Dota 2 team matchmaking ladder bookcase

Dota 2 team matchmaking ladder bookcase

“What Makes a Good Match?

The ultimate goal of automated matchmaking in Dota 2 is for players to enjoy the game. The matchmaker seeks matches with the following properties (listed in no particular order):

The teams are balanced. (Each team has a 50% chance to win.)”

According to simple logic, this means that if you get a winstreak your teammates will get worse and worse, to “balance” the teams. You can’t make balanced teams, without looking at past perfomance on each individual.

This can clearly be seen when you are stuck at the lowest MMR brackets. I get 10-20 game “winstreaks”, wich are ALWAYS followed by equal or larger number of losses. And when I say winstreak here, I actually mean having over 70% winrate. On my winstreak games, the team communicates, everyone does their job and flaming is to a minimum. When the lose streaks hits, you constantly get teams picking several supports to carry, picking a hero that is 5/5 countered on the enemy team or just clueless newbies who are admiring the graphics more than actually trying to win a game. And the toxicity is enough to kill a cockroach.

It’s like, this system punishes you for winning too much and actually prevents you from climbing fast. Drops you down so hard, so so hard.

I know, I’m not a perfect player, I do make mistakes and some games are lost because of that. But if it was all up to me, then how come I always have that winstreak before a losestreak ?

How come my winrate is 70-80% or even close to a 100% for a week, and suddenly 20% the next ?

Shouldn’t it even out to 50% winrate when I reach my skill level ?

If the MMR system was fair, wouldn’t player skill level be more stable and not vary so massively, also on the lower brackets ?

Sure, this matchmaking system makes it more enjoyable to those who are on their correct level. But to those under their skill level, it makes things just horrible. Ofcourse, it would be horrible to valve. If a hundred thousand clueless players were to stop making those micro transactions after mostly just losing after not getting carried that often.

I calibrated my MMR like 2200 hours ago, wich was a horrible horrible mistake. Been trying to climb up ever since, without success. I study mechanics, I watch guides. I’ve improved a ton since the original calibration. Doesn’t help, it’s not enough. Recalibrating with season MMR isn’t a real option either, since the system will base your calibrating bracket on your hidden mmr wich means you don’t actually get a clean slate, unlike one would think when it’s a paid service available once a year.

Isn’t MMR itself already a thing that would/should balance the teams out ? Current system distorts the actual rankings and allows some players to climb the ladder with just average performance, and prevents some with high(er) performance of reaching their level. That’s how it seems anyways. I know someone will say everyone is at the level they belong to, and yadda yadda. Dota 2 team matchmaking ladder bookcase That’s not entirely true I believe.

I just want Valve to take a hard long look on the mirror, and really think if the system is really fair, like it should be on one of the most popular competetive games online. I bet they wont though.