GA matching system REwork!

"Waqui;c-1760072" wrote:

"Nauros;c-1760036" wrote:

"Waqui;c-1760028" wrote:

"No_Try;c-1760001" wrote:

"Waqui;c-1760000" wrote:
A. You describe yourself as a very strategic player, but if your opponents (with same total roster GP) have 20 zetas and 25 g12 characters more than you, they apparently are more strategic minded than you.
B. Not farming hSTR until recently was a choice. Either a choice made by your guild to not work towards beating hSTR until recently, or a choice made by you to stay in the guild despite having no chance to farm hSTR. I'm sure, you (or your guild) had lots of good reasons to choose this, but nevertheless, it was a choice. You chose to not farm Traya and all that nice gear from hSTR.
C. Traya has several counters these days. Revan has a few.
D. I actually do think, that the match-making algorithm takes other things into account. I believe players with strong rosters are deliberately mixed with players of mediocre or weak rosters (with same total GP). I have no proof, but that's my experience so far.

D. isn't that the natural outcome of GP being the only basis of matchmaking and GP not being an accurate measure of a roster's strength?

If GP was the only basis and the rest was random, we would also see some groups where all 8 players have strong rosters and groups where all 8 players have weak rosters (relative to their GP). I have yet to see this - or to se posts about this. But again: I have no proof - it's just a theory, that strong and weak players are mixed on purpose.

People from those groups are ulikely to post on the forum, so the information we see is probably biased. The ones most likely to post are those experiencing some sort of imbalance.

Well, I've seen that 'imbalance' in every single GA, but I have yet to post a complaint.

But ok, we can each assume our own things. It's still only assumptions.

What you would expect to see depends on the distribution, keeping in mind that you only see matchups at your own GP level. There are a lot more players than we see on this forum, and a lot of them don’t play the way we do and their rosters reflect that. If those players outweigh players like you at your GP, you would expect to see a bunch of them in every match. You might also expect there to be matches with only those people, but those won’t include you so you won’t see them (and since most of those people don’t post here you probably wouldn’t see posts about them either). Groupings with only people like you would be much much rarer if you are in, say, the top 5%. And of course you have a very small sample size so far.