it does not seem fair than the entire ranking system is tied to a win/loss ratio. should it not be tied to stats such as kills and overall gameplay achievements. i just feel like good players can be locked in bad divisions simply because of the team they are paired with,
I agree with you, it is unfair to base peoples' rank solely off of wins and losses. However, the alternative would be to score people based off of their performance in-game which could lead to people afk farming their lane or making bad plays that just pad their scores in the hopes of climbing faster even when those plays are detrimental to winning the game.
I want a better system too, but until a strategy is developed to mitigate these problems it would be detrimental to switch to such a scoring system.
+1 have my upvote, because I like your idea and in an ideal world I'd like to see something like it developed.
The system is bad, but not for the reasons you say.
Wins and Losses is an aggregate metric that factors in quite a bit. If the game was better at executing trolls and afkers, I'd be more comfortable with it.
I still think pulling stunts in the Bronze 5 should net you a 10-game Ranked ban, but Riot does't seem to care about us.
There's no realistic way to measure performance and assign and win or loss based on it.
This is how team games function. The team with the highest score at the end wins.
You can crush in basketball, but if the enemy team has more points at the end, your individual performance simply wasn't good enough.
Now, having said that.
I do not like how the system tends to match people based on their MMR. If you have Plat MMR, but you're in low gold because you just finished placements, you shouldn't be going against teams matched to your skill rating. You should be matched against people based on your division. I don't think it's an accurate system where someone has to compete against people at their skill level regardless of their division. If there's a diamond in low gold, give him low golds to play against until he climbs to where he belongs.
the system sucks ass
