Scrapper: “Frank from Research”
(edited by Laserbolt.6731)
Do rank1 MMRs fall fast?
PvP Server Programmer
If a brand new Rank 1 player starts joining SoloQ, they get a temporary MMR of, say 1000 on a scale of 1 to 2000. (But their actual MMR should be about 100, let’s say.)
So they get matched in a group of average 1000 MMR. And they happily goof around in their first match and lose.
Does their MMR take only a small hit? Are therefore are they ready to jump right into another match… and ruin that one as well?
Or does their MMR get cut faster?
Rank is not used in MMR at all, but yes they should drop pretty quickly until they start getting grouped with people more near their skill level and the losing stops. If you’ve been playing long enough that the system is confident in your MMR then you should not drop as far as they would.
Server Programmer (sPvP)
Isle of Janthir: Flux, Latch, Aegir
Isle of Janthir: Flux, Latch, Aegir
Thanks, Justin.
Scrapper: “Frank from Research”
Of course, if they are carried hard by extraordinary effort by the higher MMR players, and the new player WINS, they actually get an even more inflated temporary MMR…say 1200 now.
So it does take time for their lack of skill to be “discovered” by the matchmaking algorithm.
A challenge is: getting the higher skilled players to actually play SoloQ and risk getting a lower MMR, to make the adjustments happen.
Scrapper: “Frank from Research”