Or just simply remove inactive players from the lists until they play their next game? Overall ranking would then indicate the best active player in long term. "Inactive" = haven't played for six months, for example.
No no no, that isn't the same, it isn't even close to being the same:
For those of you who have been playing WA Competitive League ever since WACL will have hopefully noticed something.
Each League has ran for roughly 3 or 4 years at most before dying out, each time a new League starts activity picks up (WACL / WL / FB / and now TuS, are the 4 biggest ones I remember).
Especially with FB & TuS (because ladders & no DoN) when all the top spots were hogged by inactive players towards the end, less people would play.
Now in TuS it's getting beyond ridiculous, over 5 years (that's a HUGE HUGE period of time for an era of a League) and personally I see an all-time low now for competitive excitement in a Classic League, being reduced to "Cash Prizes" etc just to try and keep people interested...
Reset the League ! It needs to be done !