GA matching system REwork!

"Waqui;c-1760815" wrote:

"No_Try;c-1760265" 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.

Define weak and strong. If we define a GP norm, let's say the norm of 4M GP, both strong and weak players will be outliers and leagues made up of only them would rather be a rarity.

Good point. However, I personally am close to the 4 million GP milestone. I do have quite a bit of fluff and I clearly experience the difference when up against a 3.9 million GP player with no fluff. I'm sure it's still the same above the 4 million mark.

(Weak / strong = lots of fluff GP / no fluff GP)

Yeah well, if you define it that way I doubt there'd be a league made of only strong/no fluff since that's rather a rarer choice (even though the leaner partakers did it without exception). Most of us are within the fluff spectrum somewhere. I'm at the very high end fluff as I maxed everything as much as I can, my approx. calculation was 1.28M worth of fluff. However I'm also a G12'er and G12 costs disproportionately low GP, so I don't get matched with more G12s often. All my leagues so far was a mix in the fluff spectrum. I started right under 4M and now at 4.2M. Purely leans should be rarer at this GP, but it can devastating if I encounter one.

Btw I suggest moving right over 4M as that made my leagues noticably easier since people that tries to keep under the line are careful of their every action and more likely to be very competetive players. After a threshold it won't matter ofc.