Would you rather

Seems like a loaded question. You asked about the first because that is your ideal situation, and asked about the second because that's what you keep getting. Sweat vs Sweat is the obvious answer. Everyone wants to think they play well, like to think their team is trying to give them a chance, and also that they're besting decent opponents rather than sentient practice dummies.

And everyone knows that a bad player can be worse than not having another player at all in many cases. Whether it's because they gave your team away, or tried to halve their jump-masters loot, or fail to respond to any of your attempts to stay coordinated, or simply miss opportunities that would have seemed like freebies to anyone else...

POTENTIALLY though, having bad players on your team can be more interesting. Many of my best memories are of being the teams star member, picking up an overwhelming share of the slack when things repeatedly get tough. That goes for most games really, but especially for BRs.

Expecting 'fair' in a scenario that relies on its randomness would be a fools battle. So I would pick sweat vs sweat first, but I wouldn't say no if I was granted an attempt at carrying against groups of regulars either. I'm only human. I didn't spend most of my life getting good at shooters just to struggle ALL the time. I want to indulge in a gross trashing when I do find one.

No need for me to bring ranks into consideration either. It's 2019. I know by now that someones performance in their last game can tell me a lot more about a players quality than some arbitrary maths. Their is no way to confirm a perfect method where we condense skill down to a single number, least of all in team games. And a system like this where RP can infinitely count upward, is certainly not it. I play almost exclusively solo so the numbers could be thrice as f***y.

Maybe I'm going too far into it. I always found that the fun of would-you-rather was not the final decision, but explaining how you arrived at the decision. Perhaps that's only for lewd questions.