Why does Rocket League do this...?

Added: 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]When you quue for a game of ranked in Rocket League, the game uses your MMR or matchmaking rating to find players within a similar range to match you up for a game. This number used to be hidden until very recently. Now, I'm not sure exactly what Rocky did in the past couple years, but I do know that they changed their MMR Q system algorithm at some point, which means while you're queuing, the range of MMR that the game allows players to queue into you increases. I'm simplifying that a lot, and I don't think the actual algorithm is known. But what I do know is that the window is affected by multiple factors.

[00:00:25]Two of which being your Q time and win rate. If your win rate is really high, the game will try and see if you're able to play at a higher level. With all that being said, it's very common in SSL to have a lobby of two highle SSL players paired up with a lower level player. You have two players outpacing the lobby by the other two players, and the two faster players are not used to the slower play. So, everyone in the lobby is uncomfortable, which isn't the end of the world if it's not so often. It's very common that Grand Champ players might be on a win streak, and their MMR window is way bigger than usual. So, the highle SSL players will queue and instantly get that match. I'll show you exactly what I mean in these games today. And the final game was one of the funniest matches I've played in a while.

[00:00:59]Shout out to the player BLT No Bacon.

[00:01:01]You'll see when we get there. I hope you guys enjoy the matches and the discussion about the rank system. Let's get right into it. Hello and welcome to another episode of ranked 2v2. My name is Stack today. And honestly, I wish I was recording earlier cuz we had some really interesting interactions with people. But let's get into this. Let's try to get our top 100 back. Try and play 50 off Turtle here. Bump one.

[00:01:21]Should be uh Bob to go for this or S.

[00:01:24]We're against Bob.

[00:01:26]Wonder who S is. Good 50. It's kind of awkward, but hopefully this bounces decently.

[00:01:33]Oh, I don't like that. It's probably a goal.

[00:01:37]Yeah, that's a really aggressive challenge for my teammate who says he's Zen.

[00:01:41]Don't think Zen would be jumping for this with me. I obviously was beat off my first touch. Maybe I should just not go for an air dribble setup there. But either way, my teammate should definitely not go because the touch that the they are making, they're rushing. Oh my gosh. Uh they are rushing to try and make a touch.

[00:01:57]This is awkward, but we're good.

[00:02:02]Nice.

[00:02:03]Good bump. This is good. Grab mid. Go grab mid. Wait, it's open. Oh, good save.

[00:02:11]I should beat him here. So, I'm going to hit this over.

[00:02:14]It's fine.

[00:02:18]Sidewall.

[00:02:19]I'm going for this. I don't care.

[00:02:23]All right. S. Just wait for them. That's fine. This guy's kind of stuck in a spot. That's really awkward.

[00:02:31]Put it over him. I don't actually want to hold on to that cuz I want to get out of here as soon as possible. Leaves it for his teammate. This could be a bump play. That's really bad from them. And this should be a goal. Oh my. No, it's a demo. Unlucky.

[00:02:46]It's a decent challenge cuz it actually comes back to me.

[00:02:50]doesn't try to block it high.

[00:02:54]Oh, I wanted to go from there. Oh my.

[00:02:57]Okay, fake. It just goes.

[00:03:01]Good boost grab. This is a bit of a messy game so far. This is This is nothing new for me. All right, nice one touch. No, you had the setup, man. It's a 1 v one.

[00:03:14]Got to play your ones. That might be good. Going to save bump turtle here.

[00:03:18]Get in there. S. He's got He's not doesn't have control. Nice. Good play.

[00:03:22]Okay, one v one again.

[00:03:26]Yeah.

[00:03:28]All you good first touch.

[00:03:32]Good second touch. All right, we have space here.

[00:03:38]Decent. Should be S to get this. Don't panic. Good control. I love this. Good play. All right, S. We need a goal back.

[00:03:46]Are we going for this? We're go. We're pinching.

[00:03:50]Okay. Time.

[00:03:52]Okay.

[00:03:54]Bang. Behind him. Yes. There we go.

[00:03:57]Thank you. Thank you. A little awkward this game. Uh it was a pretty long queue, so I don't know where we're at here. I know Bob is around uh 1,900 cuz I played him earlier. Um and his teammate crashed out on him. So, we'll see what we'll see what happens. He's actually playing pretty good.

