I’m wondering how the opponent selection works in Ranked Duels. I’m at ELO 1035 and initially the search range is 1000-1080. After about 10 seconds that went up to 1000-1180. That happens a lot. It never seems to sink below 1000 which means very often I have to play against someone with significantly higher ELO.
It would be more logical if initially the range would be 1000-1070 and widen to 900-1170 after a while.
I think its because the game looks only for players in your league. You are in voyager league, thats why the game only looks for higher voyager players, when you have more ELO you will play against lower voyagers
Yeah the code applies a league lock for the first 15 seconds. During that period, the lower bound is clamped to the minimum of your current league, see the code here: https://github.com/codergautam/worldguessr/blob/master/ws/matchmakingV2.js.
If I am not mistaken, you can disable that lock in the account settings by unchecking the following checkbox:
