Its a ranking system for matchmaking not a competition. If you want to compete in Gears. You need to go join a tournament. There only Wins-Losses matter. That is Gears competition. Online Ranked is a matchmaking system to try and maintain a competitive environment, but it doesnt represent Gears Esports.
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You too bud 
You got this twisted. Team based sports have a team ranking and an individual ranking. Just because a team is loosing doesnt make the individual’s rank go down if they are performing
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It doesnt matter what the ranking system is. There will always be someone complaining about it lol. If it matches equal teams against each other (or close to it) then it accomplished its job.
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Every ranking system will have its flaws, I fully accept that.
Wins versus losses though is far too simplistic as it assumes all wins and all losses are equals. Losing to A Diamond tier stack isn’t the same as losing to a bunch of solo queued silvers.
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Like you said it works when you have a fixed season with semi fixed teams. With rosters and trading rules. I wouldnt mind if Gears had a mode where you could set something like this up. Buts its not what Ranked mode is about. Its not about one fixed team against another. Its about where an individual ranks in a pool of people. Assuming they might play on different or no teams depending on the day.
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Would be pretty cool to have some online tournaments for this kind of thing.
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Yeah even if you could set up a season where you had to play x amount of games then afterwards you had playoffs.
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Its not a team game. I believe if the stats were revealed you would find most people are solo queuing. In sports that you are comparing to you always have a full team coordinating. If you had a list with squads only then I could agree with what you are saying. But i bet you would find that someone playing Gears online with a full 5 member squad is actually the minority.
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I understand what you are saying, but if you strictly based the leaderboards on Wins/Losses you would end up with a lot of people towards the top that dont belong there, and a lot of people at the bottom that dont belong there. So if i get 80 kills and i am MVP every match but matchmaking puts me with 4 bronze that get 4 kills a match and i lose. I should remain a bronze?
Then you never get the opportunity to see how you perform on a good team equally as skilled as you.
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Yeah but ping and internet speed dont matter on the Lakers. This is a video game over the internet. Gears has a competitive scene where only wins and losses matter. You can even find leagues throughout the web where people play based on wins and losses. Noone in Gears online is going to say im Diamond 5 look at this bronze lets pick him
Up for our random squad.
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But my one point is you said you didnt like Gears 4 ranking system. Yet that system has in place you have to win to go up. And in Gears 5 you still get more points for a win than a loss.
If you are winning and equal skill in Gears 5 you will still be higher rank than someone losing every match.
what you keep bringing up is a rank for teams that remain the same in almost every game. Something that would work with Esports teams but not the everyday Gears player
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