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Does the 2v2 ranking take your 1v1 into account?

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Hynda
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Sweden2226 Posts
November 28 2010 01:32 GMT
#1
So me and a friend of mine is running 2v2 I'm diamond and she is very low bronze. We pretty much use the games as an excuse to do something while we chat. So it's pretty much 2v1, and I can handle myself in two versus one if I'm up against new enough players. So I figured we would at least win a few games. We've now played around 30 games and won 2. We are ranked 95 in our bronze league and should be pitted against similar players, but we're not.

I've checked the last 20 matches, not a single match have we met someone under gold and in the majority (13) we've met Platinum teams. So does me being Diamond force our team to face better players even if our team score is useless? Do I really have to get a new account just so I could let her win a few times? : /
Kolvacs
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Canada1203 Posts
November 28 2010 01:34 GMT
#2
The guys at Blizzcon who were taking questions about the development or something, said that they do not.
HeyitsClay
Profile Joined April 2008
Canada336 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-11-28 01:36:34
November 28 2010 01:36 GMT
#3
Yeah im 2000pts diamond 1x1

when i try and play some fun games with my noob friends that are like silver or worse, EVERY game we are put vs mid level Diamond players every single game no matter how many losses we suffer even tho we are in a Silver Div

somewhat retarded,

I think this was a recent change just before the end of beta or something
DamnCats
Profile Joined August 2010
United States1472 Posts
November 28 2010 01:38 GMT
#4
I play 2v2's with a bronze league 1v1 friend of mine and we used to get TONS of people in bronze/silver when we started. He just cannon rushed (and usually failed hardcore) and I would 2v1 them with speedlings basically to win. That stopped happening though because eventually we got to plat/diamond level players (even though we had been in diamond 2v2 the whole time) and I made him play legit lol.

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Lucius2
Profile Joined June 2010
Germany548 Posts
November 28 2010 01:44 GMT
#5
i also believe there is something fishy going on with mixing all the 1v1 and team ratings. some things just cant be explained otherwise
Hynda
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Sweden2226 Posts
November 28 2010 01:48 GMT
#6
On November 28 2010 10:44 Lucius2 wrote:
i also believe there is something fishy going on with mixing all the 1v1 and team ratings. some things just cant be explained otherwise

I feel the same it makes no sense to put a team that's 2 - 28 Bronze vs a 60 - 40 platinum team.
Skyze
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Canada2324 Posts
November 28 2010 01:51 GMT
#7
I definitely think your 1v1 mixes with other leagues.. For example, I was 1800 and was getting pretty decent players in FFA, while my friend who has more FFA wins than me by like 100, was still getting horrible opponents because hes only like 300 diamond 1v1..

Clearly the FFA MMR is based largely on your 1v1 MMR to match you, because if you search for FFA's and your 1v1 is low, you get easy opponents, but if your 1v1 is higher, you match vs high 1v1ers in FFA too. Im assuming 2v2/etc is the same.
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Genome852
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States979 Posts
November 28 2010 01:57 GMT
#8
1v1 mmr doesn't affect 2v2 or 3v3, if it's the same system as WoW arena. Holds true from my experiences as well.
.Aar
Profile Joined September 2010
2177 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-11-28 02:04:28
November 28 2010 02:03 GMT
#9
I was wondering about this myself. I'm Platinum 2v2 with a Gold 1v1 player, and our games are for the most part pretty evenly matched. But when I play with my Bronze or high Diamond friends, it's.. pitiful. Either I 2v1 or we both get crushed.

I'm pretty positive your 1v1 stats come into play in team games, because it sure feels like it.
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Krasso
Profile Joined November 2010
Denmark74 Posts
November 28 2010 02:15 GMT
#10
On November 28 2010 10:34 Kolvacs wrote:
The guys at Blizzcon who were taking questions about the development or something, said that they do not.

This.

Search "Secrets of the master blizzcon 2010" on youtube for prove.

End of discussion
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MichaelJLowell
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States610 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-11-28 02:21:51
November 28 2010 02:21 GMT
#11
It doesn't and it shouldn't. Anyone who played Warcraft III and matched against the 60-5 solo player with an 0-30 random team record knows why linked ratings are a bad idea.
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Excalibur_Z
Profile Joined October 2002
United States12241 Posts
November 28 2010 02:25 GMT
#12
On November 28 2010 10:34 Kolvacs wrote:
The guys at Blizzcon who were taking questions about the development or something, said that they do not.


Ssssssort of. When you make a new team, it uses your performance in other teams and brackets as a starting point. After that point, though, then your teams are completely separate.

