If you see that the avg elo of top 99.9 is growing way faster than the others. This basically leads to inflation. If the top players gain more elo than the other players, the gap widens worsening the inflation.
Overall, the player size increase by 7k, which is good, but inflation is clearly visible in the dataset
Yes, Overtime the difference goes so much, it becomes unreasonable for any player to even attempt to reach the leaderboard. It is already happening, at this moment. Reaching higher elos requires a lot of games to be played and there is no easy way to climb. Unless, someone is willing to dedicate countless hours over many weeks it is unlikely to see someone gain a lot of elo.
The active player criteria was changed for May 2026, so in the older versions it represents only the players above 1000 elo, not the one below 1000, so the active percentile values will be inflated
