Adjust Matchmaking Algorithm

[edgy wasp]

Far too often I get thrown into matches where there is such a heavy rank disparity between players on a team where low ranked players are playing with high ranked players and vice versa. High ranks have no one to work with and they end up having to hog the puck to have a chance to win and the low ranks don’t like that they’re never touching the puck and it’s frustrating for everyone involved. Lower ranks need to be with and against similar elo players where they can learn and improve their game against equal competition instead of being carried by better players.

Here’s a scenario: A legend player is paired with a couple of gold players against a full plat team. When you add up the elo on paper it looks like an equal match but I’ve been on both sides of this and the plats have the easier matchup by a mile. They only have to worry about one player and the lower ranks who don’t even have basic mechanics down yet can single handedly lose you the game.

I’d understand if this happened when there’s only 15-20 people in the queue and you can’t really complain about who you end up with but this consistently happens even during peak hours where there is close to 100 people in the queue.

The simple solution is to just not bother with solo queue but part of why I’ve played solo so much is that each game is only 5 minutes and it’s nice to run a quick 2 or 3 matches when I have time instead of waiting for a team. That and it’s always fun when the queue is in a good state and you get matches where everyone with and against you knows how to play and you’re mixing and matching up with different players each game.

My solution to this is implementing another queue setting where the game will not match you with players more than two ranks above or below you and if after 5 minutes you have not found a match the queue will widen the player pool to everyone. This being optional will let players choose whether they value speed of matchmaking more or getting better matches overall.

[sonic mantle]

i disagree about what you said with the scenario and think it is very equal and still more winnable even for the legend player but i am not gonna argue with you about that. Basically what i wanted to say is that some people have already said and suggested this in the past but the answer shorly summarised is we just do not have the playerbase for ranks to be more fair every match. you say 100 people but that is not a mega big amount with also bronze ranks being in there etc. the queue setting would divide the not mega big playerbase even more and a lot of people do not want to wait 5 minutes

i understand your frustration tho but unfortunately i do not think there is much that can be done about what you said

[wind zodiac]

as a silver-low gold player this would be so nice i love the games where were all pretty low, id be willing to wait 5 minutes. but it does make sense the player base is so low so it wouldnt work as well

[obtuse shadow]

give me 3 dashes and i can make it work 😂 but i feel this, like gubbaba said there is not much erv can do about this. this is why i dont complain about it either. i just take the L and move on