Originally Posted by Chirality
How do these changes impact changing teammates?
Say person A has a 2000-rated 2v2, and needs a new teammate. Person B is now on the 2000-rated 2v2 with a personal rating of 1500.
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Does this mean that, as the average personal rating on this 2000-rated team is 1750, that the team will play 1750-ish-rated teams?
What does it mean, though, to say that "they will earn points based on personal rating"? That a win for the team vs. a 1750-rated opponent will give person A 30 personal rating points, and a loss will lose 1, but for person B a win will gain 1 personal rating point and a loss will lose 30?
Doesn't this mean that you can essentially powerlevel someone even faster now?
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The problem here is that people would try to game the system that way - say having 3 people leave a 2k rated 5v5 and immediately rejoin to tank the average PR to 1700. Sounds like a good way to push a couple of people on the team 2200 (albeit slowly) against lower competition. It works fine if only a few people are doing that but once it's a wide spread phenomonon you'll start runing into more and more teams at that 1700-1750 level doing the same thing and you won't be able to maintain a high enough win:loss ratio to keep the team rating from sliding back down.