haha, we had someone accuse one of the devs of that on the discord last night. Their response was:
I wish our data was sophisticated enough to do that
It's very simple, it just is based on medals, as medals are effectively a corollary for skill and power, when you're in queue if you don't find a match, it begins to expand the range of acceptable medal matches.
You gain more medals for fighting higher medal opponents, and less for lower medal opponents
WIthin a range of 10-25, for +/- 200 medal deltas off of equal to you
so beat a player +200 medals above you, and you get 25 medals
There is medal loss attenuation on through gold, to account for new players learning the game
So if you lose in like bronze, and the game says well you should normally lose say, -15, it'll reduce that down to maybe, -5
To prevent players from immediately plateauing early, while they're figuring out the units
