AW Matchmaking

So looking at how many people got terrible matchmaking last season I have to wonder why matchmaking has so much RNG.

The very first match of the season people enlist right, let's call them teams 1 to 100. 1 being the best and 100 being the worst, score wise that is.

All 100 enlist. Why doesn't the matchmaking system put 1 vs 2, 3 vs 4, 5 vs 6, etc? If they all used the same number of battlegroups.

AW season ranking we want to determine the best alliance, based on a score. If alliance 2 looses they don't get the full score because of the bonus and moves down a little. It should be that easy right?

Can someone explain to me why alliance 100 would be getting paired with alliance 10.

This has been happening a lot in war and honestly no one cares to play war anymore unless your in the top few groupings and want to spend money for items. This isn't a secret.

Why not make the matchings fair based on your score?

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Kevo9513

Let me explain it to you in your terms.

The matchmaking was unfair in the past because alliance that 100 would go into alliances that are 10 and beat everyone there then get easy rewards.

With the new season, everyone gets matched based on war rating not prestige and there are alliances who were 100 worthy but stuck in 10 because of the unfair matchups with those alliances mentioned above.

There will be a season or two where they’d have to face weaker alliances to moveup to where they truly belong.

SummonerNR

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The very first match of the season people enlist right, let's call them teams 1 to 100. 1 being the best and 100 being the worst, score wise that is.

All 100 enlist. Why doesn't the matchmaking system put 1 vs 2, 3 vs 4, 5 vs 6, etc? If they all used the same number of battlegroups.
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Without turning this into a very long thread like so many others (that someone tends to turn them into, lol)... just a little reply to the base of your idea.

For the very first match of Season, there are no Best or Worst according to Score-Wise, because everybody actually has 0 points for a score before any season wars are played yet.

If you mean according to Prestige, that is what used to happen. But that allowed “B Division”, “Minor League”, etc, teams to only have to beat other “Minor League” teams, and allowed the better Minor League teams to climb up into the ranks of the best and strongest teams like the N.E. Patriots, Liverpool FC, or whatever sport equivalent you like, without ever having to face those actual top teams.

So now is changed to Match according to War Rating, which eventually will move teams into a more appropriate place similar to their peers.

OneMast3r

What do you mean there is no score? People start in a position, their ranking from last season.

And I don't mean prestige, I mean you should be matched by ranking. This means the better alliances make it to the best rank, the worst at the bottom, and everyone else fights for the middle against other similar ranked alliances.

Why would people get matched via anything but ranking? Every other way to match is unfair as it's flawed. You earn your rank and you should fight similar ranked opponents to gain higher rank.

If I'm rank 50 out of 100 fighting the top 10 alliances means I'm going to loose. If I fight others similar to my rank it should be a fair fight. If it's not a fair fight it's because alliances were matched in a different way and some others got lucky.

If your rank 1 and you fight rank 50 out of 100 do you feel like you deserve that win? If your rank 50 and you fight rank 1 do you deserve the loss and ultimately no bonus from no being able to finish the map.

People getting matched way outside their bracket is just a nice way of making no one want to join aw.

From kabams point of view, they also make less money. Being matched closely makes people want to use more items. If you have 0 chance of winning you have 0 chance of people buying units for war.

SummonerNR

What do you mean by “start in a position, their ranking from last season” ?

Ranking, as in what Medal Grouping you are in (Gold/Silver/etc) does not actually carry-over from previous year. That's why I said your Season Points begin at 0 every season. And Medal Grouping is determined by how many Points you have during the season (well, as of after 3 wars in I think) and for end-of-season standing.

What does carry over is your TIER that you are in (Tiers 1-22), which actually have (sort of) nothing to do with your Medal Group or your Season Points. (other than your Tier for a war determining how much of a multiplier you get applied to your war's points).

So Tiers are something completely different from Medal Group/Rank.

And Tier is solely based on War Rating. Which is the thing that Matchmaking is now based on.