Guild Wars 2

I understand that, during off hours, there are fewer players to choose from. As a result the matches tend to me more lop-sided, and less profession diversity.

Are the ratings issued as a result of off-hours matchups handled differently than those during ‘peak’ hours?

If so, how?

I’m not entirely sure, but I’m pretty sure this has been discussed before. Your team and your opponents team’s MMR is averaged and that determines how much a win or loss affects your MMR.

So if you are grouped with people that have low MMR’s and you lose to a team with an average MMR that is higher than your team’s, than your personal MMR doesn’t go down as much. On the other hand, if you were on the team that had a higher average MMR and you lost to the team with a lower average MMR, you would lose quite a bit more MMR.

I could be wrong though.