Another league system
Here is another idea for a league system - based on the actual ladder system. How does this system work?
We devide ALL ladder users by let's say 18, 19 oder 20 users and put them in leagues.
Of course - the best 20 players are ranked in league 1. The best 21 - 40 users are ranked in league 2, and so on.
And all games (still auto generated) you get are against players within your league.
So the first goal a user has is to become rank 1-5 in his league to get in the next league.
We could define, that only the first 3 or 5 users of a league will acent to the higher league and the last 3 or 5 users of a league will descend.
The point when the ascending and descending is happening must be defined, too. This could be after a give time (maybe once a week) or when something other happened (you should have played enough games in the league, too).
Also the ELO-system could be completly retained (this system is great).
Why this league system?
Well, as here is not only rank 1 what everyone want to reach, here are many small goals everyone has to reach which improves the motivation of all players. Of course all new players are within the last - the unranked league and have to be under the 5 best unranked at the give time (or what ever) to ascend into the next league.
I hope my suggestion is understandable. :-)
Greetings from Germany,
Martin
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Filipe Cruz commented
can be done using CLOT