[00:04:17]All right, that should be just open.

[00:04:18]Yeah, that was a bad flick from uh from Turtle. This is not the This is not the Turtle that we we know and love as a caster. Also, XPro. Uh this is someone else. I don't know who this is, but um yeah, bad flick there and I just get like a boom down the field. And this is actually good for us if I can jump for this.

[00:04:35]I do block it a little bit. Okay, that was really bad if Bob shot that on target. He's going to go for a touch here. Trying to force him off. S has full boost. Love that touch down the field.

[00:04:49]I mean, I love that shot. That should not have been a goal. Turtle, where happened here, man? Why are you going up the wall to the right? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Let's go for a fake here.

[00:05:00]Turtle, you got to watch for the shot over him. I got 36 boost. This guy's going for boost right now, so I'm going to try and Ah, that was so bad. Oops.

[00:05:11]I'm going to fake the touch here and head back. Good save. I probably should not even fake the touch there. Just go back. This is a bad touch from Turtle, though.

[00:05:22]I think I beat him. Yeah. Yeah. It's not the best 50, but it's not easy for Bob to collect. Double demo is okay.

[00:05:29]Hello. I spawned over Turtle.

[00:05:37]Bump Bob a little bit. Maybe a shot.

[00:05:39]Good try. I understand why he waited there cuz he can't really know. I'm going to fake this. I will say when I played Bob, he seems to get baited by that a lot. Oh, that works.

[00:05:50]Whoa, wide turn.

[00:05:54]I'm going to wait on this.

[00:05:57]Good. Play 50. That's good.

[00:06:00]Grab this mid from uh my teammate was trying to go for it, but he's going to get it stolen uh by Turtle there. So, I just went for the the boost steal instead. It's much more important that we that might be open.

[00:06:12]Well, it might have been if he just waited.

[00:06:16]That's okay as well. They're both still very low, so I know I can go for a challenge there cuz Turtle overcommitted. Bob overcommitted.

[00:06:24]Watching the bump here. All right, now we have space.

[00:06:28]I knew he was going to do that. I just didn't get enough of a flick that I wanted. That's a good touch. Like, turtle panic. Grab the boost. Take it back. It's all we need to do. Our presence is more than enough to to force something there. Okay. Wow. And uh they both went. Okay. Honestly pleasantly surprised how that game went after the first like 30 seconds. I was a little bit worried, but honestly not bad. Um yeah, we're trying to get back to uh top 100. Yeah, it was 1700. I had a feeling that there was a couple lower level players in this lobby and that seems to happen a lot. Like you get like two people around the same rank and then you get like two people around the same rank that are much lower. It's very weird.

[00:07:02]All right, game two. Yeah, I don't know why they do like they do the thing where they open up the windows super far. Like I I don't know why it happens so quickly. Um I actually just tweeted out uh recently. Come here. Nice bump. I tweeted out recently about how I want them to add a checkbox. Need to go for this. You're the one with boost.

[00:07:23]I'm bumped. But you got to jump again, teammate.

[00:07:28]Yeah, I'm screwed. um where I would I would prefer longer Q times if it it guarantees the window of MMR does not open up as much because like I got this DFI guy here and I I know Bob and uh DAP are both decently high.

[00:07:46]Uh so I don't think this guy's as high, you know what I mean? Like he's definitely going to be lower. Um and the funniest example of that is actually like recently, well not recently, it was actually a bit ago. Um, you need to come back. What? Oh my goodness. Um, where I think it was me and like first killer versus Daniel and uh and like a 1600. It was crazy off wall fake open. Maybe it's okay. It's a good pinch. I'm just going to go for this. I don't even care.

[00:08:22]Like I don't even care. It's going to pinch up.

[00:08:26]I can. Yeah, like he's already jumping.

[00:08:27]You see what I mean? Like I I already know this is going to be cooked. It's just going to be cooked cuz like anyone who's at at the decent level seeing this guy go on the backboard would not be jumping right there. He's not in a great situation, but like you can definitely challenge that that pop down. We're just going to be we're just going to be in toast this entire game. I already know.

