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Supposedly DOTA 2 matchmaking is divided into brackets.

I want to know which difficulty bracket I'm in. How can I find this information?

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The best way to currently check your difficulty bracket:

  1. Run Dota2 and open watch tab
  2. Select Recent games
  3. Press Filter button
  4. Write your nickname
  5. Select skill level (low, mid or high)

This way you can see which of your recent games have been in low, mid or high skill bracket.

Keep in mind that the high bracket still varies in skill greatly, so that might not be a a very accurate indication of your current ladder standing.

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I don't think it's a very good idea, since Dota2 can't correctly guess match skill levels. Checking first few pages with very high skill level resulted in short (25min at most) boring matches. Meaning it was one sided to the extent that a team was averagely 5-6 levels higher than the other :( – Gajoo Jan 27 at 10:45
also based on this thread where they partially explained their MMR system those brackets has nothing to do with player's ratings. – Gajoo Jan 27 at 14:52
For what's it worth, the difficulty bracket is the only way to track your progress at the moment (well there's the DotaBuffRating). And better players do end up in the higher brackets. But unfortunately a significant portion of Dota2 matches end up being one-sided. – JBeurer Jan 30 at 9:06
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According to sources, the way to do it is:

To check your current "ranking" you must first enable the console (which you should either know how to do or know how to google). Then then launch game, open console and type these commands

developer 1

dota_game_account_debug

i think that's the proper way to check your MMR atm. dont forget to disable developer after you check it, since the developer mode will make u see red text in-game

However, this has been patched out, apparently. Therefore it's no longer possible. :(

Follow up:

Rank = mmr If you picked veteran, you start at 3000 MMR. It seems if you picked something else you start lower. Rank uncertainty = some kind of K factor used in determining your new MMR's after games.

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Hi Simon, if you're quoting a source, would you mind linking the source so that people can read the whole article/thread if they wish, and we can give credit to the original author? Thanks. – agent86♦ Jan 6 '12 at 16:53
added thanks for that :) – Simon Jan 6 '12 at 17:27

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