Very good suggestion/thoughts.
I, too, got that same impression by the staff about the war history and really do not understand the reason behind them including it as a part of the match-making.
Do you know if they have addressed why they felt it was important to be factored into the process? If they are “looking for historical” overviews, and believe they are important, then why not other historical components? Like the cups & titan points could be factored into it to, too. Along with the top 30 heroes and war history.
It (cups/titan points) could be based on a historical date points of the last 30 days from the point of matching by backdating and then for next war the historical data points are adjusted accordingly. This, at least in theory, should give you a well-rounded overview of the alliance strength and wellness and, hopefully, balance of closer matching for AW.
Unfortunately sometimes we just need to “live in the moment” and vent, which is what a lot of our members are doing right now (it is just hard to keep cheering them on when it is feels so very unfair). We lost the previous war before this one (although I was not around, I trust the word of my members when they conveyed we had been grossly outmatched then, but that this match-up was far worse) – so back to back hits and with the recent changes to other “fixes and glitches” has just created a lot of frustration.
At this point our opponents continues to hit us and it looks like all 28 of their players may use every single one of their flags (even though there is no way for a comeback by us to make it even close on narrowing the gap). Perhaps from their perspective that is how they play, which makes me question how many losses they have experienced if SG deemed them as “the underdog” historically.
Overall, I think that’s a bit classless on their part, if you ask me, but that has nothing to do with the matching questions for SG, just a very different approach on how to win graciously.
I can only hope we hear something soon about the outcome of the newest adjustment in war match-ups.