The official Matchmaking blog post

@Axs5626Sxa5001 You speak as a Masters level player & so how can you possibly know or even experience the calibre of lobbies 'average players' like myself experience all too frequently.& so you base your assumption that 'us average players' are some how 'protected' from the best players based on asking players honest enough to admit they are average or aren't as good as they would like to admit.And as a Masters player yourself are you a solo player with randoms or in a pre-made squad because both options are like chalk & cheese & as a solo myself the disadvantages are stacked against you from the start.A fair amount of matches I've played so far this season have ended very early as an unintended consequence of hot-dropping (even on the fringe,outer areas of the map) where say as a team we would land early, than numerous teams would land after & then we'd be pounced on by well-equipped,pre-made squads when we are scratching around & struggling looking for weapons,ammo & loot (rinse & repeat).And if there is any doubt as to finding the level of opposition I have been killed by I always tend to look at their kill stats after & if it's not a smurf player on such a low kill count (or unstated) it's usually by someone with around 10k kills.In one match last night I managed to finish 5th but chose to spectate the team in which they won but their combined total kill count was 123k kills (the highest player was 78k & the lowest was 18.5k) whilst my team had a combined total of 1.9k kills (me on the highest with1.05k kills & the lowest had 210 kills) & can you honestly this is fair MM.