Now, as far as whether that means it starts at the highest ranked player's skill level, or the average of all the members' highest team, or the average of the brackets of each player, that's not known.
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Tonyoh
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
France218 Posts
November 28 2010 02:31 GMT
#13
that makes me think, what are the best ways to win with a BIG noob as ally ?
I play with my cousin who sucks hard =) and play terran. very passive style (like all the platinum players) and reactivity not enough fast.

A nice one, as terran, is taking gold expo with PF + turrets.
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Angelbelow
Profile Joined September 2010
United States3728 Posts
November 28 2010 02:33 GMT
#14
I FEEL like it does... I dont pay 1v1 that much but im a low diamond ~500 points. But I ALWAYS get matched up with 1200+ sometimes 1800, and it always says even match...

I play 2s,3s,4s pretty heavily with friends and im mid to high diamond for those rankings so it definitely feels like its affecting it...
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Barbiero
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Brazil5259 Posts
November 28 2010 02:35 GMT
#15
why would it, 2v2 is a completly different game from 1v1.
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Angelbelow
Profile Joined September 2010
United States3728 Posts
November 28 2010 02:38 GMT
#16
I FEEL like it does... I dont pay 1v1 that much but im a low diamond ~500 points. But I ALWAYS get matched up with 1200+ sometimes 1800, and it always says even match...

I play 2s,3s,4s pretty heavily with friends and im mid to high diamond for those rankings so it definitely feels like its affecting it...
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NoobStyles
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Australia257 Posts
November 28 2010 02:39 GMT
#17
On November 28 2010 11:25 Excalibur_Z wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 28 2010 10:34 Kolvacs wrote:
The guys at Blizzcon who were taking questions about the development or something, said that they do not.


Ssssssort of. When you make a new team, it uses your performance in other teams and brackets as a starting point. After that point, though, then your teams are completely separate.

Now, as far as whether that means it starts at the highest ranked player's skill level, or the average of all the members' highest team, or the average of the brackets of each player, that's not known.



Interesting, that basically explains this thread without having to call blizz straight out liars.

I have noticed that if i play in a "new team" in any league 2/3/4s even the first placement match is VS solid opponents. its happened for 3-4 placement match series. It also keeps placing us Vs good opponents even though we loose all/most of the placements. generally because im trying to win with mass landed viking or something similar.

Ether most of the people in this thread and myself consistently hit diamond lvl smurfs that have bought a new acc and are just laddering back up, or blizz has changed the way AMM works during placements, since beta.
KevinIX
Profile Joined October 2009
United States2472 Posts
November 28 2010 02:39 GMT
#18
I think they do affect your placement matches, but after your placement matches, the two rankings are completely separate.
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EonShiKeno
Profile Joined July 2010
United States122 Posts
November 28 2010 03:07 GMT
#19
It has to. I am like 2000 Diamond 1v1, when I play 2's with my friend who is like 800 Plat, we always play people who are bad in 1v1. When I play 2's with my friend who is 1700 diamond 1v1 we always play high rated 1v1 players. With each person I have over 60 2's games with so I can speak from lots of experience. I don't care what some dude from blizzard said. It couldn't be more obvious to me.
jaeds
Profile Joined September 2010
United States106 Posts
November 28 2010 03:21 GMT
#20
people aren't sure how MMR works. The main point of confusion is how much MMR raises and falls for wins and losses against people X amount of MMR higher or lower.

i think good questions would be:

Did you win any placement matches? What league were the people you beat in? What order did you play them and win or lose? If you lost, how far down did it place you at which game in your placement series? If you won, how far up did it place you at which game in your placement series?

MMR is very likely to change rapidly in the first 5 games, and then slow down its growth/decline considerably.
Sein
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States1811 Posts
November 28 2010 03:27 GMT
#21
Wasn't there a story of Huk/Select/TTOne's 3v3 team taking forever to find each match during their placement because their individual MMR's were so high?
Eatme
Profile Blog Joined June 2003
Switzerland3919 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-11-28 03:37:36
November 28 2010 03:35 GMT
#22
When I played placements with Jinro (offracing) we faced really good players even after losing. We went 3-2 in placements only playing good opponents and got placed in plat.
When I play with not so skilled friends we end up facing bad opponents and with one 4:4team we went 3-2 and ended up in bronze.
So 1:1 rating seems to play a part in atleast the placements. But I have not played enough games to see a trend in the long run. However I heard about people getting stuck in low bronze and only playing really good players in 1:1 too so it might be that bug if it's still around. Apparently it had something to do with copper being removed.

