Stone League more competitive?

of the 10 players above me in my section only 1 is rated higher than me, some as must as 800 lower, because of the way players play people close to their rating this is more of a quantity than quality league, so for the first few tiers I honestly believe that you will not see more competitive (higher rating) players.

It will completely depend on the division you get into.

Do we have any choice to opt-in or out of this 'league' stuff?  Personally, I want out.

two options

1. just ignore it

2. go to https://www.chess.com/leagues and click on "leave league"

I left and rejoined because the first stone division I got put in was ridiculously competitive.

What's nice is you can quickly and easily see how many trophies people had when promoted to stone. For example I clicked on everyone in my division and sorted them by trophies. The 15th highest had 400 when promoted from wood.

So it's reasonable for me to expect I'll need at least 400.

I don't know how competitive people are yet... I think most people who were promoted were just playing as they normally would, without knowing leagues exist. In other words we're not competing against everyone in the division yet. In later divisions you'll have to do something like check the average of the top __ and then add __ 100 or 1000 trophies.

Someone posted a similar issue in the News about the feature and I had bug reported it at the time.

Honestly no problems