Matching system works bad for top players

[phineas94]

(02-03-2013 12:34 PM)poweewee Wrote:  Could this also be an effect of the multitude of tournaments that are available to the players?

Tournament games are just "friendlies" aren't they? And as such don't impact on hidden rating. Is this right? If the top players, playing league games, are steadily maintaining/increasing their hidden rating by beating less skilled players perhaps the inclusion of a "Tournament Play" option, which gives you all the choices a "Friendly" affords, but where results affect the hidden rating could go some way to mixing things up a little better.

I've yet to enter the world of tournaments so don't know how this would be received but at least then the top 20 ( plucked from thin air) would get mixed up a little bit more and possibly bring about an increase in migration of players in the top 100??