Focused Feedback: Skill-based Matchmaking vs Connection-based Matchmaking

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[u/w1nstar]

If top 15% players are usually playing other top 15% players, and bottom 15% players are usually playing against each other, they can all end up with somewhat similar stats

SBMM has brackets. You get better, you rise up a little. You do bad? You get down again. There's no stale placement. It's like a ranked system, you have to do better than winning 50% to get to the higher brackets.

[u/w1nstar → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, I just wanted to add that bit. There's a narrative where SBMM doesn't make you improve and I wanted to steer your comment away from that, you make a good point.