“@Kellomies even now there are other ratings, wn6/7, efficiency, performance, kill/death, spec. damage, spotted damage and so on. Those will not change with skill based MM.”

An unicum playing only against unicums will have exact the same “wn6/7, efficiency, performance, kill/death, spec. damage, spotted damage” as the bad player only fighting bad players…

For example: A good player can (most times) handle two bad players synchronously. While against 2 other good players, he will have big troubles to fire even a 2nd shot…

In WoT skill is mostly based on the fact, that on one hand you rarely make mistakes and on the other hand that you are able to take full advantage of the enemy’s mistakes.
(..skill of solo person – skill of a whole team is different of course… platoon tactics, global strategic decisions, etc.)

There can be something like “tiers”, based on the rating you got. Similar to leagues in SC2 for example. you start in “bronze”, after you get some rating, you move up and so on.

I agree, its best the fun factor should be for everybody not just for “favored” players.

@Kellomies

you will still know who the better player is based on damage dealt vs damage recieved and K/D ratio.

Everything else is specualation.