How Exactly Elo Works
#1
Posted 17 July 2014 - 06:14 PM
I was leaving a happy life, I finally figure out my style play, tweaked my mechs and I was cruising on the battelfield.
I was killing 3 or 4 times more that I was killed and my W/R was going up like crazy. In over word it was as close to heaven as it could be.
And then suddenly something changed. From one day to another, life become difficult. Now I have to work really hard to keep a K/D and W/R around 1. My guess is that I get bumped to a higher group of players.
I know you cannot check your ELO rating, but do we know ow it is calculated ?
#2
Posted 17 July 2014 - 06:21 PM
- your team's average Elo(impossible to deduce)
- the matchmaker's prediction whether you will win or lose
A player who's performance increases over time will expect to have their Elo gradually move upwards.
Karl Berg, on 15 July 2014 - 11:03 PM, said:
Hey Cimarb. It's true somewhat that Elo is related to your win/loss ratio. It adjusts based on your predicted chance to win however, and it turns out that this is a really important property. By adjusting in the manner proposed in Elo's algorithm, the system actually converges over time to a value that is not dependent on your win/loss ratio.
Simply put, if your predicted chance to win a game is 100%, and you actually win, your Elo doesn't increase as a result. Put another way, your Elo changes significantly only when you surprise the matchmaker.
The matchmaker is actually training itself. It's making predictions about whether or not you are going to win or loose a game beforehand, and depending on the actual outcome of the game, it's adjusting it's estimation of your skill.
Edited by Redshift2k5, 17 July 2014 - 06:36 PM.
#3
Posted 17 July 2014 - 11:50 PM
#4
Posted 18 July 2014 - 12:39 AM
After a 2.2 kd and hundreds of 700+ games i still get mouthbreathers on my team who suicide and make us lose the whole game
edit: yup just lost 3 games in kitfox, 2 in adder, 1 in nova and 1 in cent all in a row, average damage over 7 games = 688dmg what a joke for losing 7 in a row...
Edited by Karamarka, 18 July 2014 - 01:28 AM.
#5
Posted 18 July 2014 - 06:59 AM
Karamarka, on 18 July 2014 - 12:39 AM, said:
After a 2.2 kd and hundreds of 700+ games i still get mouthbreathers on my team who suicide and make us lose the whole game
edit: yup just lost 3 games in kitfox, 2 in adder, 1 in nova and 1 in cent all in a row, average damage over 7 games = 688dmg what a joke for losing 7 in a row...
Because it tries to make both teams have a close average ELO.
If your ELO is high and there are not enough high ELO players to group into one game it will balance your ELO with said mouthbreathers.
#6
Posted 18 July 2014 - 11:51 AM
Karamarka, on 18 July 2014 - 12:39 AM, said:
After a 2.2 kd and hundreds of 700+ games i still get mouthbreathers on my team who suicide and make us lose the whole game
edit: yup just lost 3 games in kitfox, 2 in adder, 1 in nova and 1 in cent all in a row, average damage over 7 games = 688dmg what a joke for losing 7 in a row...
highlighted the parts that have nothing at all to do with your Elo
#7
Posted 18 July 2014 - 12:21 PM
After awhile you sort of get a feel for when your going to get a series of stomps, usually 2-3 good wins and I can expect a full on counter roll the next couple of matches, give or take a little luck.
Good example is iv had about three back to back pretty good games (not counting the fact that I spent the last few minutes of the third one under the effect of the mysterious lag bug) If I were to hop in my warhawk and launch right now odds are I would end up in a roll, or at the very least a hard fight followed by a roll.
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Its a sad truth that would should balance out skills instead controls how likely your team is going to be filled with droolers, the end result is terrible players get carried occasionally and very good ones can get 2-3 guys that do 0-40 dmg. I pity newer players or those that have the capacity to improve their skills, they will always get the bewildered effect of wondering why they did so well one match and the next their entire team got wiped off the face of the planet.
(this also has the effect of the tryhard players raging at the rest of the team when they die, creates a very hostile setting iv seen one guy in particular that crops up in my elo range occasionally that just dogs on everyone, especially if hes losing.)
#8
Posted 18 July 2014 - 07:37 PM
Karamarka, on 18 July 2014 - 12:39 AM, said:
After a 2.2 kd and hundreds of 700+ games i still get mouthbreathers on my team who suicide and make us lose the whole game
edit: yup just lost 3 games in kitfox, 2 in adder, 1 in nova and 1 in cent all in a row, average damage over 7 games = 688dmg what a joke for losing 7 in a row...
KD is irrelevant, damage done is irrelevant.
Also you have a different Elo score per weight class, so you could be above average Elo for Assaults but below average Elo for Lights.
Elo is averaged on a per team basis; both teams will have a similar average Elo. This does not mean all your teammates have the same Elo as you.
Your Elo is probably nowhere near as high as you think it is. Work on your fundamentals.
#9
Posted 18 July 2014 - 09:22 PM
Redshift2k5, on 18 July 2014 - 07:37 PM, said:
Are you sure about that ?
