BWS2K, on 01 June 2018 - 03:53 PM, said:
I'm not totally sure I understand what you mean but if a person is always playing to win, whatever the cost (and I realize that's not always the case), then wouldn't W/L represent that better than the PSR? Maybe it doesn't help for MatchMaking though...
This is only true if you believe that a person, through their own actions, completely independent of their team, can actually influence a win on a consistent basis. For myself, I have personally been in way to many matches where I have killed 3-4 enemy mechs, have had most of them be solo kills and outputted 800+ damage only to find myself be the last team member alive against 6-8 enemy mechs and got shredded by those 6-8 enemy mechs to believe that I, myself, alone can consistantly insure my team wins the majority of their matches.
Seriously though, I do absolutely believe that there are some players out there that are good enough to actually influence the majority of matches they play in but just like Michael Jordan or insert any superstar, elite athlete out there, they are 1 in 1000 or maybe even 1 in 100,000. The majority of us just aren't that good despite what we might think.
So for those of us who just aren't that good, the 98-99% of us who are playing this game, we have to hope that our teammates know their head from a hole in the ground, in order to secure a win.