Skill level gradually getting worse

Ok so I have many things to say. First off, here is my screenshot showing my 3841 damage and 11 kills in an arena match, which I took from my stat screen in the lobby. I couldn't take it right after the game, sadly. Nonetheless, I am happy with this. 

So, Max told me to practice BR with no-fill on. I used this chance to keep track of the players that kill me. This is something I've never done before, because I assumed the matchmaking couldn't be that bad. Boi was I wrong. Remember what I said before? That it feels like I am going against people who play Apex 25/8? Turns out, I am really going against people who play Apex 25/8! 

I tried maybe 8-9 games with no-fill on. It was a disaster. I got only one kill. And this was a Gibraltar who was stuck in the DC limbo. I can tell you right now that in at least 6 of those games, I was killed by people who had either 20 bomb badges, 4K damage badges, or both. Screenshot below, it is just one example. 

Why are these people in the lobby with me? Honestly. I never had a KD above 1, I rarely get 3 kills, let alone 20. And yet I find these kind of players all over. This isn't funny at all. Honestly, SBMM needs to stop being marketed as "skill-based", because it clearly isn't. If it was, I doubt I would see these players this often.  

But you know, there is another thing that struck me. And I cannot wrap my head around it. I am talking about... why am I seeing these players more often than not in enemy squads, and yet, they never seem to be on MY team? Like seriously, the teammates I get are anything but preds/masters with 20 bomb/4K badges. They might have some decent stats, but nothing that can be compared with preds/masters. I seriously cannot recall the last time I had such players in my team. I am not even sure if I had them at all, and that really says something. Is literally every (and I mean, EVERY) pred/master playing 3-stacked or what?

Also, I wanted to show you all this, my season 5 stats compared to overall stats. Notice how my KD is just the same. And yet in that season, I piled up 43 BR wins, which is almost half of my overall wins. I was not even taking the game seriously at the time, because I was just starting out with it, so I fully expected to be not good (especially coming from an offline background).

Also, notice my highest kills (7), and damage (1769) in a BR game... well guess what? I achieved those in season 5 and I was not able to replicate it ever since. 

I don't know what the state of SBMM was at the time, but something tells me it was probably in a better shape than now...

Ok, so, now a more positive note. Once I was done with no-fill, I got back to team play. I played maybe 4-5 games, but I increased my kill count from 781 to 798. Wow, did I really have these amount of kills in just a few games? Madness. And yes, I was on 0.4 AA. Just wow, I hope this is a sign of improvement, and not just SBMM being nice. 

@soccerking122 thanks. Now that I think of it, I do not see too many Ramparts around.

@Cheese9Man bruh, 47% is for Arenas. On BR I am probably sitting at 3%.

@AcidicSoda44031  My bad I didn't notice that was arenas stats! LOL. My current theory about arenas still having a broken MM is the lack of players playing in this mode. Respawn have said that there's a "hidden MMR" for the matchmaking in arena pubs but after multiple posts in the forums I doubt that that's the only metric used for matchmaking.

I love your tenacity and grit in trying to improve in this game. 💪

Sharing my S11 arenas stats just in case. LOL. Respawn just please bring team deathmatch or other modes for arenas!

It’s the second straight day that I freakin suck at apex so bad. Confidence is at an all time low. LMAO!