I think the Trueskill thing works, however if your not that great, or didn’t know about it, there is a chance your stuck in a hole. Its frustrating, as digging out and winning races when your stuck with kids who lurk and ram, can be very difficult.
Come on T10 here us. We are tired of the rammers. There has to be a way to fix this. Like I’ve said in another post. Assign some people to be in the lobbies to monitor this behavior and warn then eventually ban this dirty racers. Send out a message that will give all a heads up on this so people will know in advance that this dirty purposely crashing people will not be tolerated. I race clean and always have. I would love to help with this. And sending a report on them, really does it help. Or you could simply add the collisions off lobbies. Come on help us, this crashing B. S. is killing us. HELP 
Some excellent news!
I have also noticed that online competition seems more clean and balanced since the update.
Bravo Turn 10.
Can we or have we got confirmation from T10 that they did actually change things up and it’s not placebo?
So, these Gamertags really do tell us something about the person.
Heh … I’m just giving you a hard time.
From the Feb 7 Week In Review ( News - Forza ):
“For those of you who joined us playing in Forza Motorsport 5, you might have noticed that matchmaking has improved in the Forza 5 lobbies, putting you in races with players who are more in line with your skill range.”
- Don Ente
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Just came across this…Excellent news! Not touched online for weeks due to how bad it was…session tonight!
I have noticed an issue with matchmaking over the past 10 days.
I race in C class hoppers most nights and have noticed the skill my friends and I are being matched with is below what it was before. Don’t get me wrong, I am not blowing my own trumpet at all, I am average at the best of times, but when you are racing with 10 other people and the next fastest person is 12 seconds a lap slower it gets a little tedious and I am sure it is not fun for the other guys to see one or two players always winning. Neither am I mocking the other racers as they seem to be having their own race quite happily. But I just wondered is it the system? Or have the faster guys stopped playing the hoppers?
Huh, I haven’t noticed that. Maybe it’s time to spend more time in the Class Races. I’m a slow driver, typically top 20K, do a decent job of avoiding other drivers but relatively few clean laps (not corner cutting for speed, so much as missing the line or getting bumped into grass). While the racing got much cleaner, I went from medaling 5-10% of the time to medaling 2-3%. While it’s much less maddening than being knocked off the track (and out of contention for the one bronze us back-of-the-pack guys are vying for), it is more fun to feel like every evening I’ll have a shot at picking up at least one medal; it kind of went from 1-2 a night to 1-2 a week. The races I’m in have gotten cleaner but the medal-contention pack has gotten further out of reach.
My competition bonus is usually in the 3-5% range.
I too have noticed a difference in the lobbies lately either i end up in lobbies with 2,3 guys tops or with guys who are of a different skill set.
Really struggle to find some competative C class lobbies of late where as before we used to find some really good ones.
Maybe its time to try a different Class.
Ran a test. After the updated patch that sorted out matchmaking I was getting Multiplayer difficulty bonus of 30-40% on average. Last 3 races run were 12, 8 and 15%.