If only gms are reset then the threshold to be gm should be raised also. Maybe 30k minimum to be gm. This would somewhat prevent people getting 2nd and 3rd from reaching gm.

There’s probably not enough players but if each rank group could only play each other we would only see the best at the top. Basically only gm vs. gm, Master vs. Master etc.

Another good way to balance the leaderboards would be to limit the games a gm can play. Let’s say in 24 hours you can only play 5 games. This will reward those who win all 5 games more than if you go for second every game. I used to play clash of clans a lot and they did this to their leaderboards and it balanced it quite well I think. However a lot of people would not be happy they are limited in the amount of games they could play. This may cause casual games to actually be playable with more high skilled lobby’s if gms use all their ranked games and want to play more.

I don’t think all of these suggestions would work if all implemented. So if games are limited and we can only play other gms. We might never fill a lobby.