Yeah, I suppose that does go both ways.
Lets say you placed high (Diamond), on new account. If you arent really Diamond, and all you do is place (5/10 matches) a season, it will take forever to drop down
Alternatively, if you play OverWatch a lot, but all you do is place in competitive, you might be a better than, overall, than your actually Comp SR, but you haven’t grinded the games to prove that yet.
And, in either system, this is probably where those super numbers (like 40 SR for a win or loss), come in. Because, when you finally do start to actually play competitive, the system will try to adjust you to your true rank as fast as it can. In theory, anyway.
That makes a lot of sense, as well. There has been a lot of people, on here, that talked about how they started to climb after they just relaxed a bit and didn’t get so stressed/tilted, all the time.
Interesting opinion. Even if reality is 50/50, that’s not good. Lol.