[00:08:44]We could try. We could certainly try the bump, but like I know the other two the other two opponents and I don't know this guy, which is always a bad sign. Uh, all right. DFX, hit it to your corner.

[00:09:01]Nice. Get the boost. Get the boost. Get the boost. Flip. Unlucky.

[00:09:06]All right. So, now we're going to be cooked.

[00:09:10]Never mind. This guy trolled. Okay, maybe we're okay. Maybe we're okay. And maybe I shouldn't be so pessimistic. I feel like I do this a lot where I like I already kind of write off the game when the game does this to me. And it happens quite a lot. So, I I think I mentally check out. It probably is not a good idea. I can definitely like every every lobby's winnable. Actually, that's not true. Like I said, Daniel was absolutely cooked.

[00:09:31]Instant challenge. I'm going to get bumped. Good. Good beat though.

[00:09:36]Maybe every lobby is winnable. DFA, get that boost. There's your flip. You found it. You located the button.

[00:09:43]Okay, I'm going to go back here. I'm scared to go first. I'd rather Oh my goodness.

[00:09:51]Oh my goodness. Like, I don't know. I don't I didn't see a world where a 50 doesn't happen here. You know what I mean? Like how did that How does that happen? Like I just can't predict that.

[00:10:00]Am I supposed to predict that? I don't think I can. I don't know. Like the one It was a straight challenge towards a ball teammate. Come on. Hit it to me. I probably could have ripped that on target. That's my bad.

[00:10:15]Oh, wait. Nice challenge. Nice challenge.

[00:10:31]Holy, dude.

[00:10:33]Oh, and now he's mad at me cuz I stopped moving. Wait, he trolled.

[00:10:48]I don't think I have the mental stability to play this game anymore, guys. I think it's I think it's over for me. All right, let's cheat up here. We We got We got time. Bump him off. I have to go for the ball here. Unfortunately, the dab can have the boost.

[00:11:04]Okay, you got to jump. He's mad. He's mad at me. I can't go for that. If I If I full commit, I'm diving with zero boost. But this guy doesn't understand that, and that's okay.

[00:11:14]Yeah.

[00:11:16]Yeah.

[00:11:18]And he forfeits. Listen, if I go for the ball there, if I go for the the corner boost, Dapdap just shoots it. If I go for the ball, Dapdap will just 50 me and then play the zero boost on the He doesn't understand. He doesn't understand. And that's okay. And that's okay. I have to like I have to like allow myself to not get annoyed at a 1700 because otherwise I'm going to lose my I'm lose all my hairs by 20 20 27.

[00:11:41]Come here, DAP. All right, Diffy, you got enough to boom this. That's actually okay.

[00:11:50]Oh, I'm I don't know what I'm doing at this point. That was my That was on me. Okay, whatever. It's cooked. Let's Let's forfeit. Let's hedge our bets. 1743.

[00:12:04]1743. I'm going to call it 1743. Let's see if I can get it on the dot. Okay, not as low as I thought, but still not the most fair lobby. Like Bob's only like 15 MMR off of me. Yeah. Yeah, it's unlucky. Unlucky. Unlucky. Also, DAP's much lower than he should be. Dapdab's like really good. I'm not sure why he's at 1900. Also, I feel like I'm overly critical, but at the same time, it's like this is the top rank of the game.

[00:12:29]It should be like it shouldn't be just like common common fundamental mistakes.

[00:12:33]You know what I like it should be majority of the time it should be an outplay or like a really good team play but for some reason it's not and I don't know like if it's just two's culture or what it is but like people just diving at everything and it just I don't know if it's like the the range of MR like I said is a problem it could be I feel like it is because uh I know there's not many players up here but I would rather wait like you know a couple more minutes like I got two people I know and I got BLT and no Bacon you know what I mean like just I don't know and that like In that time of me playing free play, that was the entire Q window for that. So, let's see what happens here. Uh J.R.

[00:13:09]Bond just clears it to me.

[00:13:13]Good first touch. Wait, he's cooking under him. That was a good pass from my teammate. Actually, it looks like he missed, but it's actually a really good pass off the backboard. Wait, clear it.

