Talk:Elo rating system/@comment-77.54.95.168-20120120133219/@comment-50.131.156.217-20120123105049

Elo is a relative ranking system - everyone starts at the average score (which is held to approximately 1200) and goes up or down depending on their performance relative to the other players in the game. The fewer games a person has played, the larger the jumps in elo are.