I should have kept my mouth shut.
does anyone know if there is a ranking in this game? either that or the quality of players is time of day dependent. previous times I got the final round almost every time and often finished in top 2 or 3. very unlike me as usually pants at MP. however this morning logged in with my lad and the skill level has massively jumped. can barely get past round 2 and my 6 year old has no chance.
more like I expected TBH
If you were playing solo show, then yes, there is sbmm and a rating.
There are 3 buckets based on your rating
New bucket - 30 players, 30 bots
Mid bucket - 45 players, 15 bots
High bucket - No bots, everyone else.
Bots can be identified by a pc symbol if you are on pc, as players on the same platform as you don't normally have a symbol.
Other than the buckets. Lower and mid bucket also don't have all the maps. It's assumed it tries to match on rating within the buckets as well (based on portion of players in the high bucket having long queue times and only getting 40 players, rather than full games).
No one knows exactly how it matches within buckets though, other than testing as MT are awful at communicating with the community. Buckets, rating and map list are actually in the code, matching on rating within the buckets, is an assumption.
If you were playing duos, squads or any of the limited time modes, there's no sbmm there, you just get whoever is on at the time.