AIIIEEEE! My brain hurts Tesco.
That all sounds great, but very complex. This wouldn't be a standard ladder where you play anyone and move up by winning, that sort of thing. I want to give people the incentive to play people they have not played against before. I want this to be a league where you have to play everybody. I don't want to restrict people from playing only people within five spots of them. I want everybody to play everybody, as much as possible anyway.
Good idea about an incentive for staying in the game to the end. Hows this:
Instead of wins and losses, we count only wins. Losing just doesn't give you a win, but leaving a game in progress without at least ackowledging the other player beat you takes away one of your previous wins.
I would like to only allow two of your wins to be against one person. Once you have beaten that person two times, you can still play them, but if you win it will have no effect cause it will "bump out" one of your previous wins, so no net change. They can however earn a win by beating you. Once you each have two wins against each other there is no net change by playing each other. But since this is a league we will have seasons. Every six months or so we start a new season and drop all the old records. Everybody start over at zero wins.
Geoschmo