Silent Secret MM trick

[Zim_Xero]

WG is currently using a secret (un-announced) MM trick.  

 

It is categorizing ships into top and bottom performers within a tier, and trying to match them.  Does anyone have any comments on this?

 

BTW... you can tinfoil hat me for this one... but I am sure I am correct.

[Super_S1X]

Do you have any evidence?

[Ks_Twister]

^ what he said

[Lampshade_M1A2]

Somebody with that in-game stats program and a whole lot of time on their hands could probably put together some sort of pattern if one exists.

[VTAdmiral]

How would you even measure player skill? There is no way to do it that isn't unfair to a large portion of the playerbase.

[Spartias]

Look up some of the stats of the top clans and you'll see that it's entirely possible to consistently win and do well while winning. 

[Zim_Xero]

its not measuring or using player stats.  Its separating ships into "Top performers" and "the rest"  within each tier.  The evidence is clear if you run Belfasts, Fijis, Kamikazes, etc...  Over 50% of the time you will be matched against another similar top performing ship.  Ishizuchies and Arkansas Betas for instance, tend to get head to head more often than would randomly occur otherwise.   I'm not sure if they are doing it with Carriers, but it is evident with BBs, CAs, and DDs.

[Spartias]

Evidence first.

 

Otherwise...

 

Tin foil 

[LittleWhiteMouse]

Yeah, you can't throw percentages around without actual data to back it up, I'm afraid.  I'd be happy to help sift through replays and collect examples that you've witnessed, but we'd need several hundred games of you queueing with the same ship (yes, the exact same ship) over and over again to properly measure this.

[VTAdmiral]

3 minutes ago, Zim_Xero said:

its not measuring or using player stats.  Its separating ships into "Top performers" and "the rest"  within each tier.  The evidence is clear if you run Belfasts, Fijis, Kamikazes, etc...  Over 50% of the time you will be matched against another similar top performing ship.  Ishizuchies and Arkansas Betas for instance, tend to get head to head more often than would randomly occur otherwise.   I'm not sure if they are doing it with Carriers, but it is evident with BBs, CAs, and DDs.

But in order to know someone is a "top performer" it needs to measure player stats.

[Swine_007]

But wouldn't the top performing ships by tier and category tend to be the most popular ? Thereby putting them more often in the pool available ships waiting to enter a game because people choose them more often to press Battle with ? It would be more surprising if players chose "over 50% of the time" to play underperforming ships imho.  

 

edit: I am pretty sure the OP is referring to ships in the mix and not the players driving them.  

[grumpymunky]

[Zim_Xero]

I'm not gonna collect data on this.... cause it would take an enormous amount to prove.  I just ask you to pay attention to which ships line up against other ships.... taking into account which ships are over 51% Win Rate and which are not. 

[Rilak]

he is not talking about top players or player stats.  

just the ships themselves.  example a Belfast gets put on each team  to even it out.    instead of 2 belfasts vs 2 ARPs. each team would get a "top ship"  1 belfast 1 arp   each.

 

  i really dont think WG cares this much :) and you just happen to see lots of good ships on both teams do to people playing more of them

 

[Spartias]

It wouldn't be hard to collect data.

 

Screenshot and wait a month. Then do it again. Compare.

[More_Witches]

3 minutes ago, Zim_Xero said:

I'm not gonna collect data on this.... cause it would take an enormous amount to prove.  I just ask you to pay attention to which ships line up against other ships.... taking into account which ships are over 51% Win Rate and which are not. 

It could easily just be down to raw popularity of said ships. I will say I've noticed a significant amount of them tonight

[Skpstr]

21 minutes ago, Zim_Xero said:

 Ishizuchies and Arkansas Betas for instance, tend to get head to head more often than would randomly occur otherwise.   

 

So then you should be able to tell us what the chance of that happening should be, and what it actually is.

 

Otherwise, to quote Blue Swede, you're just "hooked on a feeling".

[BrushWolf]

25 minutes ago, Zim_Xero said:

its not measuring or using player stats.  Its separating ships into "Top performers" and "the rest"  within each tier.  The evidence is clear if you run Belfasts, Fijis, Kamikazes, etc...  Over 50% of the time you will be matched against another similar top performing ship.  Ishizuchies and Arkansas Betas for instance, tend to get head to head more often than would randomly occur otherwise.   I'm not sure if they are doing it with Carriers, but it is evident with BBs, CAs, and DDs.

Of course they are likely to be on opposite sides, the MM has a tier 4 BB and when the other ques up it has another tier 4 to put against it.

21 minutes ago, Destroyer_Kiyoshimo said:

But in order to know someone is a "top performer" it needs to measure player stats.

He is talking about ship performance not player but he needs to get some tin foil.

[Wulfgarn]

Anything is possible.

 

I see no reason to ridicule someone that's noticed something and asking  others to keep an eye out themselves.

 

 

 

 

[BearlyHereBear]

I knew it...they been puttin me at a disadvantage this whole time!!!!!

 

[Taichunger]

Lets say you are correct. To prove it, youd need a large sample, like 200 games. Then youd need a weighting system to work out the relative chance of a given ship appearing based on the number of players owning that ship and number of battles played. You might need to factor in peak vs off peak tendencies as well. 

 

There is no way you could know MMs habits without this data. Your hunch is meaningless.

[Psicopro]

I've seen 2 Gearing go up against 2 Shima before at tier X.  I've also seen 2 Gearing and a Khab against 3 Shima recently.

 

I think they simply try to balance ships by class and tier for random battles - nothing more.  Combos like the above should be allocated differently since if the MM tried to balance teams, then it wouldn't distribute the tier X destroyers they way I have observed on more than one occasion - after all it has the pieces to split the two ships equally.

[Veasel]

MM isn't even aware of RADAR equipped ships, and loves putting them all on one side.  It's seem incredibly implausible that it's taking ship performance stats into account now.

As far as I can tell MM is heavily weighted to fast queue time, so just throws anything together that can even vaguely pass as balance.   If it was doing anything remotely clever you'd expect far more balanced games, and the deviation of WR would be far less pronounced than it actually is.

Well it's either that or MM is actually a self aware strong AI, and has decided it's sole meaning in existence is to troll the player base. 

It's the only way to explain all the "great" players running 45% win rates that only ever get crap teams...if only MM gave them decent teams, then they could win (Get Carried) way more often.

 

[ForgMaxtor]

I've never seen any objective evidence that the MM takes the relative Win Rate of a specific ship (global or otherwise) into account when creating matchups, and I'd want to see hard statistical evidence or a confirmation from a WG before I'd be willing  to go down that rabbit hole.

However, IIRC WG has stated that the MM it does take into account ship nationality, and tries to distribute ships of the same type and nationality between the two teams.

So if,  for example, if MM has 4 RN cruisers to work with,  it will prefer to put two on each team.

A probable side effect of this is that popular ships like Cleveland which are often present numbers of two or more in any given game will tend to be distributed more or less evenly between the teams, but relative Win Rate of the ship type, as such, is not what is causing the MM to do this.

[Captain_Dilbert]

So what I think the OP is getting as is if you are in queue in a Fujin and there are other Fujin and/or Kamikaze R in the queue along with Minekazes in queue the MM will put the Fujin/Kamikaze R head to head and the Minekazes head to head.  But the only way to prove this out would be to get a massive sample of Fujin/Kamikaze R/Minekaze games and see what the team composition is (granted this could be done for the Belfast vs Fiji or Shinonome vs Fubuki/Mutsuki etc).  The larger question though...does anyone really care if this is indeed happening?