I still don’t really get federations.
The concept seems a good idea for creating sub communities but they feel half hearted.
Anyway..
The league of federations tournament has started again with prizes for the top 5 federations. Which basically means the 5 biggest federations are rewarded for winning a proportional number of games. Encouraging users who want to win to also join the top 5-10 biggest federations. (Yawn)
Surely a better model would be rank federations based on over/ under index of results relative to the team’s taking part’s ranking.
Eg. A federation is rewarded when a team over performs relative to their ranking.
Appreciate the ranking system itself is very flawed but at least in a model like this all federation teams can make a tangible contribution. Indeed any team who over-performs vs their peers is a huge asset.
Just a thought.