Talk:Elo rating system/@comment-58.136.222.13-20120716114911/@comment-4834593-20120720145634

^It tries to put equal players against each other, but guess what? There's a limited number of players trying to get a game. So you can, as 1100 ELO, get against 1500 ELO. And if you then win, you get a lot more ELO than you, as 1100 ELO, gain against a 900 ELO team when you win. But I guess they'll also mix it, so that not one team will fully be 1500 and the other fully 1100.