I’m curious what the point of a ranking system is. I don’t know the last time I had a close, competitive game. I solo queued as a plat 6 and I got two plats and a diamond 1 and the opposing team was a team of 4 with 3 high onyx and 1 champion. Not the first time this happened to me either. I solo queued last week as a plat 4 and got the number 2 and number 14 champion against me. Soooo how exactly am I supposed to level up? Is anyone else experiencing this?
Post links to the game history of specific games in question in this thread along with any questions you have about why such games occurred as they did, and hopefully Josh Menke will get back to you.
What I think it is: recently matchmaking was opened up to allow really high skill players to find matches more easily, as before the tweaks they were having to wait several minutes to find games, or not finding games at all. As far as ranking up goes, losing to a high-skilled team like high onyx or champs won’t cause you to lose as much CSR as if you lost to a team close to your skill level. The loss shouldn’t be too hard to make up progress for the next time you win against a closer-matched team.