While both Warzone and Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 are open with your skill rating in ranked modes by placing you in colour coded ranks, the skill-based matchmaking, or SBMM, in other modes isn’t as transparent. Since SBMM is such a contentious aspect of modern shooters, players would love to know how they’re rated against other players.
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Thankfully, there’s now a way to find out what your SBMM skill rating is in both Warzone and Black Ops 6. You have to put in a little bit of work to do so, but it’s worth it if you play with friends or regularly feel you’re being placed in matches that are too high-skilled for you.
How To Get Your SBMM Score In Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 And Warzone
The way you get your SBMM score for Call of Duty titles is to log a Subject Access Request with Activision. By law, logging a Subject Access Request with any company requires them to provide you with all the information they hold about you. Therefore, logging one with Activision requires them to share your SBMM rating with you.
Thankfully, that means you don’t have to mess around with third-party websites to get your SBMM score, as you often do with Call of Duty-based statistics. Therefore, you don’t need to worry about sharing account details. You need to follow the steps below to get your Call of Duty SBMM score.
- Click on ‘Submit a new request’ on the Activision Support Privacy page.
- Select your country of residence and tick the box to confirm you accept the terms. Then click ‘Proceed to privacy and data protection portal’.
- Select the ‘Access my personal information (subject access request)’ option.
- Log into your Activision account and follow the steps.
- Confirm you’re not a robot then accept Activision’s Terms of Use once more.
- Then, hit ‘submit request’ and ask to be notified by email if your request changes.
You will likely need to wait a day or two for the information to be sent to you. Just sit tight, the details will arrive in your inbox before long. The details will arrive as an HTML file, so export it to the spreadsheet service of your choice and you’ll be able to see everything you’re looking for.
Obviously, the only way to know what your skill rating number means is to compare it to another player’s. You can ask your friends what theirs are, or try and find out what rating better players than you have.
Hopefully, this means Acitvision is being more open with their SBMM rating system and how it works in each of their games. That would inevitably lead to fewer complaints.
