Grrrrr. I spent the whole last week competing against players ahead of me who should have (and presumably did) advance out of the Diamond III league but were showing up in my league despite my tech support tickets and asking for help on this forum.
The league system is seriously messed up.
The league rules (according to the diagrams on the league pages) show that the top 5 finishers for the week will advance to the next league. This theoretically creates space for the players who finished in 6th to 15th place an opportunity to advance upwards in the following week. The players who finish in 16th to 25th place are demoted in leagues (where they fall in the reshuffling is unknown). By continuing to compete against players who should have advanced, players are handicapped because they can't beat a group of players who have many more points then them at the beginning of the week.
This week, due to a frenzy of map opening, I was lucky enough to advance. Unfortunately, three of the players who were ahead of me last week that I shouldn't have been competing against are showing up in my league this week (one is 88 points ahead of me to start the week...).
Additionally, as I advanced leagues, six players who were ranked 16 - 25 showed up in my league this week. Again, according to the league rules, these players should not be showing up in my league this week. As a matter of fact, they should be two leagues below me as they would have been demoted one league while I was promoted one league.
Please remove the players from my league this week who should have been in a higher league last week and who I probably should not be competing against this week. Also, please find out what is going on with the league system, report back to us as a community, and fix it!!!!!
Also, as you get answers and remedies, please address the disparity in rankings. The point differential in this week's league is 179 points at the start.