Originally Posted by Kaelissa
The reason it seems kind of bad, in my eyes, is that it basically gives a huge advantage to teams that are already doing well, and means that new players/characters joining subsequent Seasons will be squashed almost immediately.
If there's no "stop" point to the seasons there isn't a lot of point to them at all. In sports, a team that won 100% of its games the previous year doesn't automatically make it to the World Series (etc) the next season. Moreover, the WORST performing teams get the top draft picks, not the best teams.
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The point to season is for people to progress to the regional tournaments, award netherdrakes, etc. The problem with the idea of "resets" is this. Let's say you're a 1700 team. You've been working all season but 1700 is your limit. Let's say 1700 gives 500 arena points a week.
Now we reset everyone back to 1500. Now you have to play 2000+ rating teams, who are clearly out of your league, but you lose points as though they were a true 1500 rating. Now this knocks you down to 1300 rating for the first 2-3 weeks until these teams stratify themselves again, thus for 2-3 weeks you only got 200 arena points instead of 500. And now you have to slowly progress back up to the rating you were at last season. Does it still seem like a good idea to reset the ladder?