Riot have totally lost it. The placement is not soft reset. It is totally inbecile reset. Soft like the rotten mucus on head of Riot. If previosu rankgin has any value at all, you COULD NOT drop from plat 5 to bronze, but our enemy did. And for some reason EUNE.op.GG does not give current rankings, thus the ranking is not given to third party api.
Brutalitops012 votesThe Ranked Flex queue is a separate queue from the old system that isn't based on the old system's rating in the slightest. Solo Queue, which will be coming sometime fairly soon, will be. For now, pretend it's preseason 2-3, when hard resets for everyone to 1200 ELO (silver 5) happened every year. The 0 ELO bronze player could literally get matched with the highest ELO player in the game when the reset happened. In the Ranked Flex, you are no longer whatever rank you had in Dynamic Queue beforehand - that will transfer to solo queue. You are now Silver 5, 1200 MMR, and when Riot puts solo queue on in a few days, you can go back to your normal games and they'll go back to their normal games - or you can try to climb Ranked Flex queue and let this all work itself out and try for some juicy flex-unique end of season rewards. Remember that Flex was designed for playing ranked with friends, like Dynamic Queue, but as Solo Queue is the system that's going to be taken more seriously, they will soft reset that (your MMR will be 1200+previous season's/2 and people you play with/against will be around where you ended last year) and, as this is a new system, couldn't transfer the old rankings over.
ProfDrDeath1 votesEven S2 and S3 did not have a hard reset, and I don't think the formulae you mention are correct - but, in essence, this is the reason why Flex Queue rating can appear to be so low.
Kartagia1 votesThis is good description. Good MMR systems takes this into account and update "not fixed" MMR accordingly. Very good example how to do this is seen in Kiseido Go Server. Your ranking becomes unstable, and 10 to 20 matches are used to determine how your losses and wins affect ranking of your opponents.
Kartagia1 votesThus goal for riot reset is to maximise fun of trollers and maximize frustration of vcitims. Bullying is supported by Riot, but hey, you should not say it as you do not have "proof" and it si rude to state unfavorable facts.