Talk:Elo rating system/@comment-71.227.11.17-20110505200658/@comment-99.147.168.162-20110712042423

No, the reason it doesn't exist is because of balance. Theoretically, 4 players on your team should leave/feed/just plain suck as often as 4 players on your team will. That leaves you vs one other person on their team. If you leave/feed/suck less than that one person on the enemy team, then you should, in theory, be just fine at getting out of the so-called "Elo Hell."

It's not about not having afkers and such, it's about balance and your skill level. If you have low skill, you'll be the weak link on your team and will often be worse than the enemy's 5th player, and vice versa for good players.

Granted, this is a team game, so there are far more complicated advanced mechanics than I could try to account for. But that doesn't affect the fact that a good player at a regular elo will play better than a bad player at a regular elo and the good player will be the winning factor in close battles whereas the bad player will cause his team to lose the close battles.