Guild Wars 2

Even after the MMRs “settle”, you still have to play with whoever is queued up at the moment and time of day when you are. And you can still get teams like the following hypothetical match, where a top player has an MMR near 2000:

Team 1
MMR 1,800 *
MMR 400
MMR 190
MMR 185
MMR 150

AVG MMR = 545 (expected to win)
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Team 2
MMR 750
MMR 700
MMR 700
MMR 320
MMR 205

AVG MMR 535

The 1800 MMR play will probably lose, and will have his MMR lowered some, as I understand it.

So I am guessing that the leaerboard will be constantly changing week to week…UNLIKE how it has been.

So what you would do is go back to high ranks vs low ranks? And syncing?

data.4093:

So what you would do is go back to high ranks vs low ranks? And syncing?

No, not at all. I am just keeping expectations realistic so people don’t become discouraged. When the PvP population grows larger again, it will get really good. But that will take 6 months, I am guessing.

I am really glad to see the changes.

Justin ODell.9517:

No, the latest matchmaking changes will not produce matches like this.

Yes, I can see now that it won’t. The 10 players would be sorted from High to Low MMR and then dealt back and forth to teams in such a way that the 1800 player would not be paired with so many really low players.

So that’s a relief.

Justin ODell.9517:

No, the latest matchmaking changes will not produce matches like this.

The leaderboard will continue to fluctuate until each player’s deviation narrows.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glicko_rating_system

just play a game at night or off-peek time and u see he is right. after waiting 30mins or longer u get a high range of mmr. but that isnt the systems fault, at least not of the mmr.