How can this rank mismatch occur?

[yebellz]

I speculated about this phenomenon in a different thread:

How is the new "overall" rating determined?

Others have stated that the overall rank is just calculated independently based on all ranked games. These above two types of discrepancies can be explained if players have had a general trend of improving or declining (or at least just a general winning or losing streak) over a period of time, while also playing a mix of all three game types. The overall rating will have moved much faster since it has roughly three times as many adjustments as the categorical ratings. In these cases, its jus…