[FAQ] Match-making system

Sgt_Stiener, on Nov 22 2010 - 13:40, said: Merig00
A question I have is whether this table is supposed to represent a distribution, or whether the probability of winding up in each battle level is not equal.
I ask because I have been recording the top vehicles that have been present in 40 battles in the Leopard, PzIII and Hetzer, and only 1 battle had a tier 7 as the highest vehicle. All the others had mostly tier 8s with a number of tier 9s and 10s.
In part I think the confusion and frustration many people have with these low tier vehicles is that they so rarely get the low tier battles as suggested by the table. This maybe caused by either the fact there are simply too many high tier vehicles being played or that the system is trying to balance from the top down, with lower tiers being vacuumed up to balance out the heavies.
Could you explain how the balancer is working (i.e. top down or otherwise) and whether the distribution of battles is heavily skewed towards the higher tiered possibilities shown on the table.
Thanks.