it is.
we know that as a fact because in season 1 people were requesting their data from blizzard so they could see their current SR.
It’s only 5 games. 2 divisions is completely fine.
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In one of the recent communiques, the Devs stated that they took PBSR out of the equation altogether.
Yes. By the old count, 5 straight wins would net somewhere between 75 and 150 SR increase. Depending on the exact rating, which is now hidden from us, that could amount to zero, one, or two tier bump.
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This ranking system is unique and very accurate in fact. It all depends on your mastery of the hero.
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Well someone just stated a few hours ago in another topic that smurf accounts are not a problem because they will get placed in their deserved (high) rank after 5 games so… Someone’s not telling the truth.
You won 5 games and went up 2 divisions which sums up to be about 200 oldschool SR meaning that you gained about 40SR for each win? How is that weird? That’s like pretty much as normal as it can get
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I think from what they revealed from matchmaking is that the skill ranking/medal is arbitrary personal progression sense for the player. The hidden SR is what counts for matchmaking. Hence the “omg there’s a silver in my diamond”
How is there still confusion that displayed rank matters at all.
I didn’t bother with comp for season 2 for the exact same reason.
Comp has always been broken and they see no need to fix it… You win lots get barely any climb and guess what… you will grind more and then higher ups at Blizztard will go look at how engaging our game is!!! they stay and play so long
This is wrong. They even stated that how you play in a game, has no effect on your rank. So if you go 30 and 1 or 0 and 5 is not important.
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In one of the blog posts about ranked system, devs mentioned that they have removed performance based metrics and the ONLY thing the system considers is if you won the game. Your personal performance has no effect on it whatsoever.
Bro how are you not gm playing Cree sojourn 
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It’s funny i felt the same too! I had 7 wins and 2 losses and i remained the same rank.
Won like 7 times in a row same rank. Stopped playing comp after that time to be QP warrior.
Once you get your initial placements out of the way (ie once you have won your first 15-20 games and are back where your MMR says you should be) your gains are not going to be very large. Just imagine in OW1 if you were 3600 and won 5 games. You would likely be around 3720 or 120 SR higher which is 1.2 tiers so going from Masters 4 to Masters 2 makes sense.
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It’s not weird.
This happens if your MMR is still higher than your SR.
If you have an MMR of 3702 and your SR is 3622 and you win 2 and lose 3 (let’s say it’s about +50, -75), you still get SR.
And I think if your MMR is lower than the enemies MMR, too.
That only applies to new accounts.
…ok, let’s assume it is and Blizz has designed a system to do this (for some reason). How does it factor in which accounts to ‘target’ and what criteria is it looking for exactly…? 
…oh ‘they said’, are we really going the ‘trust Blizz’ path here…? I mean, because if you trust this you also trust anything else they’ve said/will say in the future…?
Who said anything about that?
I’m saying winning is the only performance that matters in a competitive sense.
However, this system taxes your performance via matches rigged by hidden MMR.
You get matches that handicap your ability to convert wins (the only performance that matters), and your ‘ability to perform’ i.e. win at some rank, is never labelled properly. It’s fake, because they don’t use a single unified and publically available payout and reward and ranking metric of SR. They use some hidden bloat called MMR.
…you did when I said the ranking system evaluates things other than winning and you said it didn’t so, in the OP’s situation where they are ‘winning’ but not climbing, what other inference can be made…? 