[00:13:23]It's open. Shoot it. Let's go. Maybe maybe BLT B. No. Bacon's the goat is is no. So, what what's what's an LT?

[00:13:34]Don't worry about it. Got you. It's dope. All right, I'll cheat up here.

[00:13:41]Maybe I underestimated this guy. This guy, cuz I I I like I said, I know these two. Maybe they're a little bit lower and there's actually like a decently normal lobby or everyone's higher. Could be higher. Sometimes uh sometimes it's like more even, but it it it really depends. This guy's actually the goat. I like this guy.

[00:14:00]I wait for him to get back here. He threw the ball away, so I'm going to go instantly and pop it back to my teammate who now has time to dribble. I like that he's taking control. Look at this. Okay, it ends up like over my over my net, which is kind of tough, but I like the I like the original like control here.

[00:14:17]What what would have been good there is a softer touch.

[00:14:24]Okay, I do bump Jeremiah here.

[00:14:27]That's a one v one. Got to go fast though. Yeah. Okay. The control is good if you don't uh Oh my goodness. That was almost a goal if you don't like waste time. I just demo both of them. I would have loved that boost LT, but uh that's fine. 17 boost is enough to shoot this. I could have shot that. He actually just drove up at me. That's fine. The demo's good. I don't have boost. Don't pass. It's okay. Ooh, I got high touch.

[00:15:01]Uhoh.

[00:15:02]No, he gets bumped. That's tough.

[00:15:06]Unlucky. Unlucky.

[00:15:08]So, I was hoping there is that he would follow right on the 50. Like me going for that aerial. I know he's scared of the getting the pop over, but there was like the way he set up his aerial wasn't that dangerous.

[00:15:17]I can't shoot it. It's too close. He's got the boost now, too. Hopefully get the demo.

[00:15:22]Good try.

[00:15:26]Good 50 actually because it goes back to me.

[00:15:30]Decent 50. Gets the demo but needs to be closer. That's good. Get that boost.

[00:15:36]Nice.

[00:15:37]Oh, reset. Cook mechanics.

[00:15:41]Ew. What a shot.

[00:15:45]This guy's carrying me. Let's go. I pass it back.

[00:15:53]Good. All right, Billy. Bit no bacon.

[00:15:55]Yeah, fake them.

[00:15:58]Close. I like the original fake though.

[00:16:02]Decent 50. Just go for the boost.

[00:16:06]That works. Little scary though. Yeah.

[00:16:11]And when I said go for the boost, I meant the uh the back corner, not the mid. The mid's scary cuz he could shoot that.

[00:16:20]All right.

[00:16:22]This guy's got zero boost, so we should be okay to I can't get the 50. That's really bad for me. All right, built no bacon. Pop off, King.

[00:16:34]Okay.

[00:16:36]All right.

[00:16:37]All right.

[00:16:39]All yours.

[00:16:44]Good demo. It's actually not the best cuz he spawns back, but he This guy's like very little boost. That was weird.

[00:16:49]He like slowed down the ball. Oh, wait.

[00:16:59]What is going on this game?

[00:17:02]Am I supposed to predict that? Like I can't turn. I can't turn that.

[00:17:10]I'm feeling like I'm a spectator. Okay, Jeremiah gets the boost.

[00:17:15]Okay, I will say this guy is very aggressive, so it's it is hard for me to get present on the ball. Like I can't Yeah. Like I can't do anything.

[00:17:23]Oh my god. Okay. I just keep getting in.

[00:17:27]I just keep letting him play and I can't play myself. I I I should not like push up for that as well, by the way. But like it's just like Wait. Score. No. The chip would have been good.

[00:17:37]All right. Under him across. Shoot it.

[00:17:41]Let's go. Nice.

[00:17:44]I just can't get involved. Oh man. Today has been crazy. I mean, it ranked us crazy every day. I don't know. I don't know what's up with it.

[00:17:53]Demo get this. I got the boost. I heard the noise. So that's good. He has to go back.

[00:17:58]All right, built bacon. That's okay.

[00:18:01]Take control here.

[00:18:06]It's a double demo, so unfortunately he can't be there for that. Does clear down the field. It should be my teammate picking up pads back pass. I'm so scared of going for Yeah. Like what am I supposed to do?

