Talk:Elo rating system/@comment-198.166.242.248-20120322030650/@comment-76.8.223.201-20120408062144

^^I agree about the psychology. After getting three games with people leaving or trolling or griefing, my patience used to be shot, and I ended up taking out my frustration on my teammates in the fourth and onward games, berating them for things that I did myself. That sort of attitude loses games every time. I changed my attitude and now try to hold in my anger and realize that it's just a game, and the point is to have fun. Sure, winning is fun, but being pissy about losing is worse than just taking the loss silently. In fact, kindly educating bads is somewhat enjoyable, at least more so than berating them.

And I believe in ELO Hell. I was stuck in ELO Hell, and only recently got "out of it." ELO Hell is there. There will always be griefers/trolls/baddies', but getting 10-20 games in a row where half the players are rage quitters, afkers, trolls, or griefers is not coincidence. Also the ELO system is for sure flawed. When I get in a game where everyone on their team has at least 100 wins more than everyone on my team, that's just messed up. Sure the ELO may be relatively similar, but there is a large pool of people in the 11-1400 ELO level, all with differing skill, and to pit two teams together that has a difference in wins of about 1200 or more (it happens often, actually) is horribly flawed.

I guarantee that if Riot put in how many times you've been reported/banned as a separate factor along with your ELO (They won't, but one can wish...), that the number of people complaining about ELO Hell would drop dramatically - not reports/bans reducing your ELO, mind you, but a completely different factoring. A lot of baddies and trolls don't realize they are bad or that they are trolling ("Yi you're dumb, why would you dive like that?" --Right as the jungler is coming up behind them to gank them for overextending), so you'd still get people complaining, but there are a lot of decent players (or players whose skill has improved) that get stuck with these idiots.