Why do Some Argue Against Skill Based MM?

ImBonzo, on Jun 03 2021 - 22:50, said: As an evil user of XVM (yeah, I use it. And play arty. Shut-up), my hope is to not see MM provide matches like the following to ANYONE: > A tier 8 game in which one team had 5 above average, unplatooned, players (green and above), and no tomatoes. The other team had 1 green player and 2 tomatoes. I, and most of my crappy colleagues, would prefer that the "wealth" be spread. In this example, team A had a "yellow" Lansen player and team B had a "blue" one. Why couldn't MM swap those two?? Plus one other similar trade, making 3 above average vs. 3 above average. And, I am not saying only address the above-average players, but want to make my example more clear. One of 2 things are most likely to happen in the above game: the above average players will dominate and the less-than on their team will run around catching crumbs. In that case, the other team's lowly players don't "just get better" by being wiped out and the same team's crumb-catchers don't either. -OR- The "good" players will sit in the back, let their "lowly" players fight and die, then swoop in to clean up the mess to improve their P/R.  > a Tier 8-10 battle: Team A had a "blue" and a "green" in Tier 10, a platoon of 2 tier 9 heavies (one "purple" and one "blue" ), a "green" tier 9 TD player, and a "blue" tier 8 MT player. The rest were "yellow" or worse, including one tomato tier 8 TD player. Team B had one tier 10 "green" MT player. The rest were "yellow" or worse, including a tomato tier 8 TD player. The outcome is obvious. The frustration on Team B, equally so. Why does this need to happen? It doesn't. If one team has a stellar platoon, why not WHEN POSSIBLE offset that with random players of similar abilities on the other team? The difference in sum of the P/Rs or other performance measurements must have been huge. I would advocate total team (pick a performance measurement)s be within 10-15% whenever possible.

Random battles can still be random as to with whom you play, the equipment brought into the battle, etc., but with a mild LSBMM (Loosely Skill Based MM).