With only 1 lower elo member per each team maximum. The standard deviation among team members is simply too far apart for a good league game to actually happen. You want queue times to be short? Try making league a fun experience so players stop leaving.
Glaricion1 votesJust a note, it is very hard to tell if the system is matching players of the same skill level or not.
Yes, a Gold 2 player and a Silver 3 player will be, on average, of vastly different skill levels.
That being said, people's actual ELO/MMR is not visible to anyone anymore.
Positional ranks also vastly complicate things (Plat in one role and game knowledge, is in high silver due to not knowing the matchups of a new lane)
It is possible for 2 players of two vastly different divisions and tiers to in fact be of the same MMR.
Or Riot could be screwing around w/ matches to get more rage-playing or to keep people from their minimum-satisfactory-rank. Hard to tell, the system is incredibly opaque.
