Q&A: Sandbagging Response

"StarSon;c-2023695" wrote:

Disagree here. His response clearly indicates he doesn't think intentionally sandbagging is possible. We know that it is. And we know that it's not always intentional.

Go back and re-read his post...he didn't say that. He said he didn't see how reducing the participating GP of a guild would give them an advantage in matchmaking but just because couldn't think of a way doing that would give a guild an advantage that doesn't mean it's not possible. If "sandbagging" is supposedly telling players in a guild to sit out a TW to attempt to game the matchmaking system, that wasn't what he was saying is possible or not possible. He was simply saying that he didn't think doing so would give an actual advantage the way the matchmaking is set up....and he even said there may possibly be a way to get an advantage by doing that which he hadn't thought of.

Frankly, the question, which isn't posted above didn't make much sense because the poster reference alt accounts being used to generate tickets and for TB but supposedly being forced to sit out of TW. I've never seen anyone in any of my guilds "sit out" TW with their alts if they were otherwise available to participate...they want those rewards, particularly the zeta mats, as much as anyone else. If it's a just a low GP "ticket" alt then their GP wouldn't add much to the match-up anyway and wouldn't be much use in TB. If it's a higher GP alt, then that person isn't going to handicap their roster by skipping out on TW rewards. However, let's say they had 10 alt accounts for only raid tickets that just sit out TW. They could have a 40 person guild without those 10 alt accounts in the guild and you'd STILL get the exact same TW match-up because you'd still have the same 40 participating members whether their guild had 40 or 50 members.

There are some things though that can be done as far as including average GP per participating member in the matchmaking and basing the number of squads per zone on the guild with the higher number of participating members (instead of the lower number of participating members) which would help even out some things.