Ranked system is broken

MOBILE ARMOR·Nov 17, 2016·2 votes·822 views

I am silver 2 and all 10 of my flex games were against high gold and low plat players. I go 6 and 4 and get placed in bronze. How does that even make sense?

4 Comments

khorneyNov 17, 20161 votes

stay boosted

Mr CleansNov 17, 20161 votes

Flex queue was reset for everyone was it not? For example when in normal games you have your previous year's boarder now but in the flex queue promotional games no boarder. It seems that they are being very liberal with combining people together and not looking at the Dynamic queue rank from last season. I was silver 5, went 7-3 and placed in bronze 1.

WonderlandsNov 17, 20161 votes

Everyone drops a tier from where they left off? You were silver, now you're bronze.

Hits Like A GirlDec 16, 20161 votes

Riot should just come out and admit that their rating system has huge flaws. Hiding behind fancy jargon like: Dunning–Kruger and Negative Bias, just makes the company look defensive and uninformed. The fact is, their system works great if a player is ranked simi-accurately from the start and then that player logs many, many games. But once a player is mis-ranked, the system tends to keep that player mis-ranked -- it takes hundreds of games to overcome each compounding mistake the ranking system imposes on mis-ranked players. Riot hides behind the motto, “We get 99% of it right”. That leaves tens of thousands of mis-ranked players wasting hundreds of hours to overcome a flawed ranking system, and Riot’s response is, “We have you place accurately. You’re bad, but you’re too stupid to understand -- Dunning–Kruger”. What Riot should be saying is, “We’re sorry. We know our ranking system tends to reinforce its own errors. We are working on it.”