homeostasis06

For some reason, EA decided to fuck the fan counts up in the later tiers. Used to be where you could go 1 and 3 and break even on fans, but now if you were to go 1 and 2 you'd be losing a decent amount of fans. Combine this with the complete and utter bullshit that is Overdrive matchmaking and you've got a complete shitshow of a mode.   Just checked and it's 8450 for a win and -6150 for a loss, which in my opinion is hilariously unbalanced. If EA wants people to enjoy their game they have to find the happy medium between both fan counts.

Just because I was curious, I went into Overdrive and documented my power level compared to my opponents for 24 matches. Unsurprisingly, I never once got a matchup that went in my favor. Also, the worst opponent I faced had 539 power while I had 524 at my highest which actually shocked me. My average power level was 521.5 while the average for my opponents was 722.29.

Quote from Pilarskijoel >> Quote from homeostasis06 >> Quote from Swaglife81

Quote from Swaglife81 >> Matchmaking gets alot better once we have more players in each tier. Like the last week in HOF I didnt play anyone who was outside of top 10k.   Price explained that its based off a 50% winning percentage. Win alot and face opponents who are winning alot. Lose alot and you start facing opponents who win alot. With a 1/1 fan ratio. Thats basically quoting him not in his exact words.   On a side note I absolutely love playing these all 88-90 Ovr defenses. I crave challenges like that. Thats how you get better at the game. Im bored facing lower overalls. Its to easy I understand where you're coming from with the competition angle, but to me, it just gets annoying when every single person I face has a higher overall than me which for some reason is increased even more pre-game. Also, I personally don't believe that's how the algorithm works as since earlier today at the reset, I've faced a team with a lower power level than me twice out of about 30 games. You're telling me that only 6 percent of the 100k plus people in overdrive today have a similar win/loss to me? All I would like is for overall to at least play a factor in matchmaking because when you're getting trashed by guys with diamond level players when you only have the free elites on your squad gets annoying.

As an extension, these teams that I face also have level 10+ coaches and captains, which leads to bigger pressures against me and larger captain bonuses for them which only exacerbates the issue.

I honestly don't understand the matchmaking in Overdrive. Supposedly there are 100k+ people playing the mode but a good 90 percent of the games I play are against people with 150+ more power than me. At the end of the last Overdrive season, it made more sense as I was in Hall of Fame. This season, however, I am in Bronze 1 and am getting matched up against 1000+ power squads much more frequently than I did when I was in Hall of Fame. I try to not let it get to me, but it happens so frequently that I wanted to put it out and ask anyone's opinion about it. Also, it doesn't seem that ranking plays much of a role in matchmaking either as I've been matched with a 100K+ rank player when I myself was in the top 5000.