@Riot: 5v5 Matchmaking and Divisions
I know I won't get a comprehensive answer on this because I know Riot wants to keep all of their matchmaking information private, which I understand, but I do have a question.
My ranked team has recently been going up against teams that make very little sense to us.
Information:
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My team is currently Bronze 2. It is made up of a Bronze 5, Silver 5, Silver 5, Gold 4, and Gold 5.
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The two most recent teams we played were Bronze 2 and Bronze 1.
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The Bronze 2 team was made up of Silver 5, Gold 4, Plat 3, Silver 5, and Silver 1.
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The Bronze 1 team was made up of a Silver 2, Plat 4, Silver 3, Silver 5, and Plat 3.
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Using various sites like LolNexus and others, all of their MMRs were considerably higher than ours from both an overall Team MMR perspective AND individual MMRS.
Disclaimer: I know the MMRs listed on these sites are not entirely accurate.
Looking at this info, I'm confused as to how we are getting paired against these teams. Yes, I understand that, division-wise, we are similar. That makes sense.
But when you compare everything else, we are definitely outmatched as far as MMRs and individual divisions are concerned. In both games our highest division player was not equal to theirs, and our lowest was far below theirs.
If you tried to "average" our divisions, I doubt they would be close.
In short, how does this keep happening? Why are Silver and recently Gold players getting paired with Plats? It just doesn't add up to me.
