first off, sry if this has been discussed.

i propose that the game would have 3 player ranks

beginner, this is what you start as, duh : ) 

intermediate 100-200 games played win rate >40%

pro 200+ games played win rate >50%

the numbers are quite batshit random atm, but im sure you'll get the idea. I also realize it is not too hard to cook a players stats with premades and nub bashing, however, i think this will be the minority of cases.

why do we need ranks?

so we could set a hard rank limit for custom games. eg. only beginners allowed to enter lobby.

so pantheon games would attempt to match up intermediates with intermediates...or at least have same ranks on both sides.

if skirmish ever returns in any form, i believe the ranks would help in random matchups also.

one could still make a custom game with no rank limitation ofcourse. this would just be an added option.