[Zanthis]

Good post Laz. Like the system. I've always favored point swapping ranking systems, as opposed to those that generate points. However, the system will still suffer some inflation as new players come, lose some points to better players and then leave. The players that stick around will slowly amass large numbers of points (although, given the speed of a SE4 game, that might take many years).

Of course, seasons would eliminate that problem. Or, instead of just resetting everyone each season, you could rescale them all to be within say a 1000 to 2000 point range.

If inflation is too bad, adding a "cost" for each game of a few points may handle that. So if the loser's donation is 40 points, the winner might only get 37 leaving 3 points to be removed from the system.