Id go steal a million dollars from a bank so i could i do 2 chicks at th wait nevermind . Shit . Idk . <| sep |> Server restarts every few hours . Normal <| sep |> Please don ' t make confusions . The MMR squashing or normalization doesn ' t really matter and it ' s in no way a MMR decay ! Relatively everyone remained the same , it ' s just shifted to a different basis of reference . But after that , the better players who were active went up again , while the players who were not active stayed at the squashed point . That ' s the entire point . Then for people joining later , it ' s not a big deal because their uncertainty is still at its initial value and they will move much faster . Which means that if your skill hasn ' t deteriorated , you ' ll be where you were fast enough . But if it has , you ' ll stay a bit lower for a bit longer until you reach your skill level again . It is effectively decay .