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Can a player get to the top of the league by beating lots of bad players?

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Can a player get to the top of the league by beating lots of bad players?

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The ranking system scales the amount of points a player will get based on how close the match is. Beating better players gets lots of points, while beating worse players gets little to no points. The graph below shows roughly what the change in points will be for a player based on the difference between the winner and loser points. For example, if the winner of the game has 10 points and the loser has only 4, the difference would be 6, so the resulting change in points would be around 0. If the situation is switched around (winner:4, loser:10) then the difference would be -6 and the change in points would be around 7. Note that these numbers are just for example purposes, the input and outputs of the function are slightly more complicated. A player can only get so far by playing bad players. Eventually they will reach a point where they won’t get any higher, and they risk huge losses of points should they ever lose to a low ranked player as shown above.