Unranked MMR affects Ranked MMR pre-placement?

On March 24 2013 09:42 Williammm wrote:
I'm pretty sure they have separate MMR's. I was ranked diamond borderline masters level mmr, but when I played unranked as it came out I was playing against bronze and silvers.

On March 24 2013 09:54 Zephirdd wrote:
this is how it should work:

Initially, you have no MMR for both ranked and unranked brackets.
When you played a lot of unranked, the system would create a hidden MMR to place you against equally-skilled opponents.

Now you have X MMR for unranked, and ranked bracket does not have a MMR.

When you play your placement matches on ranked bracket, the system will search for an equally skilled opponent - based on the only information they have of you, your unranked MMR - and then deviate from that.

Now you have two separate MMRs for ranked and unranked.


In other words, the same way the system will place you vs similar skilled players when you first play unranked after many ranked matches, the same applies when you play several unranked and play ranked matches for the first time.

On March 24 2013 09:57 Turgid wrote:
This makes sense. Also, the other day I was playing ranked(I'm in Bronze FYI) and was placed against someone in Master League. He told me he was playing unranked and had a much lower MMR in unranked play.

On March 24 2013 10:19 igay wrote:
I played about 70 unranked games with a diamond MMR and did my placement won them all and got placed in gold. All the players I went against while doing my placement were gold, silver or bronze