Can someone explain the ranking system to me?

[Kamikaze28]

(08-08-2012 06:05 PM)IronMagus Wrote:  That's...a bunch of crap. Comprehensible and meaningful leaderboard of 100 people? How is it meaningful to compare myself against 99 other random jack-offs, and ignore the whole rest of the player base? What about the thousands of other people just in my league, even? If I was 13,458 out of 84,514 then at least I could just shave off a couple orders of magnitude and know that I would rank about 13th in a room full of 85 random players. But what do I know right now? Only that I have about the same skill level as a group of players who were chosen based on the fact that they have about the same skill level as I do...what? You don't say!

I'm not saying that the current system is perfect for everybody, but most casual players look at a 4-digit ranking and completely ignore it. That's what I meant with meaningful - or perhaps it's better called 'useful'.
Plus: imagine you would have no divisions and could scroll through the entire league at once - that would be a usability disaster.

I can understand that you want to compare yourself to others at a glance and I must admit that this is currently not easily possible if at all. You can look at the total number of wins of your opponent and their points to see how active they are, but the only visible indication if skill is their league assignment, like I said. I didn't design this system, I just explained it as best as I could.