Lets Talk About 'Skill-Based Matchmaking'?

Oh yeah, sure thing. This can be hard to understand, but I'll do my best to explain. I'll write your questions in a bullet and respond. If my responses are not clear enough I'll try to elaborate.

• Q: How do you know / how can you evaluate if enemy teams are premade or not? A: Your first two questions are answered here. I have played enough FPS games, Apex included, to be able to generally discern whether the teams I am fighting are communicating and responding within what I expect would be normal for people using mics versus without mics based on their movements. Even if they do all have in-game mics, most teams that are pre-made do have a flow to them. This way of figuring out if teams are pre-made is not without its faults, but I can't exactly poll every team in a lobby, can I? So I rounded down instead. Put simply, at my level of game sense, I can pretty reasonable discern whether most teams I fight are pre-made based on how they play together. Something like 50-70% of fights are against pre-made teams, so I rounded down to at least half. Again, it's not perfect, but I'd say I have quite a better shot at estimating if I am fighting a pre-made than most anyone who has been playing FPS games for a few years. I also have a healthy sample size from this season, don't avoid fights or hide to win, and am again, an Apex Predator. That meaning I do fight pre-made good teams quite often in ranked especially.

I have a little trouble understanding everything you are saying, but I'll hit on a particular note in what you said - "Don't you think with this fast reacting SBMM you get more suitable matches every time you play? At ranked mode you are trapped at the high rank if you have a bad day."

You kind of explained what I am dissatisfied with the current SBMM in your response of "At ranked mode you are trapped at the high rank if you have a bad day.". I explain in other responses that the unranked matches I play are little different that bare minimum platinum matches. Meaning they tend to feel higher ranked than if I were playing in platinum games. It feels like the standard I and others will be held to as they get better will only result in people feeling punished for performing well. This is demonstrated in the response FallenAngel777 gave regarding his experience with SBMM recently. Also, I'm not sure how quick or adaptive I'd say this SBMM system is. I do not know enough about it to tell you how quick it changes people's ranks.