Sandbaggers who play a lot of games need to resign or play badly half of their games to maintain a low rank, so you still have 50% chance to win against them. Only the influx of new players who register at a wrong rank may affect your rank in the long run. The opposite also happens, people who are 20k strength but register at 6k or higher (airbaggers). If there are more sandbaggers than airbaggers, this creates deflation of the rating system, so you will get demoted, but the same will happen to everyone, and this probably happened:
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