You're not getting it. Again, you're comparing yourself to winners when you should be comparing yourself to people on losing teams. Not on your own team, everyone. The system only rewards one tricks for exactly what I'm referring to. You mitigate the loss of sr when losing as you play a single character you can carry with and do well on even loosing.
In your example, if you are getting steamrolled as a team, it's likely statistically the game wants you to loose that game. If playing zarya, what you would want to compare is all the zaryas playing on the statistically losing teams. You can't compare yourself to winning zaryas on other teams who are statistically supposed to win as they're gaining sr, you aren't, you're mitigating the loss of sr ready for your game when you're supposed to statistically win. In doing so, you slowly level providing you play well when winning. This is again likely, as it's easier to play well on the winning team.
If 50% of people in your bracket are supposed to loose the next game they play, and you take all of those playing zarya in that bracket of 50%, you want to try and be the best of that 50% losing. You aren't playing badly necessarily if you are multiple gold and playing as well as you can when the game is purposely wanting you to lose. This is how people go through the brackets generally. If you're continually winning games and carrying, generally you far exceeded the current rating you're at as you are winning when you're supposed to loose. If you're going nowhere in the bracket, you're correctly placed.
What you really want to avoid is playing badly and losing when you're supposed to win. You take the heaviest drop in sr.
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- if that is indeed how it works then it's not quite as bad as I thought (I still prefer the system above diamond, because of how much difference you can sometimes make to the result with actions that aren't easy to reflect in stats - e.g. repeated team-fight saving Mei walls or optimal zoning behaviour with Winston's bubble)
