Official Season 4 Gear Requirements

[NotSoDarklord]

Image you faced a 2500 "rated" team at 1500 because they cycled in players that rated at 1500. Thus the match is 2500 verse 1500. If the 1500 team wins, you will score 40-100 points and the 2500 team would lose that many. Great for the low end team and horrible for the high end team (losing 100pts in a single match for a high end team would require just crazy amounts of gold or real world money). If you lose to the 2500 team at the 1500 bracket, well you give them 1 point.

Unfortunately (or fortunately if you enjoy queueing from high ratings late at night) the amount of points you can win from a team is capped at 32. At the other end of the spectrum you can have 0 point losses if the difference is great enough.