I have something better for Anet, It’s prove that this matchmaking is “better” (only for them). I was in red team and Anet won’t tell anything in this thread because they’re aware of mm fail.
In my opinion, if S2 Ranked was working as intended, it should be IMPOSSIBLE for lopsided matches like this to occur in diamond division. 27 – 502
It could be working as intended except the variables it is receiving are inaccurate due to outside factors. Where I’m getting at is that I believe that the no pip/tier loss you saw in divisions before Ruby is what is contributing to the issue. Terrible players can grind their way to Ruby and eventually reach that level. For all we know, the same can be done for Diamond and Legendary.
In order to get lower queues, the parameters used to match people were likely relaxed to a degree. You won’t necessarily get everyone that has the same skill level and definitely at times when there are less people in queue. You may also have players that got carried so their MMR is not representative of their skill level. You may also have players that haven’t played ranked sPvP before so their MMR starts at the default and higher than existing sPvP players.
All of this leads to MMR not being as meaningful because it cannot capture true skill as unskilled players are able to progress through the tiers/divisions with a bit of luck and mostly patience. In my opinion, ideally, unskilled players should not even be in Ruby. They’re creating a bottleneck as they’re getting mixed in to groups with moderately to highly skilled players and causing those players to suffer and driving down their MMR.
This then creates a downward spiral as this increases the likelihood of them being placed with those players in the future. This could be one of the reasons why some players were able to coast through Ruby fairly easily as they got lucky from not getting matched with many, if any, unskilled players. Then you have the unlucky players who did and are now stuck in Ruby unless they grind out so many games.
My personal opinion is that removing the safeguards of not losing pips and tiers should help alleviate some of the issue. I don’t think it would fix it. One reason being that it will just shift the bottleneck from being in Ruby to now being in the lower division. In the plus side though, the matches should get progressively better as you get to higher divisions. I would not go as far as allowing division drops.
Another thing that could be done is to allow the MMR to be affected off-season. I think that it’s handled separately from ranked and unranked which is why I say this. I could very well be mistaken. This should give sPvP players a better means to maintain, and repair, their MMR as you would expect the skill that they show in unranked to be that of ranked. Many competitions let you pre-qualify so this isn’t really outside of the norm. It’ll just need to be tailored to GW2.