[00:18:24]So annoying, dude. I don't want him to shoot for a free either. I don't know.

[00:18:36]I don't know, man. I'm so lost in these games. I just don't know where to be or what to do. Thank you. Thank you. We got a minute 22. We can we can bring this back.

[00:18:47]What What are we doing? Oh my god. Is that a goal?

[00:18:54]I'm going up high. No, you can turn though.

[00:18:58]Nice.

[00:19:01]Wait, this is good.

[00:19:08]All right, built. Don't bacon. Just wait. Just wait. Just wait.

[00:19:13]Is that in? Please tell me it's in.

[00:19:16]Let's go, dude. I get good force. Good force.

[00:19:22]If I got bumped there, it was really bad for us. But, you know, good force. We're We're We're tied. We're tied. What a what a game. I'm not playing perfectly, but I'm also like so awkward and lost. I don't know. Ooh, I got the boost. You can go. There's no one on you.

[00:19:36]That's good. Baited at one. Jeremiah, what you got? Full control.

[00:19:42]Okay, it's fine.

[00:19:44]Good.

[00:19:46]I probably could have stolen his boost there. Hit around. Good patience. I would have liked that first touch. Oh, don't give them the ball.

[00:19:56]Oh my.

[00:19:58]I don't like this. This situation is very bad. Good control. That's very good. Now he's going to take it.

[00:20:06]Okay, I saw enough that he got scared.

[00:20:10]So many scary situations.

[00:20:16]It's across to me.

[00:20:20]I'm going to let him try to take this.

[00:20:22]That's good.

[00:20:26]Oh, I wish I was there.

[00:20:29]He was closer. If he like put it more to the right, I would have been a perfect shot placement.

[00:20:34]Score. Shoot it. Shoot that back pass.

[00:20:38]Back pass. Back pass. Back pass. Back pass. Back pass.

[00:20:45]Good. 50.

[00:20:51]What a save. No. B team. You had 50.

[00:20:55]Okay, we're good.

[00:20:59]Bang. Five boosts in a dream. Go ahead.

[00:21:01]Go ahead. You said you got it. I would have jumped earlier.

[00:21:06]Oh.

[00:21:09]He's going to go high. He's going to go high. You got that. You got that. You got that.

[00:21:16]Got to watch for the bump.

[00:21:19]Play 50. Perfect.

[00:21:22]Okay. All yours.

[00:21:24]No.

[00:21:26]Get the mid.

[00:21:33]Why am I jumping for that? Oh no.

[00:21:36]Good save.

[00:21:38]Oh, I'm trolling.

[00:21:40]I got it.

[00:21:44]Careful.

[00:21:48]You got it, bacon. Or no bacon.

[00:21:54]Boom. Big boom. We're going to win this over. Go BLT.

[00:22:06]Yes.

[00:22:09]What a game, dude.

[00:22:12]I'm lightheaded.

[00:22:16]Oh, my brain is imploding.

[00:22:24]I did not play well at all that game. I will I will be honest. But yeah, 1826.

[00:22:28]Okay. Little cooked, but good good good game. That was that was fantastic. I I enjoyed that one. Uh, hope you guys enjoyed. Uh, yeah. I don't know why they do this that the cues are instant, but like look at my MMR. I don't mind waiting a little bit. I don't know why they open up the window that quickly and it makes it it's kind of not fun for anyone because like in situations where it's like a lot of the times it's two people that are higher MMR and then they're paired up with lower MMR. The lower MMR people are like outpaced and they probably feel really uncomfortable and they're not really learning a lot cuz it's like at a it's at a it's at a level where you can't really like, you know, absorb what you're doing wrong uh properly. And then the the higher level players are trying to make up for a lot of mistakes and they're super uncomfortable and super unhappy. And I've seen like so many interactions.

[00:23:12]Like it's just insane. I don't know why they do this. Like I I I want a checkbox. Just a little check box that says, "Hey, I don't mind waiting like 5 10 minutes if we find a couple more players around the same skill level."

[00:23:24]Hope you guys enjoyed either way. Super funny episode. Shout out uh LT, man.

[00:23:28]Well played. Good good good game there.