Activision will send you alarmingly detailed data for every single Call of Duty match you’ve played in the last 4 years if you ask, and players are using it to figure out their mysterious SBMM rankings [Video]

As reported by IGN, Call of Duty YouTuber TheXclusiveAce has outlined a process to access all the match-by-match data Activision has collected on you dating back to 2021’s Call of Duty Vanguard. This data includes a score used for CoD’s skill-based matchmaking or SBMM, the behind-the-scenes system by which players are paired with others of a similar skill level.

You can request the data via Activision support’s privacy and data protection portal, a system likely put in place to maintain compliance with the European Union’s more robust data privacy laws, so thanks for that one EU. There’s something darkly humorous to me about using a data privacy/protection measure as a back door to mathematically solving Elo hell, but I can’t deny TheXclusiveAce’s craftiness in figuring it out. It took a day for TheXclusiveAce to get the data, but Activision support may be seeing a glut of these requests as the word …