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What is the point of the leagues/divisions anyways?

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Tempetown
Tempetown
Feb 13, 2025
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#101

The entire point of leagues is to generate more activity so chess.com can charge more for advertising.

Tempetown
Tempetown
Feb 13, 2025
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#102
MonoPueyrredon wrote:
Martin_Stahl wrote:
MonoPueyrredon wrote:

Worst thing is chess.com says leagues and division don't affect MATCHMAKING.
Am I CRAZY? they pair you up with people of the same league... hence you are paired with either people who WIN A LOT or PLAY A LOT
Are you telling me the "time spent" variable does not matter how hard a player tries to win? or the effort he puts into each game?
I have deactivated leagues and games seem to be more varied.
I am not always PLAYING AGAINST A DUDE WHO PLAYS 10+ GAMES a DAY LIKE ME 

Leagues have zero impact on pairing

its funny how each time I state my opinion, a moderator comes, and says "it ain't like that" without even counterarguing or explanation. Seems you skipped reading my message entirely.
I know that.
I stated that.
Your mathematical model disregards "playing lots of games a day" as an explanatory variable
Which many times also translates into "doing lots of puzzles" or "watching a lot of learning videos"
Basically, leagues match you up with highly motivated people or people in "training mode"
So how can you say that DOESNT affect matchmaking??

short answer? dont listen to @martinstahl. he is nothing but an unpaid chess.com promoter.

MonoPueyrredon
MonoPueyrredon
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Feb 16, 2025
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#103
Tempetown wrote:
MonoPueyrredon wrote:
Martin_Stahl wrote:
MonoPueyrredon wrote:

Worst thing is chess.com says leagues and division don't affect MATCHMAKING.
Am I CRAZY? they pair you up with people of the same league... hence you are paired with either people who WIN A LOT or PLAY A LOT
Are you telling me the "time spent" variable does not matter how hard a player tries to win? or the effort he puts into each game?
I have deactivated leagues and games seem to be more varied.
I am not always PLAYING AGAINST A DUDE WHO PLAYS 10+ GAMES a DAY LIKE ME 

Leagues have zero impact on pairing

its funny how each time I state my opinion, a moderator comes, and says "it ain't like that" without even counterarguing or explanation. Seems you skipped reading my message entirely.
I know that.
I stated that.
Your mathematical model disregards "playing lots of games a day" as an explanatory variable
Which many times also translates into "doing lots of puzzles" or "watching a lot of learning videos"
Basically, leagues match you up with highly motivated people or people in "training mode"
So how can you say that DOESNT affect matchmaking??

short answer? dont listen to @martinstahl. he is nothing but an unpaid chess.com promoter.

TY for your input, going crazy here. Moderators appear every time I answer in one of these "leagues" posts.
Winning more games since I left leagues. Clearly, I can't check for the placebo effect. However, opponents have lower accuracy in general.
COULD IT BE BECAUSE THE MORE YOU PLAY THE BETTER YOU GET AT AVOIDING MISTAKES?
HENCE playing people in higher leagues tend to mean less mistakes?
Leave your leagues and let me know people, just make the try