Yeah Blizzard finally confirmed what everyone felt, the promotion system is currently bugged. The problem comes in how the system works. You have your rating and your league. Your rating is a number, mine is 1300. Your league is a color, mine is platinum. You are matched against people with the same rating as you (not league). As your rating goes up you face more and more opponents who have played and won/loss a similar number to you.
As you win more you will face better opponents who have as high of a rating as you. When you lose you face weaker opponents. The promotion mechanic comes in after you win quite a bit and consistently lose to people in a different league. So if you beat all platinum players and only lose to diamond players they will promote you to diamond.
So what’s the bug? It comes in when you actually are beating players you shouldn’t be. Theoretically if you lost every match to people in higher leagues you’d actually get promoted FASTER than if you were to beat them. The system doesn’t really have anything in place to deal with this so instead it just keeps putting you against people of an equal rating but never promotes you.
It’s been plaguing me for quite some time. Basically all my ratings are 1200+ and my win/loss record is very good. Yet my friends all get promoted to diamond with worse win/loss records.
Good to hear blizzard is finally fixing this.
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