Talk:Elo rating system/@comment-74.5.27.85-20120211095026

The odds of remaining at an undeservedly low rating are insignificant given a large enough number of games.

Gambler's fallacy at play here, you could possibly need a very very large pool of samples to "defeat" the randomness of soloque. Very large as in hundreds of games, enjoy the frustration in your long and arduous journey upwards if your placements were unlucky.

That's elo hell.

So many factors affect your game, it is consciously trying to fix your win/loss using incorrect assumptions, producing more incorrect results to use in its next fix.