It seems to me that all my chassis were facing stronger players all of the sudden.
I might be wrong of course but I really get the feeling that the change was sudden and all across the board.
PS : I am not complaining about facing stronger players but the change felt really brutal to me
Edited by Tereva, 18 July 2014 - 09:25 PM.
#10
Posted 18 July 2014 - 09:24 PM
#11
Posted 18 July 2014 - 10:14 PM
It's all very nebulous and fairly obnoxious. The opacity is what really gives it the bad name that it has, imo. But anyway, learn to not worry about it and just fight hard every match. You'll probably enjoy the game more that way.
#12
Posted 18 July 2014 - 10:22 PM
Crap.
#13
Posted 18 July 2014 - 10:39 PM
Lukoi, on 18 July 2014 - 10:14 PM, said:
It's all very nebulous and fairly obnoxious. The opacity is what really gives it the bad name that it has, imo. But anyway, learn to not worry about it and just fight hard every match. You'll probably enjoy the game more that way.
Indeed !
#14
Posted 19 July 2014 - 12:18 AM
Tereva, on 18 July 2014 - 09:22 PM, said:
Are you sure about that ?
It seems to me that all my chassis were facing stronger players all of the sudden.
I might be wrong of course but I really get the feeling that the change was sudden and all across the board.
PS : I am not complaining about facing stronger players but the change felt really brutal to me
This also happens (facing seemingly stronger opponents) when you play at a different time of day or day of the week. The player dynamics just mix things up, partly due to population at various times. Maybe you normally play when fewer players are on, and so you are matched up against weaker opponents strugging with ping issues. Or something else.
#16
Posted 19 July 2014 - 09:54 AM
Elo ranking is a rating system developed by Arpad Elo to match players of equivalent skill against each other in competitive chess.
ELO is the Electric Light Orchestra:
You're welcome.
#17
Posted 19 July 2014 - 10:48 AM
Ode to Elo by ELO.
(when considering the song in this context, It gets even funnier as I listen to the lyrics)
Edited by Kjudoon, 19 July 2014 - 10:49 AM.
#18
Posted 19 July 2014 - 11:02 AM
Also, it was said earlier that if the MM calculates that you're "supposed" to lose and you do, your Elo score moves very little if at all. So while bad games can be frustrating it's probable that you were "supposed" to get stomped and that game doesn't "count" as far as affecting your Elo too much.
Same can be said for easy wins.
#19
Posted 19 July 2014 - 06:30 PM
Bulletsponge0, on 18 July 2014 - 11:51 AM, said:
I was just stating that the Elo system and matchmaking in this game is horrible
why if i pull all the weight and just because i'm good, i have to carry every single game? Flawed design
If i play a light or medium mech i am guaranteed to lose because i cant carry like i can in a timberwolf or direwhale.
Redshift2k5, on 18 July 2014 - 07:37 PM, said:
KD is irrelevant, damage done is irrelevant.
Also you have a different Elo score per weight class, so you could be above average Elo for Assaults but below average Elo for Lights.
Elo is averaged on a per team basis; both teams will have a similar average Elo. This does not mean all your teammates have the same Elo as you.
Your Elo is probably nowhere near as high as you think it is. Work on your fundamentals.
Wow another person saying L2P , is that what you tell yourself when you cant break 300damage every game?
heh
Pretty much Russ and others on the 15th July podcast stated how it works, and from deduction
1 pro and 5 noobs, 6 average on Team A
vs
12 average on Team B
Yet the matchmaker due to bell curve of new players and average Elo when starting cant deduct if they are new or average, so really half the time its massive noob (trial/poor mech lab mechs/cadets) on either team weighing them disproportionately hence, you get 3-4 people on your team suiciding and another 3-4 doing less than 150 damage.
ggclose
Edited by Karamarka, 19 July 2014 - 06:34 PM.
#20
Posted 19 July 2014 - 10:30 PM
Karamarka, on 19 July 2014 - 06:30 PM, said:
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Wow another person saying L2P , is that what you tell yourself when you cant break 300damage every game?
heh
Pretty much Russ and others on the 15th July podcast stated how it works, and from deduction
1 pro and 5 noobs, 6 average on Team A
vs
12 average on Team B
Yet the matchmaker due to bell curve of new players and average Elo when starting cant deduct if they are new or average, so really half the time its massive noob (trial/poor mech lab mechs/cadets) on either team weighing them disproportionately hence, you get 3-4 people on your team suiciding and another 3-4 doing less than 150 damage.
ggclose
Not sure what podcast you are getting that deduction from, because Russ said in the NGNG podcast that the majority of the solo queue games have a variance of 50 Elo. As in the lowest Elo on the team is 50 or less than the highest Elo on the team. Not a team average of 1 pro and 6 noobs - the only way that happens is in a player created group.
Group queue he didn't give numbers, but did say it's worse because the pools are smaller and there are team averages. So right now group queue is actually having worse match-ups than solo.
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