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@tigerussell Because, if the system is really done randomly, you might have 4 more ghosts below you. Typically, 3/15 advance, or 20%. In this (possible) case, 2/10 players will advance, still 20%. As I described earlier, though perhaps not quite clearly enough, if the ghosts are selected at complete random from the entire player pools, they will help players in the top half of the ladder and hurt those in the bottom half, due to unbalanced wheels, but on average have no effect. The mere existence of ghosts creates additional slots for people to advance.
Imagine the most basic case: League one, 15 players. League 2, those 15 players and 15 near identical ghosts of those players, all jumbled up somehow. In league one, 3 people advance, as expected. In league two, six people advance, but on average three of them are ghosts (sometimes more, sometimes less). There will still be three humans advancing, on average. The problem with the system, assuming it is random, is that you don’t notice when you benefit, especially because nobody here has bothered to try to identify ghosts located at the bottom of their leagues.
If you don’t believe me, and would be interested, I can put together a simple excel simulation to confirm what I’ve said. The more important question, I maintain, is how are the ghosts chosen, because that’s what lets us determine if it really is fair. They should really limit ghosts to the same league if they actually want it to be fair for everyone on average, instead of fair for the players as a whole, on average.