How many games should the average player be winning?

@BigBlackCaustic

I appreciate your feedback. I try to put myself in the mind of a dev. Obviously I do NOT want new players in lobbies with well-versed, high accuracy players. But a SBMM Algorithm which seeks to place similar skilled players in the same lobby will ultimately have said effect.

There are pros and * to SBMM. I’m a pretty skilled player (Diamond with 24k kills). I have NO business in lobbies comprised entirely of newer players. But I also wonder if what I’m experiencing in my public lobbies is fair (for players in my skill range).

Since the SBMM algorithm ramped up (the consensus is it went into high gear around November) I DEFINITELY don’t win 5% of my games. Based on what’s observable on my drops, about 80-90% of my lobbies have Predator/Diamond contrails.

The resulting experience? The games are unforgiving. One mistake and I’m back at the menu screen. Perhaps this means that I have no business in these lobbies but the SBMM algorithm has yet to place me in a lobby with lesser skilled opponents. The games in which I do manage to ekk out a win require a tournament level degree of focus. It sucks because this is literally the ONLY experience that Apex offers me. It’s almost like I’m being punished for being above average.

Again— I do NOT want to consistently play lesser skilled players— that would be boring. But I also think that players who are above average (outside of the top 500 predator player leaderboards) should have, on average, more wins per games played. But my lobbies are making it so that I probably legitimately have a lower win rate than someone with half the skill/experience than I do. That’s kind of troublesome.