why is everybody playing lower rated players.
Because they always want to win i guess
I always set higher in my settings, highest possible by chess.com standards actually and have been playing it without changes for many years.
Actually if I could I would set all my opponents to be 200 + more then my rating and play just with this members , but chess.com doesn't let you.
By playing higher rated players you get more experience, more rating points and don't get bored so I like it.
How do you set higher in settings?
No math genius here, but if you are steadily improving, won't the average rating of folks you have played always be a bit lower? It never gets a chance to catch up.
True True. Good point.
If you really think about it, people grow rating over time. Therefore, it theyre a relatively newer player or have not played a certain time controlled game a lot yet, their average opponent rating will be lower since they have played lower rated opponents in the past.
If you want to play higher rated players, you can use chess.com settings and go to live chess, and set your preferred rating range for you opponent to be whatever you want. 
ironic. the people you look at might have this phenomenon, but if you think about it, their opponents might have the reverse!
If someone is improving, obviously the avarage opponent rating will be lower than theirs.
Not me, i set my opponent range to higher than mine
I set mine on the high side of my rating but it won't alter the fact if you're improving.
i do random
well if you think about it very roughly 50 percent of players are playing lowere rated players in any given game.
I do something like +125 and -50 or -75
See mine
