Viktor Drake, on 24 August 2014 - 06:28 PM, said:
You must be from world of tanks hehe.
Seriously overall the individual is only 1 of 24 players and no matter how good a player you are, you only have a limited influence. Also I don't care how go you are, when you are on a team that just randomly scatters across the whole map, ignores warnings from scouts yelling at them they 6 enemy mechs have just flanked them and are coming from the rear and generally do just about everything they intentionally can to lose, your not going to carry hard enough turn that into a win.
Losses just happen or rather they should. What always gets me about ELO is that I am always concerned that it likes to set me up to lose. Overall I am sitting on about a 60% win rate and sometimes it just seems like I am set up to fail because I happen to be winning to much. Not sure if this is who it works or not but it sure feels like it at times.
**EDIT** Poo, quoted the wrong post. OH WELL!
I just want to say, calling the player the common denominator shows absolutely nothing. Now if he played on the same map, the same way, every single time and did everything like a flow chart, then yes he would be a fixed data point. He is not though, not only is he able to think on the fly and change up his plan, he is capable of mistakes but also bouts of extreme luck.
This means his data input into your little analysis there is not consistent. The only consistent common denominator is the Matchmaker. That is the only thing in the GAME that is hard programmed to work the same way, every game, every single time. Every single queue.
Edited by Pika, 25 August 2014 - 07:20 AM.