User blog comment:Leyrann/Elo rating doesn't work & Elo Hell exists/@comment-70.59.25.209-20121111202052

People seem to forget that mathematics cannot and will not be able to accurately describe human behvarioral patterns. It hasn't done so before and it will not do so for quite some time. To think that the Elo system is flawless isn't necessarily wrong, but in-so-doing you must make several foundational assumptions that do not work in real-life. As such, the Elo system (or for that matter) does not work flawlessly, it just works as well as it can given the constraints put on it by humanity.

tl;dr Deal with it.