- Obi Wan Stevobi
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Posted by: III Kirby III
Social has loose matchmaking restrictions, and allegedly operates of an invisible trueskill value.
So, by playing a social playlist frequently, you are supposed to see an increased frequency of players who also play that playlist frequency.
As far as a higher frequency of matches against players of similar global Trueskill values, I think thats a complete fallacy.
If you play enough, you will end up playing mostly people around your level. Go through my game history once. In social slayer, I usually get matched with people 45 and up. When I started playing social slayer on my other account, I got nothing but low ranks and guests. Dig through a handful of games from either link, and you should see a pretty clear pattern of the hidden truskill at work in social lists. You are correct, the search isn't very strict, and you can sometimes get total mismatches (worst in BTB), but I have found that on average, it does come up with people in your true rank range more often than not, at least in social slayer.