5 years ago

Rivals Matchmaking

EA fix your idiotic matchmaking system. Aijo has said in the past that the search expands outside our division after 20 seconds. Clearly incorrect. I just played a guy way above my division after a 5 second search. Blueberry followed that up last year by saying this wasn't the case, which leads one to question what exactly the matchmaking system even does. Why are there divisions? Do you intentionally pit lower division players against higher division players? Do any of you even know or understand what the system does? Is this supposed to be fun for either player? Are you just handing out easy wins to go along with the tiered rewards?

No video proof, as a simple screenshot should suffice. Lost the game 11-0 and yet didn't lose ranking points.

20 Replies

Boehmdad3
4 years ago
Played my 1st Rivals today. My team is mid 80's. I got match against a guy playing as Toronto whose lowest player was 96!!! He had Legends and everything and absolutely destroyed me 9-0. I think I made it pass the blue line twice. Not sure I'll ever play Rivals again.
CL1693
4 years ago
@Boehmdad3 Any chance it was on Xbox and the team was something like “Suckerpunch” with Carey price in net? Same thing happened to me. First rivals game this year and match with a team absolutely stacked. It makes no sense
Boehmdad3
4 years ago
No, it was PS5, and never got close enough too see who they had in net lol
TylerDurdenGame
4 years ago
@EA_Blueberry wrote:
@Davanial

This is not by design and was flagged down to the team for investigation.
It is march 2022 now as a div 9 player I get matched vs div 3-4 teams 90% of the time. 0 points lost when I lose in rivals. Will this ever be fixed?
EA_Blueberry
Community Admin
4 years ago
@TylerDurdenGamer

Yes, the team is actively looking into this. I know it's been a while and we apologize you've had to hang in there longer than desired. Hopefully the can get a successful patch for it in the near future.
CL1693
4 years ago
@EA_Blueberry Yes a nice timely patch that you’ll need to pay $70 for called nhl 23!
EA_Blueberry
Community Admin
4 years ago
Via this post today:

Hey, HUT Community.

On Friday we implemented a fix for an issue that was occurring in Rivals that caused players to match with others above or below the intended skill rating thresholds. Our dashboards indicate that it has significantly improved matchups and will continue to monitor the situation.

Thank you for your patience surrounding this and please let us know if you continue to experience any irregularities with matchmaking.
BeRadstreet
Rising Newcomer
4 years ago
This has not been fixed. At all. And is more than mildly irritating. I've queued for 15 games so far and had to quit 15 games because the LOWEST OVR team has been 95. How can you guys come backhere and say this was fixed?
RSall14
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@BeRadstreet wrote:
This has not been fixed. At all. And is more than mildly irritating. I've queued for 15 games so far and had to quit 15 games because the LOWEST OVR team has been 95. How can you guys come backhere and say this was fixed?
It was fixed, you're playing in the middle of June. Everyone who's still playing HUT has a stacked team. Having a high ovr team doesn't equate to skill level.
Eemil5219
3 years ago
Can someone change the rivals system it sucks.
I have won now like seven games in a row and still havent got up in division. Please there is no sense.