So since it’s been a year since I began using leagues, I decided to take a look at how ladder activity has changed through time.
Back in September 2019, ladder had 918 unique users. In September 2020, ladder had 1800 unique users.
This sounds great and for the most part it is. We saw a 100% growth in players in both <300 and 300-800 brackets. We also saw a 45% increase in the 800-1300 bracket. Finally, there’s 30% more players in 1300-1800.
However, there was actually a 58% decrease in 1800+ players since then. That sounds quite extreme, but really it means there’s about 9 less players in the 1800+ bracket. To me that value can easily be explained by FAF burnout due to repeated high level tournaments as well as a list of other more personal motivations to play FAF less often. Overall, it seems like ladder is more vibrant.