This is the person at the top of K1 with a 5m GP roster:
Now obviously that person shouldn't be there, but the point is, the higher you climb the harder your SR will be hit by the squish. The way the system currently works, an increasingly severe squish is necessary the higher you go to keep the people at the top from getting so far ahead that no one can ever hope to overtake them. If the squish didn't happen, the folks at the top could never be knocked down.
As an aside, I'm not sure why they're unable to manually adjust these peoples skill ratings to reset them to a reasonable rank. This must be really frustrating for the folks at the top.
Think of it as a ladder, though. The Squish attempts to keep the rungs of the ladder close enough so that climbing (and falling) is possible. Without it, gaps between rungs could get out-of-hand.
Skill Rating doesn't matter. It's where you are on the ladder. [/beatbox]
