An odd analysis i've found for silver and bronze
Silver players are ACTUALLY worse players than Bronze players.
I just climbed Bronze 4 with Iron players on my team to Silver (finally). I'm seeing considerable contrast in player habits, skill, mindset/mental and awareness between Bronze and Silver, Silver being overwhelmingly worse. I climbed through ALL of bronze not just Bronze 1 and one promotions set to Silver level.... ALL of Bronze.
I don't know why exactly this is, I've played quite the count of games by now and its a consistent recurring post-game analysis i'm finding for my team and the opposing team.
I CANNOT, talk for other regions, other ranks like gold and above but I am sharing a genuine concern for the state of ranked. I really don't know why it is either.