Can't you match based on Team Level?
Can't you match based on Team Level? I'm sick of you matching me against teams that have 95 and 96 players while all I have is 91 players.
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EA_Blueberry
Community Manager
Community Manager@Coach_JohnMadden
Madden uses ELO matchmaking. It's all skill level based, team OVR do not play a factor.
Madden uses ELO matchmaking. It's all skill level based, team OVR do not play a factor.
Your pure ELO rating can get a lot of things wrong. Suggest a user with a high ovr squad havenot played H2H much then he will be decided as pretty much low skilled user and will be matched will fellow new players, or people who might just bought the game during Thanksgiving or Christmas who does not have time to build a high ovr team yet. Sure on long term, his skill ranking will be more accurate, but what about those new players who got matched and smashed during the process? You just don't care about their happiness of playing?
The fact is, user are kept getting matched with ovr 10 or even more higher than their own team. Despite their skill level of the user, that would again be an really unenjoyable game for the lower ovr rating.
@EA_Blueberry Why don't you just admit there is a flaw that a lot of player are complaining about in your matchmaking rather than just jump to the defence everytime when people are here pointing out things you can improved. That is certainly not a responsible community manager.
A Elo plus Ovr matching, or whatever things that can reduce the probabilities of people matching with much higher ovr team would be much more welcomed.
If what you said about ELO matching is true, explains to me how i get matched with this guy, MrSean_Steel, twice in a row（the first is from previous playoff run) , who is on the 25-0 WL list almost every week.
He has over 2000 wins on H2H, which is like more than 10 times of mine, surely his ELO score should be way ahead of mine, so how the hell do your system think that they should match us together back to back
Like always stop finding excuses and start fixing stuff
- EA_Blueberry@ezio23192
Do you remember if it was searching for an opponent for a while? There are other factors that can come into play when an exact match isn't precise. It may expand it's search so you can find an opponent outside of your skill range. It usually happens more often when you play in the early hours/late evening when population tends to be lower because most people are sleeping.
- @EA_Blueberry Is there a way to look up ELO like other games? How many users are playing at any given time?
There's many games that tell you when you are searching for a game how many users are online...
