The correct answere is, for MM to work properly, you need more then 24 people. Cause if your 24 players are in a range from T-1 to T-5 the MM is forced to put these people together. The result would be a MM that dosn't match people, just sticking the few together that are there.
So idealy to have a proper MM you need 24 of each tier = 120 people so each Tier is filled with 24 people of the same Tier for each match.
Problem with that is these wouldn't be interesting matches. When you put together people of equal skill the outcome of the match becomes a 50/50 chance...what is basicly a random match and it would be more interesting to roll a dice.
So you would mix up some higher and lower skills anyway to tip things slightly. Is that fair? No but it makes for interesting matches. One side might get an easier win, makeing them feel good. The other side might get a hard fought win, giveing them a good feeling.
For this to work and not getting out of hand, resulting in stomps you need a good veriaty of people with different levels of skill so you can counterbalance a to skilled player at least a little bit. Like a T1 with two T2 or three T3...something like that.
But not to much or you will run in the 50/50 problem again.
So from the ideal state of 120 people you would need to add more because you don't have ideal skilled players online all the time. I would guess that you would need to add about 10% more people at least? So 132 people to beginn with.
I don't know how many players there are online at any given time or on average but just 24 people only works if these are all nearly equal in skill.
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Anyway PSR seams to need a rework. I think their initial goal might have been to give players a good feeling by showing some kind of progress in the Tier bar. Thats nice an all but dosn't serve the game well.
Changing the numbers for what Matchscore gives you what advance/loose might be a thing.
I wonder what excactly they did with FP....they did something with the MM there right?
Edited by Nesutizale, 25 April 2019 - 01:52 AM.