Isn't competitive supposed to be SBMM?

[BigBallinChester]

Because I'm below 1KD and I'm getting matched against 3.0K/D players. What the ♥♥♥♥ Bungie can't you do anything right?

[Techno2k8]

No they can't!

I find the same thing, as well as other things in Comp which is worse for certain things than Quickplay.

Unfortunately you can play Comp and win 1 game and then go a 10 game loss streak and Bungie do not care because they have you playing Comp.

It's the same with Trials, Skill is not taken in to account in that because if it was I would never in this world match the likes of Frostbolt etc but I have matched them.

[Mez Koo]

A) placement matches are probably not skill based since everyone is supposed to be 0 rating.
B) K/D has nothing to do with skill, everyone has good and bad games and that player could usually be a bad player but they may be able to land their shots better in some instances leading to a higher K/D against worse players.

[Dragon]

Originally posted by Mez Koo:

A) placement matches are probably not skill based since everyone is supposed to be 0 rating.
B) K/D has nothing to do with skill, everyone has good and bad games and that player could usually be a bad player but they may be able to land their shots better in some instances leading to a higher K/D against worse players.

Interesting. I'd argue that "B" cases would be outliers and discarded from the calculation. Shouldn't be too hard to get an average while discarding X percentage of high and X percentage of low games (say 3-5%?).

I'd also be curious to know if the OP is talking about those first few placement matches and where they placed him.

[Black Hammer]

Haha, no.

[pirate135246]

no it should be rank based mm, its not fair for us to have to play against ascendant players while being gold. rank means nothing because of sbmm