Talk:Matchmaking/@comment-77.48.12.142-20120823133339/@comment-95.0.237.3-20130207200005

You are assuming that every person is the same and starts the game with the same skills. There are people who have problems controlling the mouse and there are people who played other moba games for years. They dont start the same, they dont learn at the same pace. A 150 win player can be better than a 3000 win player. A player who has 150 wins and 20 loses can get more rating (unranked or ranked) than a player who has 3000 wins and 4000 loses. Also every win and lose modify the rating differently (based on the other 9 players). So only matchmaking based on the wins will not be a good idea.

I am not claiming matchmaking or rating system is good in anyway. These days it forms team those are completely unbalanced which result in utter defeat of the inferior. But your suggestion sounds worse than it is.