What is the point of the leagues/divisions anyways?

This is one of the reasons I mostly play on Lichess.

This week hardly anyone played mega games so by playing my normal weekly number of games I am on top. I guess the league mania is passing.

I'm close to being promoted to Champion league but barely pay any attention to it and don't play hundreds of games a day as someone on here says, I don't see the point of this, it's obv just a ploy to get you to play more in general though for those that care about pointless trophies.

The league system is interesting but I would like to see it adapted to each format (  Blitz ... ) and giving points for quality instead of quantity .

For example in Blitz I oscillate between rating 1000 and 1200 and I would like to see my ranking compared with similar players currently active .

The league system could be finessed a little to reflect more quality rather than quantity of games played. I don’t consider myself Championship level but that’s where I ended up.

I think you can't play on one account like 4 games with different members, it automatically log out the previous device..

League are useless to me.

In my understanding i believe the chess.com devs want to encourage people to play chess more competitively more often. They also want to encourage folks to play longer games which provide deeper levels of strategy and discovery. They want us to push the boundaries of chess skill beyond the limits of our current playerbase. While this is happening theyre trying to foster a positive atmosphere where winning or losing does not matter as much as playing the game. You dont lose when you lose and you win when you win. Nobody is a loser when you play chess which is why you dont lose points. 

I had the impression that people concerned about leagues played a lot of bullet games in arenas to amass points. The more games the more victories compared to someone who plays rapid time controls.

I enjoy playing to advance in my division. Sometimes I don't feel like analysing and learning my games. Other times I just feel like blitzing a bunch of games out, it's enjoyable from time to time.

Normally I play 20-40 rapid games per week, no chance to get promoted but in the past months I got several times flu and covid, stood in the bed and that times were good to earn points, it was enough to win about 70-80 games in a week,  not hundreds,  to reach the next level and it was a good way to forget a little bit about the sickness

This approach is very common in many apps. By using cmpetition and gamefication they estimulate us to play more and more and that does not cost them anything, since the prize is just moving us to another league (where you are forced to keep playing more and more). This way they have many players online and win more money for players that até not Premium, since they have to see ads in between games. I study french using Duolingo and they do exactly the same, not rewarding the ones that study harder and get higher scores, but the ones that keep doing the easy, fastest lessons. Anyways, knowing that and since It does not interfere with any other aspect of the game and you also have an option to exit the league I do not think we should Care about it that much.

There are a lot of under 1200 players in the Legend section. 

Just saw that too, they started a tournament every month with prizes for the first second and third places. And since they also created 3 categories (Under 1400, 1800 and free, I think) than it makes sense that people play a lot even if they dont learn as much, because they will compete with similar ratings in the end.

the logic/point of the leagues is to try to get into the legendary club...are yall not?!...oops...

I have ignored the whole section thing for months. Then I saw that I was ranked 1 in Champion with only 550 points. I played a few more games and was promoted to Legend, not that I in any way deserve it. What a development. Usually you have to play 80 hours a week to get promoted. 

Don't like it?

Im on top in my silver division. I have 700 points lead to otherplayers now. I did broke 1000 points  all ready  .Looks like now that win did came but what it does mean? I saw somekind of record from somthing 5000 and some points, but are they from the one week? Where did i went. There is 5 h time to play still but looks like that i won. My score are in this moment 1410

They are for fun.

Leagues don't mean anything. It's the chess.com version of the omegle points game.