Ranked points
I win 4 ranked matches in a row, lose one due to ritos crap connection keeping someone out, and now I sit at 3 League points??
That seems fair...
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Just ignore what tier you're in, only consider your mmr. Your tier will approach where your mmr says it should be if you just get alternating wins and losses for long enough. So even if you're in bronze 4 but you have the mmr of a bronze 5, try to see through it and track your real progress as though you're in bronze 5 since that's what your mmr is and eventually all that matters. So, in terms of mmr, you can drop well below bronze 5. You could have been in what should be called bronze 7 or something like that and you'll have to climb your way well out of that in order to get out of bronze 5.
Your MMR is lower than where you belong, so that's the process of it catching up. You were likely at the bottom of a tier (b4/b5) with 0 LP and still lost matches but didn't/couldn't drop in ranking. You MMR still drops when you lose, though. So now when you win, your MMR improves but you get only a little LP, and when you lose you lose a lot of LP. The opposite happens when your MMR is above that of your tier.
On the plus side, MMR basically (albeit not fully) resets each season. By winning matches now, you are raising your MMR and it will show for season 5. Also, whatever league you are placed in should be your "real" starting point so you won't be in the same situation (unless you hit 0 LP and lose w/o dropping a tier again).