The op should learn his ally some buildorder or atleast a cheese so you can win atleast a few games.
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ElWarbringer
Profile Joined November 2010
United States15 Posts
November 28 2010 06:22 GMT
#23
NO IT DOESNT. They learned their mistakes from wc3. people bombed their 1v1 so they can pwn noobs in team games so no.
Phaded
Profile Joined August 2010
Australia579 Posts
November 28 2010 07:02 GMT
#24
It doesaffect your initial games, as they explained in the Secrets of the Masters discussion at Blizzcon 2010



skip to 6:15

It's initial bootstrapping for the early matches, ie. if you and your partner are both diamond in another team/bracket, you would face harder teams to begin with than if you and your partner were both bronze.

You will need to lose a lot more games to get to a lower bronze/silver level
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Penecks
Profile Joined August 2010
United States600 Posts
November 28 2010 07:11 GMT
#25
Apparently not, just lost 23 points to a 3v3 where 2 of the players had like 1200 wins and 100 losses. Of course they ling/marine spammed all their games.
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fdsdfg
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States1251 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-11-28 07:13:55
November 28 2010 07:13 GMT
#26
On November 28 2010 16:02 Phaded wrote:
It doesaffect your initial games, as they explained in the Secrets of the Masters discussion at Blizzcon 2010

[video]

skip to 6:15

It's initial bootstrapping for the early matches, ie. if you and your partner are both diamond in another team/bracket, you would face harder teams to begin with than if you and your partner were both bronze.

You will need to lose a lot more games to get to a lower bronze/silver level


This is good info. I am pretty well in Diamond, but my girlfriend sucks (lol), so when we do arranged 2v2 we face medicre people and lose. Glad that it doesn't read/modify my MMR based off those matches.
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cubert
Profile Joined June 2010
Russian Federation94 Posts
November 28 2010 11:05 GMT
#27
It does. In early release with good 2v2 stats I have met Kas,Goody,Satiini, etc when they were top diamond and I top-95 platinum with bad wr. Now in top diamond 2v2 we meet sometimes top 1v1 players playing their 2v2 placements.
Qwix
Profile Joined October 2010
531 Posts
November 28 2010 11:22 GMT
#28
If your really into doing 2vs2 then i'd really advice like you said before to buy a new account and play on that everytime your going to play 2vs2 with her. The system really just puts you vs your own rankings for the majority of the matches (i've faced this as well with my irl friends).
Craton
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States17281 Posts
November 28 2010 11:22 GMT
#29
Only 1v1 is affected by 1v1.
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Ssoulle
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United Kingdom149 Posts
November 28 2010 14:42 GMT
#30
Ok, I have a hard time believing that it doesn't.

Me and my friends have a 4v4 team, and we almost exclusively now get Diamond players in our matchups even though we are a Bronze team respectively. Our highest 1v1 player is a low ranked Plat player.
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volraththelord
Profile Joined April 2010
United States2 Posts
November 28 2010 15:05 GMT
#31
I play 3v3 randoms with my cousin. He has 2200 points in 1v1. He gets less points than I do when we play 3's together even though I have 1000 more points than him in 3v3.

Good job blizzard at keeping that secret they totally bring your other leagues into play.
I said good day sir!
Sanguinarius
Profile Joined January 2010
United States3427 Posts
November 28 2010 15:07 GMT
#32
1v1, 2v2, 3v3, 4v4 are all separate MMRs according to blizzcon peeps
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killerdog
Profile Joined February 2010
Denmark6522 Posts
November 28 2010 15:19 GMT
#33
someone at blizzard once said that that your mmr from other leagues is used to determine your opponents for your placement matches. once your finnish them other leagues stop having any effect.

cant remember where they said it but it was in an interview ages ago (around about launch)
Marksman
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Malaysia523 Posts
November 28 2010 15:47 GMT
#34
On November 28 2010 16:02 Phaded wrote:
It doesaffect your initial games, as they explained in the Secrets of the Masters discussion at Blizzcon 2010

[video]

skip to 6:15

It's initial bootstrapping for the early matches, ie. if you and your partner are both diamond in another team/bracket, you would face harder teams to begin with than if you and your partner were both bronze.

You will need to lose a lot more games to get to a lower bronze/silver level



Ok so its been cleared up. Now I have a question to continue the discussion.

Does MMR from one Bnet server affect another? Cause it was like this as well

On November 28 2010 12:35 Eatme wrote:
When I played placements with Jinro (offracing) we faced really good players even after losing. We went 3-2 in placements only playing good opponents and got placed in plat.


Exact score and league as well if i recall it right.Me and my partner were Diamonds in 2v2 for SEA (1v1 3v3 as well). All our five placement matches are against 1.6k + Diamonds for 2v2s during our placement for US. It definitely felt odd for us since we weren't expecting it lol.

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