User blog comment:Texas Snyper/Elo Hell and You: Part 1 - The Impassable Barrier/@comment-71.177.2.46-20110908022933

this article is absolutely rubbish bullcrap

my main is 1697 with top rating 1748 my smurf account is 1232 with top rating 1388

soon as I hit 30 on my smurf I hit ranked games and won and carried most game to 1388 easily, then I hit a lose streak from MOSTLY leaver/afk'ers, and occasionally that idiot team that decides to pick 4 ad carries, or occasionally that solo top morde that goes 0-9 within 15 mins against an easy lane and with his team helping to gank

soon as I hit that ~1200 mark it was fucking over, there was no coming back, I played over 30 games at ~1200 and just get 50/50 ratio because it's just pure luck at that point, of who gets on my team, who gets on enemy team. I'm talking about like I'm kennen mid vs brand mid, I first blood him, get 4-0 on him within 15 mins, and gank top and bottom, and I'm 6-0, meanwhile our top is 0/7 and our bot fed their bot into legendary streak within 18mins

your problem is you're trying to use mathematics and statistical analysis to try to measure a rating range where you have morons, decents, and pro's all at the same rating range since you start around there, not to mention you're trying to measure a game where a single mistake in a teamfight can turn the entire game around, and idiots will make that single mistake everytime, or sometimes, you just don't fucking know, they're idiots