just my experience here:The beginning of this season saw a major change to sbmm, but it only affected people on the left side of the bell curve. Those matches typically had a very narrow skill range. As soon as you pass the peak of the curve into the right side it's all bets off. Those matches are the same as they ever were with wide skill ranges, sometime half of the curve or more inside the grey bar. If you're on the left side of the curve the matches are tight, although there are still a lot of smurfs making sure that there is no such thing as a truly tight lobby. On the right side of the curve everyone is still playing a secondary, but, as noted by everyone, the higher you go then the wider the spread and the more likely you are to get cheaters and stacks, or maybe even stacking cheaters. Nothing surprises me anymore. It's the wild wild west. And it's on the player to sort of take the bull by the horns and manage their own experience. By which I mean downward manage their own mmr. Which you have to do or otherwise end up in one unplayable lobby after another. And hoping to rank grind to some reasonable level that you attained with minimum fuss fifteen seasons ago? Forget about that. Don't even go into ranked. If you're not actively cheating then you'll hit the wall at platinum somewhere, maybe D4. Just buy your pred account like everyone else, I guess.

lobasrumpasaurus · Answer

look at this dog water matchmaking.&nbsp;why even put me solo in pred lobby&nbsp;

grannyplayz · Answer

My opinion it’s always like this I have my bar maxed and sometimes I get great teammates other times I get teammates that don’t understand anything ab the game and can’t aim at all. I think a lot of ppl have soft cheats too in this game like walls and stuff like that bc the amount of times I die to someone while I’m healing and they’re not even the ones that I was fighting and they just walk right up to me where I’m hiding to heal. That or I’m on top of something to heal and not even the person I’m fighting just randomly knows exactly where I’m at no recon legends either. Mixtape u can see replays and some ppl are hitting all headshots not missing a single shot when I’m jumping down from something than hits all body shots without missing but eventually starts missing every shot and playing bad like they have a hotkey. Who knows just very sus.

grannyplayz · Answer

Love that for you😂 that literally describes how the games been going for me in 1 picture lol

lobasrumpasaurus · Answer

&nbsp;heres another one for you. wtf is this.and they claim its better than ever and everything is fine.&nbsp;explain to me what is fine and okay with 3 STACK PREMADE pred vs plat/diamond solo queuers.&nbsp;the very next game, check this out, this time i got a masters in my party, just the two of us. And the champion squad. YOU TELLING ME WERE SUPPOSED TO HAVE FUN COMPETING AS SOLO QUEUERS VS THESE 3 STACK PREAMDES PREDS? Nah they all can be put in their own queue. so what if the queue is a minute longer. ill wait an extra minute or two for a better matchmaking.&nbsp;&nbsp;LIKE WHY BOTHER MAKING DUOS IN THESE LOBBIES