How season minutes thresholds work

Raw leaderboards reward outliers. A substitute who scores once in twenty minutes can post an absurd rating or per-90 number. Without a minutes filter, “top of the table” stops meaning “best over a meaningful sample.”

TackleZone therefore requires players to reach a minutes threshold before they lead rankings and many homepage highlights. For a full, completed campaign we typically use a high floor — around 900 minutes — so leaders have played a real chunk of the season.

The current season is different. In the opening weeks almost nobody has 900 minutes yet. We use a progressive rule: early on, the bar is lower (starting around a full match’s worth of time), then it steps up as the league’s busiest players accumulate appearances, eventually returning to the full-season standard.

That balance keeps early lists useful without crowning one-game wonders. As the season matures, the same logic that protects last-season rankings kicks back in.

When you see “min X mins” on Rankings or Stats, that is the active floor for the season you are viewing. Switch seasons in the sidebar to compare a completed year against the developing one.