Tiered ladder

Matchmaking

Use Tiered ladder when teams should play opponents near their current tier and move between tiers after each round.

• Every team enters a round with a frozen tier.
• In N-team rotation, each team belongs to one result pool: the teams whose round performance is evaluated together.
• In Full matches, activity is balanced before similar entering tiers are preferred.
• The rematch setting determines whether repeat opponents are allowed, discouraged, or blocked.
• For N-team rotation, the next-tier calculation starts from the pool's average entering tier.
• For Full matches, it starts from the actual opponents' matchup-weighted average entering tier.
• First place moves the result one tier stronger; last place moves it one tier weaker.
• Intermediate places are distributed evenly and rounded toward the stronger tier.
• A winner cannot be demoted, and a last-place or forfeiting team cannot be promoted.

League points

Your round award starts with the base value for your entering tier, then adds the configured performance adjustment. You can specify a scale value, which is used in the following way:

• Relative round placement ranges from +scale for first to −scale for last.
• Round W–L–T record uses scale × (wins − losses) ÷ games.
• Full matches always use your team's own round W–L–T adjustment.
• The base award value can be configured as either a minimum plus an increment per tier, or interpolated between a minimum and maximum.

When results appear

N-team rotation can project a completed pool independently. For Full matches, projections appear only after every required score in the round is filled.