Talk:Elo rating system/@comment-87.120.65.203-20120329203233/@comment-98.245.142.56-20120331190201

No the problem you're seeing is most likely your placement matches. When you start playing ranked in the very beginning, you gain/lose around 50 elo per game for your first 10 games, these are considered placement matches. After that each game is subsequently worth less until they get to about 12-13 elo each (assuming you're not duo queueing)

The player you're talking about 1300+ elo probably did much better in his placement matches. screwing up your placement can kind of put you in a hole (happened to a friend of mine and we've got same w/l but he's a whole 200 elo below me) but it's not too bad to recover from if you continue a high w/l ratio.