Agreed. Lebron James is arguably one of the best basketball players ever in history and has some of the best stats to show it. Yet his team is currently 3-10. Blizzard’s formula would rank him as a bronze 5, because his win rate is awful. Sound stupid? Well that’s exactly how Blizzard assigns rank.
In a team sport, no individual is better than the sum of the whole team. That’s why EVERY PROFESSIONAL TEAM in existence looks at detailed player specific performance statistics to rate and evaluate players. They couldn’t care less about win %. It’s literally the plot of Moneyball.
But because only win % matters, players do what Lebron did. They stack the deck. They make premade teams of really good people, and they stomp through lobbies to jump rank.
I think there are a lot of “Lebron’s” stuck in random rank hell because of this broken ranking system.