-37 elo for winning???

I stumbled upon one of my favourite chess commentators David Howell and when I tried ro play him, it showed -37 for a win, -18 for a draw and +0 for a win??? The game was aborted as I was absolutely stumped and I don't hate elo that much. But can someone from chess.com explain this to me and I hope I can play David Howell again someday

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ITS basically the reverse so +37 and -0 this is a bug that I also have.

Wow, that is really weird!!!

Does it give you the elo or do you actually lose the elo

Same for me too, but rating is getting added

i also have the same problem but it is reverse and it will work to get elo after a win

I also had this

I played a 1570 in bullet and it said that if I won I lost 10 elo and if a lost I got 6 and if I drew I lost 2

I won the game and got 10 elo so this is probably a visual glitch

for me i can't join arenas, it says i have been doing rating malipulation (sandbagging) but i haven't

It happened to me also. Not sure why

put this issue in chess.com beta club

also I think that everything should be negated, so it should be
win = +37

draw = + 18

lose = -0

That's probably correct.

Probably just a bug with the display.

That's unusual. It's probably a bug, it should be like this @Julius28300 and @Raghav-Ramesh said.

It's not a bug at all. If you play against someone rated much higher than you, you get a lot of elo for a win and no minus elo for a loss. And you play against someone rated much lower than you, you lose a lot of elo for a loss and no plus elo for a win.

He's playing a higher-rated opponent. It's showing a negative number for a win. Either it should be a positive number that is being displayed incorrectly as negative, or perhaps it's incorrectly showing the negative adjustment his opponent will receive if he wins, rather than showing the positive adjustment he would receive from the win.