My Rank Is 900?

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Somehow I have the feeling that the real reason we are not told how the system works and what it looks for is not so that it is not exploited, but to cover up how simple and bad the system is.

This is how the system works:
Game 0 you start at 2350 with 0 MMR confidence. Your SR is not visible until you finish placements. Your SR will move +/- 150-200 with each placement game depending on wins or losses. With each progressing game, your MMR gains more confidence, and the SR will move less and less with each game until it plateaus. This is why it is easier to move rank in the beginning, and harder after some time. Ultimately, how you move rank up is by winning.

For a deeper dive into it, you can read through here:

Initial Competitive Skill Rating, Decrypted

Too Long, Didn’t Read Initial competitive skill rating (SR), for accounts that have never played competitive, is approximately 2350. This leads to new accounts being placed closer to high gold that is correct. There is substantial luck based variation in initial placement. Quick play has no influence on starting SR. Initial placement is not dominated by statistical performance. For the first eighteen games, including placements, SR change, for average players, is approximately des…