Win loss record and in game leader boards

[phineas94]

Been on my mind for a while so here goes my first post on the forum.

The league point system does not work! All it shows is trends in a players form e.g. When season 2 started I had a 10 game winning streak (immediately followed by a 1 win in 8 streak). Because of the point glitch in the game at the start of the season I was still on 0 points after the 10 wins - disheartening to say the least. However, if this winning run had occurred just before the end of this season I would have accumulated 120-150 points, a total to put me on or near the top in most divisions regardless of how many games I had actually won or lost up to that point. This, in my mind would not show a league position but merely form.

With the introduction of previous seasons ranks as badges on your home page OML are surely putting some kudos on how well you've done - I know if i've been winning a lot of games what I don't know is how I fair against other players in my league. Something like 3 points for a win and -1 for a loss would work for me. As for the 50/50 win loss ratio - so what. If 20 players all had the same points or thereabouts nearing the end of season 2 just imagine how exciting it would be if your last game was against a near rival - a proper league finale!

A couple of questions

If you are promoted or demoted do you retain your point score from your previous league? I think you do but my memory isn't what it used to be. If this is the case then someone could potentially go into a higher league as a rank 1 player....and the season ended. Hooray! Number one! Again if this is the case I think starting from 0 points if you're promoted would be fine - got to prove your worth and all that. In the case of demotion possibly keeping your points or a fraction of.

Oh, it ended up just being one question. Sorry, getting carried away

A final idea just to try and balance the actual number of games played by different players and apologies in advance for any bad maths here. If you take the player in the league who's played the most games and then multiply everybody else's score by that number divided by their own number of games played. Does this work and/or make sense? Anyhow, rant over, and thank you for your indulgence