Starcraft 2 Unranked MMR

I am having some trouble in Starcraft 2 with players who are playing uranked. I queue up a ranked game, get matched to an unranked player that beats me easily. After the game I see that they have a certain MMR (close to mine) for a race when playing unranked, but their ranked MMR with that race is often times several hundred higher.

Me losing MMR based on their unranked MMR seems unfair to me. Could someone please explain why blizzard matches ranked and unranked games?
Why does unranked have a separate MMR?

Thanks in advance for any reply!

P.S. I realize that an odd loss does not matter much, but it still irritates me.

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Playing unranked works similiar to playing ranked but you can’t see your MMR. So if you win while playing unranked, your unranked MMR which is seperated from your ranked MMR goes up.
So if a better player has a much lower unranked MMR simply means that in average he plays worse when he plays unranked. Probably because he has more chill or is trying weird stuff.
Whatever you will often match against much stronger players who just play unranked but they will still be at your level in average when they play unranked.
I think there are just not enough players for making ranked and unranked completely seperated from each other.

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The player base is declining and players complained about experiencing longer search times. Some times ago Blizzard decided to merge ranked and unranked queues but keeping MMR separated. Every one who hits the play button finds a match quickly even after so many years since SC2 was released.

Yeah but Bliizard doesn’t about your problems, Bliizard doesn’t care about Starcraft

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they dont. blizzard doesnt have a brain or heart. ruin their own game by being liberals. who the f puts ranked and unranked together? ladder anxiety? try playing people of higher mmr making new accounts and messing with their unranked mmr. they are done climbing the ladder. time to hit the diamonds. i quit my prior, favorite game

I also have the same problem I am a unraked player and still new to starcraft but I have games with gold to diamond players like wtf I am constantly demolished and I cant learn the game because of this bs

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hit me up if you ever want to practice. Im always down and we can learn and grow together ima gold tier 1

Playing against much higher ranked players gives you more of an opportunity to understand your failings if you’re looking properly.

Every loss is to someone who did something that you didn’t see or they were mechanically better than you.

The scale of the loss is all that changes and it is irrelevant in the long run if your goal is to improve your understanding of the game.

Unranked mixed with ranked by itself isn’t that unfair. What’s messed up is when people depress their mmr by dropping or throwing games. This happens with ranked mmr too, but with the consequences of damaging your placements obviously. I’ve seen it a lot where obvious smurfs drop all of their mirror match up games to keep their mmr articficially depressed. It seems to happen more with unranked accounts probably to prevent you from seeing their previous ladder placements and calling them out on it. Unranked match-making is also not as “tight” as ranked so these players will get matched with people who are much less skilled than them or sometimes are just as skilled but no one much higher since they’re trashing their mmr on purpose.