Talk:Elo rating system/@comment-91.182.32.171-20120225153419

Elo hell does not exist, given a large number of games.

The problem is this large number of games. If you are below your deserved rating, you will win 5/9 games instead of 5/10 games. This is a VERY SLOW way to rise in elo, and along the way there will be random variance in one or the other direction due to new or trolling players on either team. It is not entirely inconceivable that you are very slowly climb up, have bad luck and drop all the way back down. You will be where you deserve to be 2000 games later, but a lot of people don't have the patience.