Imbalance. Off-game.
One player. Sure.
Two players? Eh, sure enough.
Three players? Meh, still winnable.
The entire game? You’re drunk, go home.
Multiple consecutive landslide victories?
Denial is the first stage of grief.
That one bit of logic is preposterous and just as ridiculous.
Yes, human inconsistency is a problem and one would expect any issues to be marginal, brief and trivial. The MMR system is supposed to act as liaison to account for preconceived human error (that’s wrong btw). Yet, where players have experienced multiple landslide victories OR losses, you deny that it’s the system deliberately doing this.
Despite the overwhelming evidence that the system DOES in fact rig games into 50/50 chances of winning. In that case, even if a player is a little off that day - or they’re juiced up on coffee/energy drinks - it won’t affect the outcome because the odds are already stacked against them. Literally the better you are as a player the worse off your odds in general.
This fact compounds exponentially with the fact that teams with players of unequal skills will have VASTLY different views on how to play, making any synergy between them increasingly difficult in proportion to the odds MMR has decided for the match.
Your entire argument in this case boils down to a simple concept. If MMR decides you can carry a match, regardless of how you’re feeling or how unequal the skill levels are on your team you should carry said match.
Of course I’m willing to bet in any such case, more often than not, whenever a team must be carried by one or two strong players the difference can never be made up in time. There are too many factors to consider, and by a stroke of luck will you land on a workable composition.
Deny the system any fault all you like. It doesn’t make its errors magically disappear. Thousands upon thousands of players experience this, with a marginal few that do not understand the system thinking it’s only the players to fault. Both sides are only partially correct.
But what matters is that you cannot blame players for their incompetence while defending this precious MMR system of any fault whatsoever. Even if I climbed to top 500 today, it wouldn’t change my views on the system, because by its very principles it is a rigged system.
And yet, competent teams still know how to adapt and minimize losses. Team stomps are a practical reality, but you’re asking for the inevitable whenever you place people of uneven skill on the same team.