User blog comment:Texas Snyper/Elo Hell and You: Part 1 - The Impassable Barrier/@comment-93.219.7.206-20120728114307/@comment-145.116.10.115-20120908113440

You have misunderstood what is meant by 50/50 win ratio. What is meant that when you at a given elo have 50/50 win chance you are at your true elo. Here your winratio will approximate 50/50.

Fex. if the one player belongs at 1800, then his win chance will be 50 % here, higher than 50 % below 1800 and lower than 50 % above 1800.

In the above example furthermore one of the players have been in a lot of gamesgame with 9 2000+ elo players and won.

The other have been in a game with 9 600 elo players and lost. Chances are that the guy at 1800 is considerably better than the guy at 600.