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[SteelTantrum]

Since the patch I have played around 30 games of which 28 of those have been on losing teams.
So you are going to say I am just bad but my K/D is around 1 and I know I'm not the best player but I am ok and when you have had a straight run of 12 losses in a row you really do wonder why you bother playing. Surely ELO has something built into it to stop this...it's demoralizing and not a lot of fun either go ahead rip my comment apart but when all is said and done it's a game and it's meant to be enjoyable.

[Ironwithin]

Elo, name, not an acronym.

[Bilbo]

Why would Elo have anything built into it to prevent win/loss streaks? If you are having a bad run, maybe use a different weight class or change your play style for a bit.The MM isn't going to do you any favors regardless.

[Wintersdark]

Bilbo, on 17 June 2015 - 09:21 AM, said:

Why would Elo have anything built into it to prevent win/loss streaks? If you are having a bad run, maybe use a different weight class or change your play style for a bit.The MM isn't going to do you any favors regardless.

this.

It's just an algorithm to rank players based on their aggregate success or failure vs other players, and adjust your ranking as appropriate based on relative scored.

[Barkem Squirrel]

It could be there was a bump in your ELO recently and now your ELO is being whittled away.

I have hit that quite a few times, go on a long winning streak, and wham loss after loss. Then after enough losses I end up with Players that I recognize again and the win/loss evens out. At times that winning streak does not stop or just evens out and you are dropping with a new group of players and attain a higher ELO. Changing ELO levels does affect how you need to play, so adapt.

ELO does not have a heart and you could also be on the team that has just a few less points. Then there is having one player with a high ELO and many players with an ELO well below the average for the team against a team with all about the same ELO.

[grendeldog]

Humans are designed to see patterns and grand design where there is none - seeing a pattern where there is only noise is evolutionarily cheap for intelligent beings, whereas seeing noise where there is a pattern will lead to your ignoring the big predator sneaking up on you. You get eaten, and removed from the gene pool, and thus we as a species have been selected to prefer narrative and to see patterns where there are none.

I have the same subjective experience - I think that we all have had this experience at least once in this game. Yesterday I was just slaughtering people left and right in the EBJ - 1.5 kills and minimum of 550 damage per game. Today my first five or six matches were just cluster-effs, with the team getting crushed.

I switched weight classes and waited to get out of the rotation with the players that I had been getting grouped with. A while later I came back to the EBJ with a different build, and now I am on top again, drop-calling games and kicking arse.

Your perception of being in a losing streak will also affect your performance, likely in a negative way. When I was in a bad spot earlier today I was barely breaking 300 damage in the EBJ. Just take a small break, switch weight classes, and then come back a while later. I would bet you'll have better luck then.