I think ranked duels needs a rework. First of all, i was placed Silver 5, way lower than i belong. That's okay, I can just grind up it happens. However, if you close the application or turn your console off from the xp screen, you get a DESERTER PENALTY and get 50-60 points removed. After that happening three times I figured the issue out. But the amount of points you get are dog ****. I won 15 games in a row mostly 3-0's but a handful, and tell me why i went from 70 points to 80 points. That is ridiculous and an absolute waste of time. I have been playing casually on and off since the full games beta, and I just started playing ranked It says Beta, but I know it was released years ago. Please fix because something like this should not still be an issue.
Ranked Duel BETA is very broken at the moment, yes. Win a game +1%, lose a game -12%.
Keep in mind that the player pool for ranked duel is minuscule as there is no incentive to play it. So the rank is not a great representation of skill across the whole community, but only over those who actually partake in Ranked Duel. The "skill normal distribution" is probably not the same if you compare Ranked Duel to the whole community, and the mode of the curve is most likely diverging to the right if you measure skill on the X-axis.