Is it just me or has the matchmaking been really bad this season. To be fair I am not a high rank (plat) but I feel like my games haven’t been plat level. I also don’t want to make it sound like I am never the problem, I have my fair share of bad performances Lol, I am more so talking about the sheer range of players I get and the amount of purely one sided games (ex: my team and I can’t even make it through spawn). I am also not a leaver nor do I talk in game chat. I also don’t know if it matters or makes a difference but I am also on console. So I have no clue as to why the games have been so unbalanced. It has been constant games where I have brand new players or very low rank players on my team and the enemy is way above my rank. These kind of unbalanced games have been happening regardless of the modes I have played. This has been more of a recent development. I would say starting this season, maybe even the mid season patch is when I started to notice a major difference in the quality of the matchmaking. I was just curious if it was just me or if other people have had the same experience.
It’s atrocious, not just you.
I keep getting outliers on my team, that are not on the opposing team for a balanced match. By outlier I am not talking about someone just playing badly/having a bad round…I am talking about what looks like a bot, literally or it’s their first fps game that they just installed.
I think I have a 10% win rate on stadium yesterday and losses were all stomps because of such players. Everyone else on the the lobby was doing fine, but there is always one player that has such bad stats, it skews the match towards a stomp.
Putting my conspiracy hat on, I honestly think Blizzard is putting bots in competitve out of desperation because of the unhealthy queue times. I can’t explain it, because it is apparent such players should not be in certain lobbies but the matchmaking just throwing them in?
Regardless, it is definitely much worse than last season, so somethnig has changed and it isn’t me because I know I am playing relatively consistently.
Same here in High Masters.
Though I definitely am the dead weight sometimes, I at least try to win. Not like a tank I once had yesterday who was charging into the enemy team alone.
The last time I saw that behaviour was in Gold.
Intentional rank inflation started in the last soft reset S15, and the inflation is even stronger in this season S18.
The inflation is achieved in the way that the new accounts receive way too high sr. Gold people often get to diamond/master, and when they dilute the avg. skill of the tier, then the old accounts could climb as well.
So, when there are new accounts in the lobby, their performance will be like people many tiers lower.
Aaron sacrifices the match quality to comfort people boosting rank.
Ive only seen really bad matchmaking in Stadium with Stomps and repeated losing streaks. The Matchmaking in 6v6 OQ QP, my go-to mode, feels pretty balanced to me 
Not comp, but in qp ive seen some suspicious things this season. Players walking like theyre on an artificial pathing, playing like absolute dogwater for a period of time and then in the next round, or overtime their skill suddenly jumps a few ranks and they seemingly have aimbot.
Sorta stuff you see in MR. It hasnt been every other game like MR but ive noticed it about 5 times.
Theres also the backfills. The player who is performing absolutely abysmally causing a one sided match leaves, and is replaced by a hard carry to turn the game around for a win for that team. Like… every single backfill is like that this season.
i can tell you, MM is worse than its ever been for me. Trying to finish the challenges in arcade is just miserable. Out of the 30-40 games so far, Ive won 2 or 3. Absolute utter garbage whats happening there. QP is not much better.
I noticed multiple soldiers that played like they were drunk. Things like “tracking” with a delay of one second and only hitting on accident. The ranks were plat and diamond.
I also notice crazy fluctuations of enemy skills from match to match.
I have also noticed this. I didn’t want to jump to conclusions but I definitely had the suspicion that there are bots being put in rounds too.
Yeah, this season especially. No idea why. But, it just feels way worse and it was already bad before. I feel there are way more noobs all of a sudden and people being put way too high in ranked.
My experience:
Stadium
If there’s no Barrier Tank, DPS cannot do damage as they need that security blanket to do damage. When I am DPS: My fire damage (Ashe Fire build) does more damage than my DPS teammate
When I tank: “Please use Reinhart or Sigma! The other tanks don’t have good Barriers.”
When I Support: DPS gets melted. Blames tank for not having Barrier up. Healers for not pocketing.
Quickplay
If I don’t use Mauga, nothing gets done.
DPS stay at ~1.5k damage and healers tunnel vision on one ally (mainly the mercys)
It’s like 2016-2017 all over again.
I think this might be the first time I’ve legitimately noticed this, but yes, something seems a little weird. And no, it’s not because I’ve been losing more or something. I’ve played 29 matches since the recent patch and my record is 17 wins, 12 losses.
Despite that, like you’re saying, something just seems off, and it’s frustrating me because I can’t quite put my finger on what it is.
I’ve been having a lot more matches where I’m clearly the odd man out, lowest score and/or highest death count, etc. The flip side being, even during matches where I’m excelling and feel like I’m really contributing and carrying the team, we might still lose and I look at the scoreboard and think about the match and am left with nothing but “eh… clearly we were lacking somewhere, but as far as why we fell short, heck if I know” 
(I only play QP and a little bit of arcade, for context)
QP is horrendous, though I only play 6v6.
Same… 6v6 has been really wonky as of late.
Granted, I’ve also not been playing as much, so I’m a bit rusty and that definitely has something to do with it.
I currently got two lose streaks of 4 games broken by one win that was a stomp from our side. Its not fun, its a waste of everyones time and there are so many people toggling hacks in QP its insane.
Weekend Overwatch usually has wonky matchmaking.
But, I have noticed that my matches have been exceptionally lobsided. I haven’t had a single game that was close or felt fair. It was either we stomped the enemy team by a huge margin, or they stomped us by a huge margin.
Had a Gold level tank on my team. They had a Masters tank on theirs.
It is…odd.
Lack of DPS players especially good ones, According to my GF ‘‘she mainly plays support’’
and noticed a clear decline in Good DPS players and an increase in Bad DPS with huge Ego’s lmao, She hovers around mid to high diamond.
She showed me stat screen Both dps were 4/15 and 12/13 Widow/Sojourn lol…
in comparison Gf was 26/4 as Kiriko lmao. What is happening
Just had my 3rd game of the night where 1 team go 2 or less elims in total. Last game it was my team but both other games was the other team. Complete stomps.
I also got backfilled into a game where my team had 1 kill with about 40s left and I managed to get 3 kills for total 4 kills in total for team.
I think the fact there are more backfills this season says it all. Never been a season with so many backfills. And they’re backfills into terrible games and sometimes games where 2-3 people have left and it’s basically a new game as others leave.
Just remembered I also got 1 game where I backfilled as tank and they told me I was the 4th tank. They were just joining and leaving. It was against Mauga so not that surprising!!
Long and short yeah they threw the MM out the window. after my 5th forced stomp today i just hit alt+F4. this game is just hot trash these days.
I’ve experienced this too no matter the mode. In QP or comp I will always have someone severely underperforming and unfortunately that player is almost always on my team. I’ll admit it myself, sometimes /I/ am that player. I think it’s just prioritising low queue times over enjoyable/balanced games right now and it sucks. Feels like we’re back in the launch period of the game in 2022 where it was stomp or be stomped endlessly.