I&#x27;m not familiar with your experience to be honest.<p>For example in the Netherlands we have Football right. There&#x27;s 9 divisions. You get promoted or demoted at the end of the season, such that on average you&#x27;re roughly in the middle of a spectrum of 5% worse and 5% better teams.<p>Of course there&#x27;s lots of individual differences and some teams get much better suddenly in one season, and ought to play a division higher right away. But that&#x27;s an issue for online mechanics as well. Online mechanics make that 5% range more granular, sure, but the notion that thousands of teams aren&#x27;t rearranged isn&#x27;t true, that&#x27;s exactly what happens in most sports!<p>Of course going to the court and playing a quick match with strangers doesn&#x27;t have this effect, but the vast majority of football players play in some formal sense in a team which plays in some organisation&#x27;s league system with divisions. At least that&#x27;s how it is here, although football is an extraordinarily deep sport in most countries and so the difficulty of opposition will be less granular in other sports.