Can anyone explain this to me.

[Mirch]

rankings is different from player skill

[AdamZ]

Matching workings like this:
- Limit players to two medal ranks below from the highest rank in the group
- Match both groups total rank points. Therefore if you are high gold, and they are say 2 low gold. 1 silver and 1 bronze, you can get situations where you have high bronzes on your team but the points on each side match
- There is allowed a gap in the two sides points, and can't remember if they removed this now, but that gap could/does grow the longer you are in que for.

[Akimitsu]

Gold/Silver/Bronze mean nothing, Plat too, to an extent, with enough matches played -assuming you have half a brain- is feasible for anyone. You can have terrible luck with the matchmaking it's true, but don't think a match between anything that doesn't involve Diamond/Plat players is unbalanced. Some skilled players start the season later than the rest and you'd be glad to have them in your team because they are 2 ranks below you.
That said let's exclude career bad players, who never make it out of given ranks and end up on your team repeatedly, it's another story.

[Jigokunoreizasan]

Gold/Silver/Bronze mean nothing, Plat too, to an extent, with enough matches played -assuming you have half a brain- is feasible for anyone. You can have terrible luck with the matchmaking it's true, but don't think a match between anything that doesn't involve Diamond/Plat players is unbalanced. Some skilled players start the season later than the rest and you'd be glad to have them in your team because they are 2 ranks below you.
That said let's exclude career bad players, who never make it out of given ranks and end up on your team repeatedly, it's another story.

I understand the concepts of alts, but I'm curious as to HOW the game decides WHO gets put on what team. I think there may be some hidden MMR? I'd at least hope so because going off rating alone would be terrible since you barely lose any points for a loss until you reach gold... and even then it's enough to where one win you get what you lost and then some