People manipulating Divisions

People are keeping their ratings really low, then in the last hour before the week-end division scoring they'll beat a bunch of people because they are much higher rated and get first place in the division.  People with a 400 rating, etc. 

Meanwhile people playing at 1600, for examples, are winning real games against equal strength opponents.

Not sure why people game the Divisions, or what can actually be done about it.  Perhaps its not important, but it was easy to notice it happening.

Is there some extra benefit to being first in a division?

That's not really a good method for leagues, which don't have any benefit for promoting. The primary method of promoting is just playing a lot of games.

However, if you think someone is sandbagging their rating you should report them.

https://support.chess.com/en/articles/8562517-how-do-i-report-someone

Its not worth the effort, I'm saying its being done.

No idea why people cheat at stuff that has no reward other than getting up to the top league as fast as they can.

At the top of each league I've been in so far, there are several people rated 300, or 400 and they never go up in rating somehow.

However, they generate a lot of points and move to the top every time.

Nothing else to say here, its just Site Feedback.

Leagues work so that there is no penalty for losing games, hence the division rating of a player never decreases. Additionally lower rated players might play much more games than higher rated players. This makes lower rated players stay lower rated and allows them get in the top in a completely legal way. Suppose, you have played 10 rapid games and won them all and some 400-rated guy has played 25 rapid games and won 11 only, nevertheless the 400-rated guy would be higher in the leaderboard than you

Sure, there might be players who do not follow the Fair Play but I dont think it is about all of them