"Ranking Degredation" for song scores

[Walrusizer]

just remove divisions entirely so its actually skill based

[blanky!]

FFR's divisional issues stem from a lack of new players. Let me repeat: FFR's divisional issues stem from a lack of new players.

Here's why. On average you'd expect the skill distribution of a community to roughly follow a power law curve with the lion's share of active players in the lower divisions (graph y=1/x on the first quadrant for a picture). However, in FFR's case, due to its declining userbase, most of the active userbase tends to be D4-D5 in skill. This is why a single division gauntlet-styled tournament won't work because you'll have, like, 70 mid-tier players overpowering some 30 novices whereas in an ideal situation you'd have 10 mid-tier players for every 100 novices.

Really this just points to how FFR rewards all its veterans and does absolutely nothing to attract new players. A shame, really, because most of us in the active community love FFR and/or Stepmania despite the respective issues each may pose.