Guild Wars 2

I’ve been doing some research in regards to MMR gains and losses, and come to the conclusion that the biggest factor that affects MMR gains and losses from matches isn’t actually based on your team’s average MMR vs the opposing team’s average MMR.

Instead it is more based upon how your personal MMR stands compared to your team’s average.

For example.

Team A has the following MMR spread.
10 – 4 – 4 – 4- 3 – Average MMR = 5.

Team B has the following MMR spread.
5-5-5-5-5 Average MMR 5.

If team A plays Team B, and Team A wins, the player who has the MMR of 10 will get near nothing in terms of MMR gains, but players who are at 4 and 3 will gain a lot.

On the other hand, if team A loses, the player with the 10 MMR will lose a lot, while the players with the MMR of 4 and 3 don’t lose very much at all.

Turn this around, and lets say Team B has an average MMR or 6, while Team A still has the average of 5. Nothing really changes. Even if the player with the MMR of 10 was on the team that was “favored to lose,” the match, that player will still lose a huge amount of rating, while the other 4s and 3s don’t really lose much. And if Team A somehow manages to win, the 10 MMR still gains next to nothing for the match.

I am not sure this is how the system is intended to be, but it might be a good idea to keep this in mind while gaming the leaderboards.

The alternative solution for this would be for everyone on a team should gain/lose the same amount of MMR. Instead right now we have players who gain 2 and other players who gain 30 on the same team from the same match. Both put in the same amount of effort, and both had an equal chance to win/lose the match, as the matchmaker basically tries to put together teams with equal average MMR, it should also stand that each player of the team should gain and lose the same amount of MMR instead of how the system is now.

There’s been examples contradictory to your findings.