Nope. Didnt' miss anything....just came to the wrong conclusion. 1. Yes, for outliers like yourself, SBMM (without regard for connection speed) can be bad. You will either face very long wait times to find matches, or possibly get matches with a lot of latency because you're being paired with people who are geographically very far away. 2. If upload and download speeds are the FLOW RATE at which data can move through your internet pipe, ping time is the LENGTH of the pipe and how fast data can get from one place to another. The farther away the other computer...the longer the ping time. Regardless of whether its is someone else's console...or a dedicated server. 3. While pure connection speed matchmaking works for someone like you, or someone who lives n a remote area (few pipes) or with poor internet infrastructure (bad or leaky pipes).....it doesn't serve the average player....and HURTS the new or low skill player. A point that highly skilled players like yourself seem to be CONSISTENTLY out of touch with. There is a saying in sports. "That the best players often make the worst coaches". That's because what it takes to succeed often comes very EASILY to the very best players. So they've never been forced to think about HOW they do what they do, or how to communicate this to other people. So the best coaches, are often people who were averate to somewhat above average players (at the professional level) , because they had to struggle more to learn the game, and put more thought into how to go about playing it. Point? Being consistently thrown into games (in a comp shooter) with people who are way above your skill level is NOT FUN to a new player or a low-skill the player. Its like being dropped onto the field of an NFL game as a middle-school football player. The game is too fast. Its too confusing...and you are simply not competitive. So even when you make the right decision, you often fail because your not fast enough or accurate enough to press the advantage that right decision would have given another player. So you don't even get the benefit of even being able to recognize what was a bad decision...and what was a good decision that someone thwarted simply to do superior talent and experience. YOU DONT" LEARN. SO THERE IS VERY LITTLE IF ANY LEARNING THAT TAKES PLACE FROM THE FAILURE. JUST FRUSTRATION, HUMILIATION....AND DEMORALIZATION. You don't hear about that end of things...because most very good players either didn't go through this or that period in their gaming lives was very short....and those who DO go throughs generally don't hang around to complain about the lack of SBMM. THEY SIMPLY QUIT...AND THE GAME STAGNATES (like CoD is doing) because you can't add new players to the game with any easy fashion. Because the price of entry is too high....and players like yourself work to KEEP it that way. (Which is what you are doing right now by claiming that its bad for everyone...despite admitting in the first part of your post that is primarily just bad for people like yourself.) So what the game needs is a BALANCE between SBMM and connection speed. Below a certain ping time....prioritize skill. When prioritizing skill threatens to take push matchmaking beyond a certain time limit....or above a certain ping....open up the pool of matches to keep the ping time below the ceiling where it starts to negatively affect game play. That's whats best for everyone.

Can anyone explain how i got to top 2% in control when i know for myself i suck with 1.09 kd ratio. I guess kd really is not that important since i got to top 2% with my scrub kd lol. P.s. was top 1% 2 days ago.

You've just got to be sharper with that mouse man :/

Top tier player? U snipe with a mouse and keyboard lol

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I wouldn't class myself that good at Crucible but I always get match made against sweatys when I just wanna chill and have a good time. My play style is no where near similar to theirs. SBMM sucks. Should just base it off connections. Stupid Bungie.

I agree that SBMM is bad but in all honesty, your only upset because you know a 2.0 will be impossible to maintain!

It is based upon ELO, but having not played PvP since last IB, does it take into account your total skill or just from past few matches? I ask simply because there are the odd games where I can run a 2.0+ kd on a regular basis, I know my overall kd sucks, but as a yr 1 player I helped alot of players through the exotic PvP bounties like Thorn. So would I be judged in SBMM on recent games?

"Top tier" player upset because with skill based match making he really isnt top tier.

Don't you sweat? Shouldn't really care about your kd if that's the case.