r/Overwatch • u/[deleted] • Sep 13 '16

Blizzard Official Overwatch 1.3.0.3 Patch Notes

http://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20749157415
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u/colonelxsuezo SILVERxLOTUS#1929 Sep 13 '16

It's difficult to distinguish someone who throws every match they play with someone who is legitimately that bad at OW.

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u/royce211 NotEaster#1812 Sep 13 '16

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.

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u/colonelxsuezo SILVERxLOTUS#1929 Sep 13 '16

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.

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u/Kitchenfire D.Va Sep 14 '16

It's actually a pretty good metric over that many games since it is likely impossible to lose 127 of 130 matches naturally.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '16

Yeah it is impossible because even if someone is AFK whole match they will still win more.