- Secondly, in my hypothetical example of the guy who just started playing the game (who lost a lot in the learning process). This guy will now have a bad Elo as result (and also a bad w/l for that matter). However, he learnt a lot from his mistakes and got better(with a very steep quick learning curve), and is now winning games. He will have to win an awful lot to make up for the bad elo(resulting from his earlier losses) in order to climb to the elo up to where he belongs.
So in this case, low level players (like me) will be raped by high level players after each season cleaning. Till good players ranked up. Nice prospects ;-)