Remove Personal Rating!

This is just going to be a short entry about an idea/suggestion that just popped in to my head. No irony, no jokes, no sarcasm.

This should have been suggested before, but as far as I can recall, it hasn't.

Remove the personal rating, and let personal MMR take it's place.

Personal rating was added with the rating-requirement to gear in order to stop people from entering a team just to buy the gear.

It was also a good addition to stop team-jumping in times where team-jumping was bad since scrubs had to play well-geared players creating new teams.

The new MMR-system has effectively killed that possibility (Facing scrubs if you're pro), and thus, personal rating only continue to exist in order to prevent people joining teams to buy their gear.

I don't think Blizzard in general has anything against team-jumpers, and the 180 games you have to play to catch up to a 2k+ team-rating really sucks if you plan to team-jump. Having several partners in your team also sucks these days since his personal rating, which needs to remain within 150 points for him to get points from the team rating, is hard to keep if you have a busy week and the team is rising.

So how to solve this issue to once again allow team-jumping?

Remove the PR and replace it with a personal MMR. Your personal MMR is already there and it is in the system, although hidden.

If you have a personal MMR of 2000, there is no reason not to let you buy the 1850-weaps just because you enjoy playing with a lot of different friends.

So basicly, if you would form a new team, it would consist of: 2 players with an arena-team of  0 rating. In there, 1 players with, ex: 1900 MMR-rating, and one with 1500 MMR-rating.

Now this 1900 MMR-player would still not be able to buy his weapon since the team-rating is too low, but all he would need to do is to raise the team-rating. Once that is up, the other player should have MMR of 1850 aswell.

Lets say this 1900 MMR-player gets enough points to buy his weapon for 1850 rating. Yes, now he can just teamjump to a team with 2k rating and buy it. Does anyone think he shouldn't be able to? He has the MMR, so obviously he has been in a team with his MMR before. No reason he shouldn't be able to get his weapon.

Now, this is also pretty good when wanting to play with another player who already has a 2k rated team.

So lets say this 2k rated team-player has 2k MMR, and you join in with 1900 MMR. As you continue, your MMR-rating would close up to the teams arena rating (or MMR-rating), just as your teams arena-rating catches up to your teams MMR.

The only difference from the current system would be that, basically, you keep your PR over teams, just as you keep your MMR.

There is no reason to complicate it with both MMR, TR and PR.
Just replace your TR with your hidden MMR. 

This would also be a good way to keep 2v2 alive. Now you would be able to try a lot of different players out for 3v3 or 5v5 or just play for fun, while still not having to sacrifice TR with your favourite partner. (And you could also just play 2v2 for points and fun like most do, and thus get more fun out of it since variety is fun).

This would also promote new setups (Playing for fun with friends) since you won't have to stick to that fotm-setup just because your PR is in there.

And please don't reply with "Who cares, I have 3k in my 5v5, I can just teamjump 2v2/3v3 anyways!".
1. Noone cares.
2. This is kinda catering to the scrubs. If the lower rated players get viable systems to promote the way they want to play the game, there is more room to improve the gameplay of high rated players.

Ideas?
Comments?
I really can't come up with any flaws, but I havn't really thought it through too much...
Oh, and just to bring some attention to the idea: +1 if you like it.