TW matchmaking is horrible
TW matchmaking is horrible. As a guild event we have everyone join and look forward to a fair fight and creative strategy. Instead we get matched to a sandbagging guild and have no chance to win. ...
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Agreed, sandbagging is totally stupid and should be disincentivized not encouraged. Currently matchmaking is based on total gp of participating members but I think an easy way to fix this would be to just base matchmaking on average gp of participating members instead. If your guild is not active enough for TW then yes, you should be losing matches. Or otherwise split guilds into brackets so that you cannot be matched up with a guild that has more than a 5 member difference in participation. Can't believe that sandbagging has been allowed for so long. My guild 330M is being matched against a 440M guild and for whatever reason the fact that our guild is active means that we get to lose this TW.
The problem is, matchmaking used to be based on the total gp of participating members, but it isn’t any more, as there’s an element of a guild’s recent TW results also being considered.
I’ve seen horrendous matchups in both directions, where our opponent had fewer members sign up than we did but we had a huge gp advantage, and the same with us being short handed but matched with a much bigger guild who were at 50/50.
I’m all for improvements to TW matchmaking, but we need to know what problem we are solving first.
Maybe you are right, although I have not seen any evidence of this in all my time playing TW. Total gp of participating members is clearly the main matchmaking factor. 99% of the time when insurmountable guild mismatches happen it is because the larger guild has low participation. And as I'm sure most would agree, the number 1 factor in determining guild TW strength is the average roster size of a guild.
The problem that needs solving is bad TW matchups, which is almost exclusively caused by participation. Maybe some bad matchups could still happen, I know that some guilds will force everyone to sign up for TW but not care about participation on offense, which generally leads to a free win for the opponent, but usually nobody has an issue with this. The issue is when guilds are trying their best to win and are being given no chance by the matchmaking system. Forcing guilds to only compete with others that have a similar amount of participating members seems like it would solve this issue immediately, no?
I have seen examples of bad matchups when sandbagging isn’t the cause.
I don’t disagree, in principle, with what you’re suggesting to improve matchmaking. At least it’s better than the tired old forum trope of “make TW mandatory for all members”.
