By dog standards , this is somehow brilliant and dumb at the same time . <| sep |> Maybe they shifted the mean slightly downwards but this shouldn ' t have any perceptible effect , as the MMRs are all relative to each others . I think the main confusion most of the players still do is to think the MMR values are absolute , thinking for example 3500 is a good MMR . If you don ' t know the full spread reactualized , this actually makes zero sense . The values in themselves don ' t matter at all , but only with respect to each other . For example , you could rescale everything between 0 and 1 . Hey dude , what ' s your MMR ? 0 . 98 . Oh wow you must be GM ! <| sep |> That feel when you would be the highest karma free agent , but you ' re locked down on a cheap deal .