I really hate when news sites lure you in to read a story . It dosent get mych wirse than this story . It wasn ' t hardcore porn , it was R rated . It wasn ' t CNN who broadcast it , but the cable provider . <| sep |> That sucks ! Hope he understood ! <| sep |> The main reason given for squashing the MMR was to make players of very different levels to have more chance to be matched against each other . Because the preseason was a mess , this was a way to help to adjust it . Then you just hope that the algorithm works and the skill will be better represented . And this is what Blizzard did at the start of Season 1 from what i know . Is there something else ? Maybe they shifted the mean downwards as hotslogs did , but i ' m not sure about that . But even if they did , it doesn ' t matter that much because of the raised uncertainty which should lead you to your true MMR faster . What i was first trying to disambiguate is the concept of decay . To give an image a decay is like a fruit becoming rotten over time . If you don ' t have an input of time , you should not speak about decay . Maybe there ' s something else , but it ' s not a decay