Honestly (and this is from personal experience), I think its because of the stale meta. Unless you're a super serious player, it may just be that you're not paying as much attention, not reading the ladder very effectively, or even just getting tilted more easily - all of which will affect your gameplay. What I recommend is just play less until the new expansion hits and remember to take breaks when you START getting tilted, not after. Enjoy & try not to get too burnt out
(...)Meaning should be: It seems that the matchmaking is nor trying to understand what deck you play and includes this in the matchmaking itself. It gives you an opponent how plays a deck what is strong against your type of deck so you have a challenge if you play against it.
Makes that any sense to you or still not writing it correct down?
No, it doesn't make any sense. Because that player you are matched against has to be effected by the same concept! Or do you say that you are among the 50% who get the bad matchups and the other 50% get the good ones?
Those are Penrose stairs you are talking about - it is simply not possible.
- NEW: Deck type (dont know how it works, but if you switch decks you will see that also your opponents change, and will pilot a deck that has a high chance to defeat you)
There is no rigged matchmaking. You are not the only human playing this game. Every time you queue up against a opponent playing a counter-deck, your opponent has matched into a game in which they are favored. If the game were hard-coded to pit players against a counter-deck, then NOBODY would get matched with ANYBODY, because for there to be an un-favored player, the other one has to be favored.
As the saying goes: "Sometimes you're the pigeon, and sometimes you're the statue"
The matchmaking is random. Confirmation bias: You only remember the times that your hypothesis was proven correct, and none of the times that it was wrong.
- NEW: Deck type (dont know how it works, but if you switch decks you will see that also your opponents change, and will pilot a deck that has a high chance to defeat you)
I can confirm this. I talked to Ben Brode a few weeks ago, and he explained to me that he randomly chose 100 accounts and "cursed" them. He asked his team to rig the matchmaking specifically against those 100 players, so that they always encounter unfavorable match-ups. Obviously, the system is not perfect, so you CAN sometimes encounter a good match-up, but this should not happen.
I'm sorry you were in the unlucky 100. I'm not sure about this, but I don't think this is IP-related, so you can probably "remove the curse" by creating a new account.
In my post above, I offered you a source of a huge amount of publicly available data that says you're not right about this. Have you looked at it yet?
No offense taken! Thats just my personal 'in game' feeling, so take it also that way.
Best advice on that is to start tracking you data. There are programs that let you do that right down to being able to save replays of your matches.
I've had situations where I felt a deck I've made was doing horrible and was about to delete the deck. Then I took a glance at my win rate via a tracker and realized that the deck had a 75% win rate. It 'felt' bad because I had run into a small losing streak after a nearly unbeatable series of games the day before. Sure enough I kept on and the losing streak faded back into wins and maintained a high win rate.
Observation and impression are powerful early warning tools that can help you detect possible issues. But they are not data and they give no facts. Trusting on them in order to start an investigation or research is a great idea. Trusting on them AS the research or investigation to find out what is wrong is folly.
That you feel that something is off is sensible. But you aren't declaring opinion but instead offering a theory: a possible fact based on research. And to the general populous no less. And without qualifiers. Worse, it's in answer to a person who asked for assistance based on hard facts to help them. That's like if someone was asking for help with a car about to break down and I tell him "go fix your transmission", then later return saying "it's just a personal feeling I had."
If you feel that the system works that way and want to stick to that then that's fine. But if you want to start helping others with your information then you'll need to get more serious about the difference between your facts and your opinions. In truth you should be doing so from the start since you could be hurting your own game by a mistaken belief, but that's your personal life. But for others, it's not an option.
Best advice on that is to start tracking you data. There are programs that let you do that right down to being able to save replays of your matches.
I've had situations where I felt a deck I've made was doing horrible and was about to delete the deck. Then I took a glance at my win rate via a tracker and realized that the deck had a 75% win rate. It 'felt' bad because I had run into a small losing streak after a nearly unbeatable series of games the day before. Sure enough I kept on and the losing streak faded back into wins and maintained a high win rate.
Observation and impression are powerful early warning tools that can help you detect possible issues. But they are not data and they give no facts. Trusting on them in order to start an investigation or research is a great idea. Trusting on them AS the research or investigation to find out what is wrong is folly.
That you feel that something is off is sensible. But you aren't declaring opinion but instead offering a theory: a possible fact based on research. And to the general populous no less. And without qualifiers. Worse, it's in answer to a person who asked for assistance based on hard facts to help them. That's like if someone was asking for help with a car about to break down and I tell him "go fix your transmission", then later return saying "it's just a personal feeling I had."
If you feel that the system works that way and want to stick to that then that's fine. But if you want to start helping others with your information then you'll need to get more serious about the difference between your facts and your opinions. In truth you should be doing so from the start since you could be hurting your own game by a mistaken belief, but that's your personal life. But for others, it's not an option.
Noted! Thanks for the constructive criticism!
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Honestly (and this is from personal experience), I think its because of the stale meta. Unless you're a super serious player, it may just be that you're not paying as much attention, not reading the ladder very effectively, or even just getting tilted more easily - all of which will affect your gameplay. What I recommend is just play less until the new expansion hits and remember to take breaks when you START getting tilted, not after. Enjoy & try not to get too burnt out
Or do you say that you are among the 50% who get the bad matchups and the other 50% get the good ones?
Those are Penrose stairs you are talking about - it is simply not possible.
One does not simply walk into Mordor,
unless they want to be the best they can be.