ApolloAndy wrote: In all likelihood, the person you're seeing hasn't logged in yet and certainly picked fights harder than he can handle because of the skip tax and hasn't had his MMR lowered as a result. That said, I'm skeptical that such a chain of events will happen enough for people's MMR to stop being so inflated. I can't imagine risking 30 tournament points (especially in an event I care about) instead of 50-60 ISO to skip people I don't want to fight.
Ben Grimm wrote: It's going to make tanking that much more important, and it may lead to people basically opting out of events if they can't get good matches easily. If it had been in place for the 1* tournament, I might not have bothered at all.
MarvelMan wrote: Might just be where I am in the game, but I see an overwhelming number of 11-16 point matches rather at or above my point level. I dont think they need to overhaul the MMR algorithm completely, just tweak it so its more of a bell curve centered on my current points.
Phantron wrote: That's because there are likely very few players who have comparable points as you. Whenever I start playing I hit a point where I'm top 5 in my bracket very quickly. Assuming my bracket isn't some kind of aberration compared to the norm, that means I have more points than 99% of the players. Of course it'd be pretty hard to find guys even close to your points when you're already above 99% of the players.
MarvelMan wrote: Phantron wrote: That's because there are likely very few players who have comparable points as you. Whenever I start playing I hit a point where I'm top 5 in my bracket very quickly. Assuming my bracket isn't some kind of aberration compared to the norm, that means I have more points than 99% of the players. Of course it'd be pretty hard to find guys even close to your points when you're already above 99% of the players. Good point. I feel (I dont have hard data) that this starts well before I get to the top 10, maybe somewhere around 50-20. Plus, I generally start late (the night of/before the end) so I would expect other brackets to be more advanced than mine. I find my brackets top out lower than what I see others on here talking about as well.
Pawkeshup wrote: Ugh, I was hoping this was some kind of error or joke. A skip tax, really? For those of us with lower characters, it makes it impossible to get ISO reliably. I frequently skip because facing a complete loss just due to not having ISO to even level up to be capable of winning these fights is idiotic. The level matching system doesn't exist. I don't mind facing opponents around my level, but often they match me with people with level 50-60-70 characters. I don't even have a level 50 yet. It's ridiculous. Sure, could I win? If the gems fall utterly perfectly and I can stunlock them permanently maybe. More often than not I do beat on some lower opponents because finding one my level is next to impossible. I can see taxing to skip lower enemies, but not higher ones.