The official Matchmaking blog post

@hayhor 

Yes I know that sometimes gold ranked players would have to deal with the occasional diamond or master player, things happen and it was an occasional occurrence.

Right now the problem is not that it is occasional but rather that it is persistent and often.

Yes the new MM does touch on both PUBS and RANKED it still is stated in ranked play that Plat and above can only team up with and ply vs players at most one rank below their rank.

With that in mind the skill level is out the window per say because the rank should be the overriding factor where players ply vs similarly ranked players, predator players is not in any shape way or form similar in rank or skill to a bronze player unless that bronze player was a Predator ranked player in the past.

I have never had the time to grind past gold, I think if I did I could make plat but would be hard stuck there, I neither have the skills or the time to be better than that and should never ever see a Pred ranked player in my lobby nor should any one in the same situation as me. Especially since EA/Respawn states this as part of what ranked play is.

A team of D2's will invariably roll a bronze, silver and possibly even a gold lobby. Look at what Timmy did to bronze silver and gold lobbies when he solo'd Bronze to Pred. Its not fun or fair for lower skilled and or ranked players to get rolled like that, and prob is not so fun for the skilled player as well.

I think that for at least Rank, a player should never have rank decay that is more than 1 rank below their max achieved rank ever. Preds/Master Rank should never decay lower than D4, D1 never below Plat 4 etc.