Their Guild- 46 Trayas. Our guild- 3 Trayas.

"shaggybevo;c-1630673" wrote:

"cboath7;c-1630318" wrote:
Think of it in mathematical terms.

A match requires 2 teams, obviously.

If there are 13 total guilds who would be evenly matched with 43 Trayas - that's 6 matches and one left over. So, they're going to be matches against someone below them. I don't know where they break down as far as matches go, but it's still possible.

There have been much worse matches (nearly 2-1 GP differentials), so how that algorithm works is unknown.

Lol obviously it's possible; it happened to us didn't it? :) If I can point out that in your model, it still doesn't make sense that a guild with 46 Trayas got matched with a guild that has 3 Trayas unless there are no other guilds out there with 4-45 Trayas.

I'm not trying to say that other guilds haven't gotten worse match ups as far as Total GP comparisons go. Far from it (we've personally had much worse Total GP comparisons with past guilds). I simply wanted to illustrate what is clearly a flaw in their matchmaking system based on a developer's explanation for what is a "primary consideration" for matching guilds. If we (as players) stop posting about our concerns, the developers may think that we are all content with how things are going and see no need to further improve or tweak their algorithms.

Fair enough.

It depends on how they hack up their groups though. I'm in a (now) 45M GP guild. At the time of this example we were around 35M and got matched against a 50M+ (somewhere between 50-54.9). I dare say that put us at a bigger disadvantage.

I'm curious as to how it's done frankly. It's almost as if they take all participating teams, split them up into a handful of groups and then match between those teams. I wonder how often a team qualifies and doesn't get in? Should happen frequently you'd think. The odds of an even number of teams applying every single time is zero.

I would actually expect more of the imbalances to be on the upper portion, though. There simply have be fewer high end guilds, therefore the odds of a higher team getting a lower one (in the upper end segment) would seem to be higher.

Wouldn't surprise me at all to find out they have a massive formula and there's a misplaced parenthesis somewhere that skews the match making :)