User blog comment:Texas Snyper/Elo Hell and You: Part 1 - The Impassable Barrier/@comment-173.95.158.187-20110829025810

This is literally the best explanation of Elo hell I've seen to date. Sadly you're not taking one factor into account here. I have two accounts. one with 900+ games total, 50/50 streak in normals, and a 600 Elo with a 20/80 streak currently. Now I also have a second account that I made trying to get a better Elo since I now had a /better understanding of the game. At 400 games I have a 1250 elo rating and 50/50 streak for both norms and ranked, thus proving one or both of my Elo scores is wrong.

My problem is while I may be X-500 or x-300 on my first account, I keep going up against two players of the same skill, or having two feeders/afkers to their one, etc etc. Statistically speaking you flip 100 coins you get 50 heads 50 tails. But in practice that isn't how it happens. 100 people flip 100 coins each, one guy might get 50/50, while another get 10/90 and another gets 90/10. While some people are illegitimately bad, some are just unlucky. Some more so then others, maybe getting that 910/90 on teammates, others only a little getting 40/60.

I even want to go so far as to say there is an Elo heaven. The people getting the 90/10 and 60/40 have higher Elo then they should. But of course you would probably never get any better players to admit that.