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There is such a system in place actually [0]. It is believed that the playerbase is separated into pools [1] somewhat based of this number. How it is calculated is anyone's guess.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/46y4v8/dota_2_behavi...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/351mdk/discussion_do...

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Then it's not working. There are console commands that will print your toxicity metric. I routinely score ~9800 out of 10,000, i.e. friendly, and several times a week am matched with very toxic players.

Are you on the extreme ends of mmr? I have a high rating and rarely get people that don't get along. On the other hand, with the introduction of international ranked, maybe they shelved this for a consolidated pool.

I noticed as soon as my rank was high enough that I wasn't facing brand new players it became much more enjoyable.

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