Fixing Matchmaking without Increasing Queue Times - World of Warships - Clyde Plays - Deep Dive E018
WOWS Matchmaking has many problems - but chief among them is that battles often end in steamrolls due to poorly matched player skill. Wargaming has said that fixing the Matchmaker will cause increased queue times - but I think we can fix it without making players wait longer in queue.
// VIDEOS REFERENCED IN THIS VIDEO
My Video on Matchmaking Fairness / Uptiering: https://youtu.be/SQoZr0r37IY
Wargaming's Matchmaking Video: https://youtu.be/r7PmOMVLgsE
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// BOOKMARKS
00:00 Intro
00:29 Video Outline
01:04 How the Matchmaker Works Today
03:46 The Complaints of the Player Base
04:57 Clyde's Beliefs: Never Give Up, Never Surrender!
05:59 "SBMM would increase queue times." - WG
06:40 The Questions to be Answered
07:08 The Experiment
07:53 List of Issues with the Dataset (for transparency)
11:11 Dataset Overview
12:13 Battle Performance Indicators
13:08 Which Indicator is best?
14:21 Battle Performance Indicator Results (Basic)
15:38 A More Elegant Way to Measure the Indicator Accuracy
16:25 Example Graph, Good Indicator
17:16 Example Graph, Bad Indicator
18:16 Battle Count in Ship Indicator (Detailed)
19:22 Account Battle Count Indicator (Detailed)
20:13 Win Rate in Ship Indicator (Detailed)
21:27 Account Win Rate Indicator (Detailed)
23:54 Average Base XP in Ship Indicator (Detailed)
24:36 Average Account XP (Detailed)
25:44 Cumulative Account Stat Charts
27:00 Three Problems with Matchmaking
28:36 Steamroll Charts
30:55 Why Players Don't Really Wan't SBMM
32:49 So - what do we do now? (My Proposal)
35:58 Why WG Won't Fix Anything
38:59 Final Thoughts
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