It really come down to if the system can find people within your elo range and also within your # of win range. if after a time limit the system can't find a perfect match, it will have no choice but to increase the search range. That's why you are still getting some people with hundreds of wins over you.

Lyte and I want to know is this, the longer the queue time the better "match result" you will get, but it comes with a cost (of time). Is the current 30 seconds increase in queue time worth the benefit of matchmaking with additional consideration of # of wins?

It actually works, I haven't had terrible baddies in 2 days, sure skill level shows, or sometimes a person just having a bad game, but there is no utter baddies yet, that's good news.

IT WORKS.

Cut it down to 20s or something. 30s is basically double the queue time.

Is this also effecting Arranged ques? 5v5 and such

Reserved for comment after playing some games.

Does this mean I will finally have SHORT queue times?
Super excited to get off work to try.
As it is right now, my normal queue time is 10-20 minutes, which is why I usually default to playing against AI (which is usually an instant queue).

That's what the Elo system does, it's not exactly win to loss ratio but it rates you based on your wins and losses, they're now combining that system with this new one to find player near your Elo who have also played the same number of games.

Imagina if W:L was used exclusively, the player who has won 15 games and lost 10 would be matched against played who have won 1.5K and lost 1k... That would be much much worse than the current system.

I would like to know, if you have 10 wins in Ranked, but 2000 in normals, for example, will it take in to account your normal wins in matchmaking, or just ranked?

Does the system take your skill range first, and then search for players in queue with similar wins based on your skill level, or does the system look for other players queue'd with similar wins as you first and then check for skill range?

It may seem redundant, but if it's skill range first, the games will be more even, I believe. Smurfs will likely only have a few wins but potentially a higher skill level, especially if they did well in their placements.

Ofc, if it treats both as mutually inclusive, then my fears are unwarranted.