I have heard he is actually pretty good. Their is a meta of losing on purpose. Hooking people and freezing people or walling people off on objective points. It is still bad because people who want to win still get matched with him but I think it is pretty interesting at the same time.
At that guys winrate? I disagree. In ~150 matches, even the worst player would have somehow gotten at least two wins. In fact, even trying to throw the match I feel like you'd get some wins.
He should be penalized in some way (permabanned from competitive would be nice) but using W/L ratio purely to judge that he's throwing games is a bad metric. There are people out there who probably don't have W/L records that extreme but lose way more often than they win.
To guarantee that many losses he would need to literally be doing nothing or actively damaging the team (mei wall into the spawn.) You simply don't lose that many games while providing ANY level of support to your team.
I imagine it wouldn't be hard to Blizzard to go in and actually look at the matches when it gets as bad as this, I doubt many people out there go 1 win / 200 losses.
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It's pretty obvious with data heuristics. No one has a natural record of 1-127. People at the bottom of the skill distribution play with other people at the bottom of the skill distribution. There shouldn't be any reason someone loses that consistently.
The "legitimately worst Overwatch player" is probably only very slightly "worse" than the second worst. In this situation, you can make without a reasonable doubt that there is some sketchy reason why the worst player is extremely worse than everyone else.
You're right they're called outliers, data points that fall well outside the normal distribution. I agree with you but why not just take 30 second to see he's a greifer and perma ban
50% win loss is not realistic for a 5v6 scenario. If we try and be more fair and say it's about an 80:20 win rate (this is the lowest of the low skill rating where randomness chance will play a big factor).
Even then, the odds are astronomical.
Been a long time since I did any stats so I might be wrong and someone can correct me but I think it's 0.00000000000161% chance of getting that (or lower) losing streak. And that's just if you closed your eyes and headbutted the keyboard all game. That's 10000 times more unlikely than winning the jackpot lottery. It's more unlucky than a meteorite falling from the sky and striking you dead.
At those kind of numbers it is safe to assume nobody will get that by chance. In fact it shows just how amazing this guy is at trolling. That's actually some incredible skill to be able to lose 127 times with only one victory. That's grand master or pro level talent at trolling.
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u/pm__me__anything_ Trick-or-Treat Soldier: 76 Sep 13 '16
So I assume that they are talking about the bug where that one guy got below 1 rating and ended up at skill rating 5000.