Talk:Elo rating system/@comment-62.143.66.252-20121024170923/@comment-62.143.66.252-20121025114839

thats wrong. i dont play ranked at all. or better put, used to play it in season 1, got almost to the gold tier then stopped because i started thinking about the system and realized its stupid. and i dont like participating in stupid things. i simply used my brain and took some data from statistics and analyzed it. based on what i understood so far the system works similiar to the elo system used in chess, however according to rioters does have some differences. one major being that it apparantly doesnt take the enemies elo into account (what makes sense since you are matched with people with about the same elo and therefore the number multiplicated with the value k would be stupid) and the second major one (the one where i really think the system is most flawed) is the way the value k is determined. according to a rioter k is determined by taking how many games you won and comparing it with the amount of lost games. which causes one problem. once you have a losing streak, getting out of it is nearly impossible, since the K value is going to be high, however, that also causes you to lose a lot of elo when you lose, which makes you go down in elo which causes the K value to rise again and so on and so on.