EASHL 6vs6: Atrocious Matchmaking

It doesn't feel wrong. It is wrong. A full disclosure of information should be made available to anyone that's paid for this game. Nothing hidden, no surprises, zero safe space, and an absolute refraining from passiveness. 

As a random and casual player, I should be paired with and against similar ranks and RP. That should be the same course for anyone else playing this game, online, casual or not. Of course, I can understand there being a slight percentage discrepancy for the RP, and I also agree with your point about a need to take into account a team's collective RP and calculating it accordingly. I've also thought about this, over the last several days, after viewing another one of my PS5 Pro screenshots of a much higher collective ranks and RPs team destroying the team that I was on, 8-1 (I scored the lone goal, as a defenceman).

Where I'm going with this is, getting matchmade against people that have been playing together for years, and being paired with random players that aren't quite as structured, isn't at all fun for the latter. And just to add to that point, random players shouldn't be punished for it. And as I'm a random player, I also play this game casually. That doesn't mean that my skill level is lacklustre, but the losses, lack of coordination, etc., are team reflective, due to random players being put together against established teams. And unfortunately, this is becoming more prevalent for each iteration of this series: Randoms vs Randoms, and Teams vs Teams is an abstract concept. 

Bottom line, if this series is being held together by forced full offence, severely limited defence, hole-o-rama goalies, and being on an established team to enjoy the online portion, then this series will not last much longer. And as I've mentioned in my original post, my personal phasing out process of this game is long overdue.