My Apex lobbies .... wonderful Respawn

I've theorized before, and will again now, that in pubs the game isn't using a skill-based mmr. It's using a "willingness to tolerate abuse" mmr. In other words, the more you play out these insane matches without exiting the pregame lobby looking for better balance, or actively quitting matches when you run into things that outrage you... then the more the game will test your outrage reflex.

Me personally... if I ever saw a distribution curve like ANY of the ones posted by EspadakillarTTV​ then I would quit back to the lobby in the blink of an eye. In fact, if you saw the curves I get, curves which almost always get me to re-queue, then you would laugh out loud because they're no where near as bad as the screen shots above. My typical curve has a grey area that spans from the beginning of the rise on the left all the way to the point where it starts to flatten out on the right - genuine single-bucket matchmaking, or so close as makes no difference - and my red line is always dead center at the peak of the curve. To me that's an insta-quit. I can't imagine getting a match that was exclusively predators. Did I say, "predators?" I meant to say, "cheaters."

At any rate, even if my theory is right then it's probably too late for players on old accounts with a well-established pattern of playing any match they're given no matter how outrageous the curve. Maybe time for a secondary?