Why I am being put in with Predators in one lobby?

Something they should do instead of banning players for 10 or so minutes from all modes, is put them in a slower que load time. The more they leave, the longer it gets. At some point, they can no longer play the game. It sounds rude and harsh, but they're ruining the game for everyone else because they love to drop hot, die, leave, repeat.

People who leave are forced into teams with other leavers, so everyone else doesn't have to deal with them.

Respawn is advertising this * as "SKILL BASED MATCH MAKING".

If it was not advertised as such, I wouldn't complain. 

Is this so hard to understand?

@PsyhiX69I’m going to tell you what I tell everyone who wants to limit how often you see this type of player:

PLAY RANKED, EXCLUSIVELY.

Yes, you will have these players in your lobby occasionally, but on the whole, you will be playing people in your skill range the majority of the time.

The SBMM in ranked is NOT perfect, but it is definitely stronger than pubs. Why play a mode that might pit you against stronger players? You should only play the mode that maximizes your chances of winning. Everyone should play their exact equal and everyone should win at the same rates overall, regardless of skill— this is the argument I keep hearing in support of strong SBMM. Just because someone is better than 98% of the community doesn’t mean they should win more; everyone should be equally stressed each match.

I've read many of your posts on mm and you are not wrong.

"Everyone should play their exact equal and everyone should win at the same rates overall.." - I'm not for this idea either, but rather facing people more or less in the same ballpark skill wise. And I'm only saying that as a compromise because we know sbmm isn't going anywhere. As it is now it's far too aggressive for some people, like you, who can only achieve a 2% win rate even though you are a better player than most.

If a player wins 5% of matches, he's losing 95% of them. To me that's a very small reward vs investment. And that number is basically being forced on us, not earned, so why even play? 

Ever wonder why other masters players have higher win rates but not you? That's the real question. I saw a pred today with a kd of 16. Yes 16.00. How is he pulling this off if he should in theory only be playing other preds / masters? Favoritism? 

Don't get me wrong, I think sbmm should die in pubs. If only the top 10% of players pose a threat it makes sense that they would win more and deservingly so. But it also means I would be seeing them much less in theory. The rest is a dice roll. And I'll be ok with that. But right now better players are being forced onto average players most of the time due to the whole playerbase not being accessible to each other. 

Appreciate your response. For the record, I think one of the issues is that I’m just barely good enough to get Masters but definitely not good enough to be successful against the average Masters or Pred players. So realistically, I am “bottom tier Masters”. As such, I’m kind of destined to continually play the kids at the top, where I lose the high majority of the time. That’s actually exactly the way it should be in ranked— but ridiculous in pubs.

I also think it’s worth noting that I’m older and my opinions are biased. My golden years consisted of Halo and Call of Duty online matchmaking. I (no joke) was getting my butt kicked by Snipedown more than 10 years ago in the MLG ranked mode.
(That’s not a joke, I played against Snipe like 3 times and got handled lol).

Both of those game used loose matchmaking in their casual modes. In this setting, player outcomes were directly influenced by the players’ competence. As you increased in skill above the “average player-skill”, public matches became easier. Was this a bad time for under-average players? Kinda, but it was technically fair in that you could directly alter your experience by practicing and improving.

So yeah, part of my gripe is that the industry has changed. It’s not all bad I guess, but I can’t help but feel like player competence is a lot less rewarded these days.