Still Don't Understand MMR

Some people might purposely lower their MMR by dying at end game collapse since escaping is the only way to boost survivor MMR. They do this to get easier games

It’s actually not necessarily true that less skilled players have lower Grades or that high skill players have higher Grades. Grades are mainly a reflection of how many matches you’ve played in a month. A veteran player who just doesn’t happen to play much this month can be an excellent player with a high hidden MMR but a low Grade. And similarly someone who is terrible at the game despite playing a ton this month can manage to work their way to red Grade despite their MMR remaining low (since they are probably facing a lot of similarly low MMR opponents and still getting wins off them.) And I’ve personally seen a few red Grade players on streams who clearly didn’t actually know what they were doing (messing up doing vaults, running in totally straight lines with no jukes, not watching for the killer on generators, or as a killer just running past survivors in the open and so on). If I had to guess for instance there are kids who play the game a ton but who, being kids, just sometimes aren’t as good as the young adults who play a lot as well because they don’t have the same mental focus.

So while grades are probably correlated somehow with the MMR it’s not a perfect relation.

old rank or new grade aren't linked to MMR. The grade is used for a monthly pittance of points and bragging you did a little something useful a minimum number of times. They function like a checkpoint so you only go up until reset hits.

MMR is kills and escapes. Each killer has their number go up when you get a kill but the killer you got the kill with has it increase more. Survivors are all on one.

When they brought in SBMM, keeping in mind I only played a few weeks prior to that, I found it took about 10 to 20 games on the killers I'm really weak and/or new on for my SBMM to calibrate. As well, keep in mind, when your MMR is more at an enjoyable level that pipping up at Iri requires a lot of iri emblems and that requires a lot of hooks so don't focus on kills, focus on getting a lot of hooks.

Rank reset should NOT impact your MMR score (i.e. it shouldn't have any impact on your matchmaking). They are two separate systems. Let's imagine you have an MMR score of 1700 (no one knows their actual score, but I'm just giving an example). After rank reset, your MMR is supposed to stay at 1700 even though your monthly grade went back to the start. If you totally lose 5 games in a row, maybe your score goes down somewhat -- to 1600 or something -- but it could still be fairly high. Maybe you'd need 5 or more additional total losses to get to a place that is better/more balanced for you. Maybe the time of day or region you're playing in are also a factor in the kinds of matches you're getting.

I don't know. Honestly, I've personally had a pretty good experience with MMR. I don't feel like I've ever had 5 crushing defeats in a row or 5 insanely dominant victories in a row. Maybe I'm just at a good MMR score for my playstyle? Also, I keep seeing claims that MMR is "turned off" at certain times/days, but all of the matchmaking is happening behind the scenes -- we just don't know what our MMR scores are or if the MMR system is being adjusted or anything else about it. . .

MMR is just sometimes not working properly, for example when there are not many players active in your region right now. It also doesn't take into account which items/perks or maps people bring/ play on, maybe that's an issue too in your games. I think that after the latest changes (survivor buffs) the MMR ranking had to rearrange because many survivors including me got suddenly boosted by boons and new hit validation. Maybe it changes again now with the new perks.

I think MMR is very dynamic, i heard you only need like 17 games or so to go from 0 to highest possible value, so sometimes people get boosted by 3 lucky wins in a row and then they get smashed.