Does the Lobby attempt to balance teams at all?

Does the lobby attempt to balance the teams by rank or is it random? I realise some people will be in parties and that rank isn't a sign of skill, but it's a good indicator that someone at least knows what they're doing. Seems like an obvious way to make for more balanced matches. Good balanced matches are great fun but very rare. 90% of the time your team is either getting steamrollered or totally dominating, neither of which are as fun as a good, evenly matched, close game.

Plus it would be great if, when a match is starting 5 vs 6 and some idiot leaves with seconds to go, the game rebalanced to 5 vs 5 instead of leaving it at 4 vs 6.

It would also be nice if it would choose different teams each time, instead of giving you the same uneven match over and over

Being that the levels are just determined by money made, with doesn't show skill, just how willing you are to grind through again and again. So how would it really balance a team?

Yes, levels does not determine skill.

But when the game puts a 99, 90, 80, 64, 20 and 19 vs 23, 19, 8, 6, 1 and 0....one can predict which team gets steamrolled, and 99% of the time that guess is correct.
And the next match, the exact same teams will be made (if no one leaves).
If i (and anyone else) can see with the blink of an eye the teams aren't balanced, why can't the game?

So whatever crap balancer is used now, i would rather have something simple as putting the players by order of level and balance the teams that way. It will be an improvement to the current system.

Even better would be to have a decent balancer that takes more aspects into account (k/d ratio, win-ratio, average ranking per match, %MVP, ...)

The level 80's and 90's are probably on a team.

well, even if they are, why does the balancer put me (99) on their team, i was solo, and all the beginners in the other team.

It has a system, but its not balanced. Level 99 people are always in one team, same thing with lvl 0.
Sometimes one team has 4 99 but the opponent team has no level 99. Ya thats just "experience" and no trueskill..but if there are 4 level 99 on one team and the other team has people with level 40..than its clear who's gonna win. You can be the best in the world, you cant win if your 5 partners do.."useless things"

Which is why I think they should make a new playlist. Either for Teams and/or Solos.

Well the one problem is I don't think there are enough players to do that effectively.

I was on a server with four 99s the other day, who I think were in a party, and it teamed me (97 at the time) with them against a bunch of rank 0-30s. The results were predictable and there was much ragequit.

(this was pre-patch in case the patch addressed any of these issues - don't remember reading about such fixes though)

This has not been fixed. It happened to me last night.

Even worse, there were 8 players of which 4 99's. I was one of those 99's and i was playing splitscreen with my friend. The 99's all got paired up, and the others, amongst which my splitscreen friend, got in the other team.

The matches there after all got the 99's together too, this time with my friend in our team.

Something like the lone wolf playlist in halo would be awesome