Board Game Arena

There is something very wrong in the matcmakming in arena mode.
How possibile is that player in elite are matched with people with 100 elo that barely understood the game? They mess up all and end ruining the game with some puzzling moves.

Because Arena doesn't care about elo at all.

You sure do take advantage of that.

jrscott11022 wrote: ↑15 July 2026, 13:20 You sure do take advantage of that.

What are you even trying to say?

He plays 90% of his games against the same low rated opponent. Look at his hearts history.

jrscott11022 wrote: ↑16 July 2026, 01:57 He plays 90% of his games against the same low rated opponent. Look at his hearts history.

In Arena, whoever you're paired with you have to play. So it's not like they're intentionally pairing up vs these players and cancelling vs stronger players. They're just playing who they got paired with. Though what's with the 90% claim?

He plays the same single player in the vast majority of games. How does that happen? It's not a coincidence. Especially since that player only plays him.

jrscott11022 wrote: ↑16 July 2026, 04:17 He plays the same single player in the vast majority of games. How does that happen? It's not a coincidence. Especially since that player only plays him.

Their most frequent opponent makes up less than 10% of their games so far. That other account has faced them in less than 50% of their own games. Your numbers are off as far as I can tell. What I will grant you is that several of those games came in a high density of their most recent games, the pairing numbers are higher than I'd expect, and that individually winrate is surprisingly high, especially with that gamecount. I don't know enough about Hearts to speak to the impact those players have on each other in those games though.

Is it possible for someone to thumbs down every or almost every hearts player except for co-conspirators or fake accounts? Then coordinate game start times?