Idea for better clan war matching

Say a clan has 42 members. Under the old matching rules, the system would exclude the lowest 2 trophy count players and proceed to find a 40 by 40 match. Under the new rules, however, there is the possibility of opt out. Say that 4 players have opted out, so that 38 are available for war. Who goes to war? This is the responsibility of the (co-)leader who starts the war. Assuming opt outs are respected, three more players should be left out so that the clan goes to a 35 by 35 war.

But who is going to be left out? This being the (co-)leader's decision creates a lot of tension within the team, as then whoever is left out complains about being left out. So, why don't we let the system select 35 out of the 38 available players so that the matching takes place as quickly as possible? This can happen in several different ways.

The first scenario is that the system selects say 10 (or 20 or 50 or 100) random configurations of 35 players out of the 38 available and spawns 10 searches at once. As soon as any of the 10 searches results in a match the other 9 are automatically cancelled. This procedure obviously speeds up matching.

Alternatively, SC has probably determined through statistics which clan profiles are the most usual around and thus result in the quickest matches. So, the algorithm can scan the clan and exclude the players who are bound to cause difficulty to the algorithm. Such players might be, for example, a player much weaker than the others, or much stronger than the others, or a badly rushed base.

The added bonus to faster matches will be less complaining by players: if someone complains about being left out, the leadership will respond "The algorithm left you out, not us!"

What do you think?

Leaders are "leaders" for a reason. They are the ones making choices and carrying the responsibility and consequences of a (bad) decision. A good leader can give reasons for his/her choices. Outsourcing decision making to the algorithm outsources responsibility of the leader. A leader with no power and no decisions to make is not a leader at all. Be a man and make justified player choices and carry the responsibility that belongs to a leader or co-leader.

That is not the main point of my proposal. My main point is that trading off some of the responsibility will allow faster matching.

The idea is good, however the clan leader should be be able to choose the type of war (e.g. 10v10 or 40v40 war), and the leader should be able to choose who should be opt-out of the algorithm.

you want SC to solve a problem that you made yourself.

if i am your leader, i would just opt out 3 guys at the bottom, as simple as that.

does not matter is one of the guys at the bottom is my best friend, he must follow the rules, otherwise i am not qualified to be a leader.

a leader must be strict and unaffected by emotions.

I know maybe you are a leader and was blamed a lot by including or excluding some players in or from a war. But your idea still doesn't solve the problem but leave it to matching system.

Worse, your proposal will annoy more players than before. Some 3-star members will leave your clan due to being out of a war accidentally.

If it is fair enough from your point, why don't we determine who is war winner by rock-paper-scissors? That is definitely fair.

For a leader, he or she should take responsibility to deal with players selection. That's why he or she is a leader.

I don't get this...is matching taking too long? There are probably better ways to fix that.



While hopefully this would result in players being randomly left out at an even rate, what happens when the same players always get left out?


Leaders of clans that have been together a while should know who is opted out that really can't be in the war, and who could be put in, and conversely who doesn't mind sitting out, or who maybe missed a battle last war, or is the most recent addition to the clan...

I think SC has already different ideas on how to make clan wars speed up faster and match matching. you need to understand that SC is not responsible in any way for a co leader or leader to chose which clan member should go to war or who gets left behind.