I decided to go through my last 250 medium class games (HBK-4J) and do a break down of how I am doing not just overall, but in both the solo and group queue. Just for the record, I am almost exclusively a medium pilot so going into this I probably had a pretty established Medium Elo.
TOTAL WIN LOSS TREND
The blue line is the trend. So if I won a game I got +1, if I lost a game I got -1. The red rectangles are the periods where I was playing in the group queue. My total win/loss ratio is 1.35.
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GROUP QUEUE WIN LOSS TREND
No surprise here. My win rate skyrockets in the group queue to 3.05 W/L. For those who don't know, I play for QQ Mercs. Aside from the occasional match against the SJR/EMP no-lube rapetrain, we usually play pretty well together.
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SOLO QUEUE WIN LOSS TREND
Honestly, I was not expecting it to be so even. 89 wins, 88 losses puts me almost exactly at a 1.0 W/L in the solo queue. I attribute the +0.01 above average to clearly show that hunchbacks are OP.
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So here is an important question that is often debated on the forum. Was I unfairly punished in the solo queue because of my high W/L ratio in the group queue?
Sort of. I'm sorry if this next graph is a little dense, but I broke down Win/Loss Ratio between Group and Solo sessions. Green lines pointing up from green boxes are my solo play sessions. Red lines pointing down are my group queue play sessions. Red text is negative w/l ratio, green text is positive.
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WIN LOSS RATIO BREAK DOWN
It seems that toward the end when I started playing more group queue, I started losing more than winning in the solo queue. However, the w/l ratio was rather gentle. It was usually just 1-2 game difference.
So there you have it. Matchmaker seems to do an admirable job in the solo queue, but struggles in the group queue. People who win a lot in the group queue seem to get punished for it in the solo queue, but it's not nearly as bad as people think.
Edited by Jman5, 23 March 2015 - 11:51 AM.