Talk:Elo rating system/@comment-93.138.19.86-20111228181831

Elo hell is in 99.9% just an excuse for people to rid themselves of responsibility for outcome of the game. You cannot pick 1-2 out of 100 examples where you played extremely well, but still lost because your team sucked.

You are probably disregarding those matches where you played against player who played extremely well, but still lost due to his team being really bad. So in the end, it evens out. In some extreme cases probably there is significant discrepancy in elo rating and skill, but this is probably extremely rare, and also even more rare for players who played >100 ranked games.