What do you want in a Ladder?

[00owl]

You might be right about losing skill rating, just I couldn't understand how someone with so many losses and not that many more wins than me could be on top on the ladder, something isn't adding up. Just looked broken to me...

Yeah I think the current ladder version that is live in-game, is a mixture of the ELO and some messed up half-baked system.

Though it is technically possible in the ELO system that someone with more losses could be higher than someone with more wins if the wins of the first person, though few and far between, were all against the highest ranking people, and the wins of the second person were against the lowest ranking people.

200 wins at 1 point each is less than 50 wins at 10 points each.

EDIT: *Historical Note*
I believe that the ELO was designed specifically for, and is still used by, professional chess leagues.