MTG League Seasons: Time-Bounded Standings Inside a League
An MTG league season is a time-bounded scoreboard that runs inside your league. You set a start date and an end date, and every game recorded in that window builds a fresh set of standings — without disturbing the league's all-time or yearly ELO.
What an MTG league season is
An MTG league season is a named, dated period inside an existing league. The commissioner picks a title, an optional description, a start date, and an end date, and the league gets a season-specific ELO scoreboard for the duration.
Each season has:
- A title shown on the league page (Spring 2026, Q1 cEDH).
- A start and end date — games recorded inside that window count toward the season.
- Its own ELO standings for players and decks, starting at 1000 and updating game by game.
- Its own ELO history, in the league's ELO History tab when the season is selected.
Seasons sit alongside the league's existing standings rather than replacing them. League ELO and yearly ELO keep updating as normal; a season opens a third scoreboard on its own clock.
What a season can be scoped to
A season's window is just two dates, so the same mechanism covers several shapes:
- Calendar stretches. Spring, summer, fall, winter — each with its own champion, while the all-time ladder tracks the long arc.
- Tournaments inside a league. A Q1 Open season scores a tournament separately from the ongoing rating.
- Fresh starts. Everyone begins a season at 1000 regardless of their league rating.
- Concurrent competitions. A monthly season and an annual season can run at the same time, and a single game updates both.
What changes for players when a season is active
When an MTG league season is active, three things happen on the league page automatically:
- A season pill appears in the league's tab row, next to All Time and any yearly tabs. Tap it to scope Members, Decks, ELO History, and Games to the season.
- Per-season ELO standings begin at 1000 for each player the first time they play during the season. Wins, losses, and plus/minus track separately from the league's all-time numbers.
- Every league game recorded inside the season's date range counts automatically. Recording is unchanged, and the season ELO updates the moment the game is logged.
Season Standings covers reading the per-season tabs.
What doesn't change
Seasons are additive. Starting one — or three — doesn't roll back, freeze, or rewrite anything else.
- League all-time ELO keeps updating game by game.
- Yearly ELO partitions by calendar year, independent of seasons.
- Player and deck profiles still show all-time and league ELO. Season ELO is an extra view, not a replacement.
Archiving a season hides it from the league page and can be undone. Deleting one permanently removes its ELO data.
Where to go next
Seasons are commissioner-controlled; the controls live under Manage League → Seasons. Creating and Managing MTG League Seasons walks through that panel field by field, and The Commissioner Role covers the rest of the commissioner's tools.