Guild Wars 2

I started playing this season on 2 account my main and my alt acc both accounts started in gold 2 even though my main had 9/10 wins and my alt 7/10 wins. That itself did not bother me that much but i played around 100 games on my main and got stuck in gold 3 for various reason (note that i got around 11 points for every win and lost around 12 for a defeat).

After those 100 games i did not really want to play anymore because it felt useless but 2 days ago i decided to try on my alt acc again and now i have reached platinum 1 after 3 days. While i only got 11 points for a win on my main i got ~30 points for a win on my alt which itself felt so unfair. Moreover the players i got matched against seemed to be a lot weaker than the ones i have had to face on my main account.

Maybe there is an explanation to why my alt acc does get easier matchups and more rewards than my main account with 4k hours+ does even though they started with almost the same mmr.

My own theory is that the mmr is the same for the league rating but my main account must have a way higher mmr that is not displayed and used to match opponents against me.

I know my spelling/language is awful but i decided to write an english post to reach more people

You can read about all the details of the MMR system elsewhere, but the short version is:

You got larger changes on your alt account because you hadn’t done pvp on it as much. As you do more, wins and losses will change your MMR by smaller amounts.

eg: when you get big jumps because of a win, you would also get big drops because of a loss.

but the mmr displayed was the same for both accounts so why are my alt accs match ups easier+ more rewarding

LehmD.4938:

but the mmr displayed was the same for both accounts so why are my alt accs match ups easier+ more rewarding

It’s called Volatility, the less you play on one account the higher the volatility is, no two accounts are the exact same.

LehmD.4938:

but the mmr displayed was the same for both accounts so why are my alt accs match ups easier+ more rewarding

Easier? Human memory bias, or random luck. It could just have easily been perceived the other way around.

More rewarding (or punishing, if you lost instead)? Volatility is higher if you have not played on the account for a while, or if you are not hitting the predicted results (win or lose) frequently.

Volatility is what determines how far your MMR changes, win or lose vs the predicted result is what determines what direction it changes in.