Is there a way to play in the arena and avoid bad reputation players?

[Buzzillion]

There's nothing worse than being put into an arena game with a player with a terrible reputation who then abandons the game in the final round when you're about to win.

[Jellby]

There are thousands of things worse than that, you're lucky if you haven't experienced them

This (or some variant) has been raised many times, for every game. See here https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=37451 and apply it to reputation instead of level. Whether or not it works, that's most likely not game-specific.

[Buzzillion]

You are a gentleman and a scholar. Thank you for the help!

[dresdengiraffe]

Maybe this works well in the arena but it does not work great in general play in my (very recent!) experience. Keep having people with 36% reps trying to join a game set to 75+ Maybe BGA thinks I'd rather have any game than wait for some well-behaved players to join. They're wrong...