I suspect the website optimizes for giving you the most desirable matches first to give you hope that you can match with people like that. Thus it follows some

I suspect the website optimizes for giving you the most desirable matches first to give you hope that you can match with people like that. Thus it follows some sort of a power law, where the most desirable options get the most matches, and everybody else gets whatever they can get. Yes, there's talk of ELO score, but I haven't seen evidence of that much in practice.