I remember Sledgehammer tried to deny Advanced Warfare had SBMM -- up until they banned people for "reverse boosting" (i.e. suicided themselves with grenades to lower their K:D ratio to get matchmaked with shitters). That's a tacit admission that SBMM wasn't done for the benefit of players.
That goes back to my ranting about how the metrics can be exploited really easily in all sorts of forms, you could potentially fuck with their results in such a way to mislead them or troll them.
I remember Sledgehammer tried to deny Advanced Warfare had SBMM -- up until they banned people for "reverse boosting" (i.e. suicided themselves with grenades to lower their K:D ratio to get matchmaked with shitters). That's a tacit admission that SBMM wasn't done for the benefit of players.
They were called 'Smurf's in Overwatch where high/top ranking players would start up new accounts and just steamroll everyone in the lower ranks.
That goes back to my ranting about how the metrics can be exploited really easily in all sorts of forms, you could potentially fuck with their results in such a way to mislead them or troll them.