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> At any given time, most accounts are not playing, so the distribution shows a bias towards values just over a 100 Elo threshold

FYI, that graph only includes players who were active (played a game) this week.

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Yes, but that doesn't change the fact that out of all the accounts included, most of them won't be actively playing games right now.

In fact none of them will be, because it's computed by analyzing the rolling last 7 days, and each accounts "ranking" is whatever their ranking was at the end of that period (i.e. "now," more or less).

Basically I'm not sure why you're saying that leads to a bias toward "slightly above 100."

Ohh... unless you meant slightly above a multiple of 100. I see now. Because people stop playing when they hit a milestone, right.

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