October 15, 2025
To reduce confusion with how the balancing system works, new player OpenSkill Ratings are now hidden. For quite some time now, balancer was treating all new players as if they had 0 OS, but you had no visual feedback on that fact. Well, now you do!
This change should also reduce frustration of new players seeing their rating fluctuate a lot up or down, which is what happens when the system has very little data. We will monitor how this change affects the community, and react accordingly if necessary.