Grand Arena Championships - Matchmaking
CG said they re-did the matchmaking in the GAC and I am having a really hard time believing that. I am just over 8.1 million GP and I have 4 GL's at R7. In Round 1 of this current GAC my opponent was ...
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"Lor_San_Teka;c-2324326" wrote:
Everyone's skill rating at the start of the bracket will be the exact same. It's why this system is hot garbage. You will always be matched with folks in your division who put the same effort you do into GAC now that crystals are in play.
I wish there was nuance to the skill rating, but everyone goes up or down the same amount after each round, based solely on the outcome (win/loss). Banners don't matter.
Not true. The amount of increase or decrease to Skill Rating also involves what your opponent's Skill Rating was. From the Q&A: "We are using a modern bayesian matchmaking system, similar to those used by other modern competitive games. The Skill Ratings of both you and your opponent are taken into account in addition to the Win/Loss factor." If you look through the rankings, you'll see people with 1-3 points difference in Skill Ratings from other people. It's a small impact on the points from an individual round but eventually people will start to separate more in terms of their Skill Ratings. Unless you're at the very top of the pack, if you win more than you lose, then also you'll eventually start playing people who have dropped down in Skill Rating and vice-versa. So you won't always be matched up with people that put in the same effort that you do...that's just incorrect.
