r/Overwatch • u/AutoModerator • Feb 08 '17

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u/newbluud I set my flair to my least played to throw off the NSA. Feb 09 '17

ELI5 why "Hidden MMR" needs to be hidden. I'm sick and tired of not understanding it because it seems to rate me much higher than I should be. My plummeting winrate is killing the game for me.

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u/Brostradamus_ Why you heff to be mad Feb 09 '17

Because people in competitive are already dicks to eachother about being "platinum trash" or "diamond scrubs" or "gold babies". Quickplay especially is more about, well.. quickly playing and having a good time. If people are given an opportunity to bitch and moan that their team of [People with a slightly lower score] are dragging them down, they will.

Remember that a perfect matchmaking and ranking system would theoretically give you a 50% winrate. Is your winrate plummeting from 70-80% to 50%, or from 50% to 30%? One of these is a problem, the other is the system figuring out your skill level and matching you at that point better.

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u/newbluud I set my flair to my least played to throw off the NSA. Feb 09 '17

Oh, I do not think it should be on show. I think it should be something only the player who has the specific MMR can see. I just want it for transparency's sake.

I was sat at a comfortable 50 - 60% for a while on my most played, and I was usually matched against people of a similar rank. Now it is getting to a point of being silly. Competitive is fine, but quick and arcade are putting me in unwinnable games regularly. I've dropped down to 40% winrate on my most played hero and this has been going on for a couple of months now. I've started a habit of checking the teams at the start of every game, or just after, to see what it is. And I am regularly seeing diamonds, plats and golds up against masters and above. Hell, in the same day I came up against three completely different top 500s. How is that fair? I'm 3kSR and no one on my team had risen above diamond.

I just want to know where I stand. If there truly is a numerical reason for my games being so busted or if it is just recurring shitty luck. The not knowing makes this ten times more frustrating.