Once you have established MMR data on someone, they will likely fluctuate in a narrow rank spread. Someone who was GM isn’t going to randomly slide to plat, for example. Every rank reset they have ever performed just ensures poor quality matches for a few weeks then people end up at the same rank they were anyway!
Yes but not for the reasons you posted.
- Rank resets on sr, keeps Mmr. So ALL gems are now plats. A former plat is now silver. So former plats aren’t playing former gms, and all current plats are former gms.
In your example you made it seem former gms are playing current plats. That is not the case.
What makes the real example of sr resets bad…
Well if the former plat, now silver, works they’re way back to plat, and the lazy former gm, now plat decides to play. They tend to have a high elo ego and get frustrated at the new plats vs old plats.
OR their gm skills do kick in (some bought I would presume) and now they’re a legitimate Smurf and boosting everyone on their team and artificially deranking everyone else on the other team.
Soft resets and players lack of playing is bad.
Let’s not forget to add the factor of “carry ability”. Let’s say I’m gm but I can really carry in plat and diamond but can’t in masters. If I decide to play “late” compared to my former gms, now plat. Yea I’ll rank up in plat but might start struggling in diamond and masters and not really getting back to gm.
A true mmr / sr would be better combined with everyone in bronze is ideal. If you can win, you can prove and will get back to your rank with the Mmr and sr aligned. But when you hold one and drop the other weird stuff happens.