Board Game Arena

For many games it is not feasible to restrict opponent level to leagues near your own league and it's well hidden in the settings in the first place. Matches between players of different leagues happen frequently. What is most annoying about the current system is that you can loose a large amount of points by getting matched against a player from leagues below yours and getting a little unlucky in a match. Especially for games with quite some luck involved, the current point system significantly reduces the fun of Arena when so much of your points are at stake. On the other hand, starting from a lower league you can get promoted quite easily by getting matches against high-league players. It often feels quite unearned to gain or loose 5 or 6 points from 1 single match.

It feels ok to just gain 2 or 1 points when winning against players from lower leagues, or loosing just 2,1 or 0 points when loosing against players from higher leagues. But the huge swings of Arena points by single matches should be limited. So I suggest you can gain or loose a maximum of 4 points in a single Arena match, you gain 4 points when winning against anyone from any league above you (no matter how far away the league is), and you loose 4 poinst against any players from any leagues below yours.

Here you can vote for it: https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=15701

This would also enforce that you have to win at least 3 games in any league to get promoted.

You can see in Can't Stop that most active players are in the higher leagues already and if you started Can't Stop Arena as a new player late in the season, it was super-easy to gain Arena points by being matched against high-league players frequently and having a bit of luck. The promotions didn't feel earned in any way.

Hi,

I think it was exactly the purpose of the arena mode : if you win against high level players you win a lot of points and if you loose against a low level player you loose a lot.
This enables the first in the ranking will be not necessarily the most active players but really those who win the most games (and against the best players).