User blog comment:Busecatu/Why Ranked System is broken./@comment-5791947-20131010141957

I disagree with this though.

To understand the elo system, the first few matches have a very sharp increase/decrease on your score, in which the change decreases as you play more games, eventually approaching a net change of zero (after a million games).

A very rough example, 1st game nets you 200, 2nd game nets you 75% of the 1st, 3rd 75% of the second. If you win all your first three games, you get a rating of 1663 if your initial MMR is 1200, and you'll be 737 if you lose your first three games. It is harder to rise or drop the more games you play.