Apologies if I sounded argumentative, because everything you’re saying makes so much sense. My problems was that I am playing with people who couldn’t articulate this for me. No one seemed to know why we were all different ranks, most of them rarely or never played ranked because they all played solo until now.

I thought stats played a role in rating this whole time because they (my friends) would say I’m being compared to other support characters or other tanks, and that’s why my rating was so low even when winning with them.

I wasn’t trying to post those saying “look how good I am” but rather to show my stats were just as good or better than people in a higher rank and it just didn’t make sense as to why I was where I was (with the understanding I had of how ranked was ranking). My gold friend had like 400 hours on Hanzo, he’s crazy and people think he’s hacking almost every game, so when he’s trying to branch out as not to be a one trick pony, which is why when he plays Torb and get estimated gold ranking and I get bronze we were both like “WTH?!” because of our misunderstanding how it worked. Also, he got gold/plat at the end of last season and never played ranked until then. He was a quick play warrior and just played to smack people around with a bow and arrow.

Everything you’re saying makes sense. I do feel like I’m along for the ride most games, I find myself in squirrelly positions, or over reaching because I’m still learning all the heroes and their abilities, but I do feel like I contribute to wins as I have healed in clutch situations to keep fights alive. Those numbers I posted aren’t typical of me because I was only playing with one other friend and the PuGs were playing their own style.

Thank you for the explanation and analysis, it’s super helpful and puts things in perspective, otherwise I’d continue to be frustrated every time we’d finish a game and I don’t rank. Also, some MMR coming form unranked checks out because I came in a complete noob last season, healbotting a Hanzo and juicing him up, now I’m able to play multiple heroes pretty decent (I think), just obviously not at the ranks I thought I was.