Skill rating in gac matchmaking

"NS4Life1979;c-2378647" wrote:
i am still not sure why anyone is complaining about matchmaking, there is no such thing as matchmaking, it is as harvestmouse above said, you have a rank, you can see your rank in the leaderboard, you can even see the 50 or so people around you, and the points differences between them and you, and then you get drawn against the 7 other people around you, with the same score as you.

if you are ranked at 999, you are getting drawn against 998,997,1000,1001 etc etc.. the scores have been accumulating since the GAC system was adapted to this new format, it is not a case of... oh well he has 6.4m GP and he shouldn't be this high up so lets put him up against a load of krakens that he has no chance of beating.

And yet nobody ever could explain how the players with the same SR are "ranked". How is it decided that if you have for example 1000 players with the same SR, who gets to be on top of those 1000 and who is the last. Is it just randomly placing you? Is there some code to sort them or not?

Since it is important whom you are placed with around you, because they will be your next opponents, I say it would be good to know how we are sorted.