User blog comment:Commander Marko/Is it possible to avoid a losing streak?/@comment-5763148-20130830142711/@comment-5969046-20130831074802

@TheTobarMethod : there is still an extremely strong relationship between your placement and your skill or whatever you want to call it, on single plays and team behavior understanding. People in high Elo / Divisions will be (with a very few exceptions) better than people in low Elo / Divisions on almost every part of the game (laning, mid game, teamfights, team moves decisions). If you are high Elo tier (real skill but not placement) and play in low Elo tier games, you have higher than 50% chance to win your games. You can call it Elo or division / league, that is the same in the end. This is exactly the same reason and explanation why "Elo Hell" does not exist. Good players end up in high divisions, bad players end up in low divisions and the system really doesnt fail that much. That is right too, Player X (Bronze) could win a very particular setup vs. Player  Y (Diamond) but it is very very unlikely to happen. Stating that an average rate is high does not mean that it is 100% solid and there are no exceptions. Make 500 Diamond players play vs 500 Bronze Players in 100 different games, you might end up with 98 - 2 for Diamond guys.

@Solstius : I get it, the match making becomes 'unpredictable' on Fridays so everything is kindof random and you wont have that much of an impact on the game except if you get fed very early I guess. Well then if you understand you're in one of those games, pick an assassin and go ballz deep mode ? :D