**KNOWN AW ISSUE**
Please be aware, there is a known issue with Saga badging when observing the AW map.
The team have found the source of the issue and will be updating with our next build.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Please be aware, there is a known issue with Saga badging when observing the AW map.
The team have found the source of the issue and will be updating with our next build.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
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Matching on a prestige of just upper portion of your Deck would indeed stop all the lower portion of your Deck from pulling down your overall average (which seems to be what is currently being used to match, the “Average of whole deck”).
Thus it wouldn’t matter what your deck has at it's bottom anymore, it wouldn’t count in determining who you match against.
Top-10 or Top-15 have been proposed in comments before by many.
Although I now think that just Top-10 might be too few, because 3 of them will get banned out and are not actually part of what could be selected afterwards (leaving only next 7 for actual team, which probably is rare that you would be able to choose exactly just those next 7).
So probably top 10 starting at 4th highest in deck, assuming 3 of the very top ones would get banned. Or just basically Top-13 to determine Matchmaking Deck Prestige (although top-15 seems fine too).
And to match purely on existing Player Prestige (top-5 of whole roster) would be too narrowly focused, as even very early beginner accounts (like only 200,000 Rating) can very easily have a few champs at 5*r5 or 6*r2 already, but then rest of their roster drops off very quickly after that.
Although I now think that just Top-10 might be too few, because 3 of them will get banned out and are not actually part of what could be selected afterwards
Agreed, I think top 20 should be considered, because usually last 10 are being used to sandbag.
Choosing 7 out of 17 top champs is a good sample to decide the matchmaking on.
The other thing to account for in this was that I also did this when I was around the Diamond 2 bracket when matchmaking had allegedly been fixed and I came across fresh cavalier and thronebreakers who were many brackets ahead of many of my alliance mates at the time (we're a T1 AW alliance and placed 12th in the BG event, so we take it seriously). By the end of the initial experiment I was sitting in Gold I or so fighting accounts that were still roadblocked at 6.2.6 who had somehow sneaked ahead of the competition based on this algorithm.
How is it remotely fair that some of the best players can't get through yet this little sub-division exists within the gamemode allowing for the easy passage of small accounts and, not to put too fine a point on it, noobs.