Wow I'm actually surprised that I have gotten a lot of people to come out and agree with my bold statement. For a minute there I thought i was the only one. Mustard man summed it up perfectly.
Weeeee ok here is where I finally tells you what is wrong with the rating system.
I recently gave a member a 3/5 star rating for losing a game recently. the member said nothing in the game chat. They played a decent well rounded game. It was an average plain jane game... The 3/5 star is labeled as ...
Most farmers (I think) start public games and just wait for noobs to join them. Mostly the other way: wait for games to show up (especially freestyle) then jump in while they have an advantage.
If they do set up games, they'll be on obscure maps (so the suggestion to "disallow new recruits from ...