MMR Problems

Those 80-90 games are why it's holding you back.

Say Timmy plays 50 games, and sits around silver V. Timmy then had a good week and wins the 15 of his next 20 games, climbing to Gold 1. Should Timmy's MMR update to Gold 1 and stick him there, even though there's a good chance he's just having a good week and he's been sitting in silver the rest of the season? Probably not.

Timmy's MMR probably climbed a few tiers to maybe Silver 3 or something, but unless you've played very few games your MMR always lags behind your actual level. That's the point of it, to reflect a long-term average of your skill level rather than how you've been doing in the past week.

Like I said, the reverse is also true. If Timmy has been sitting in the middle of Silver for a while and say his girlfriend leaves him or something, he has a bad week and drops all the way down to bronze, is it fair for his MMR to keep him in bronze even though it's clear he's just having a bad week and really belongs in Silver?

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