Looking at the yahoo ranks in literati, there's well over 13000 players. I haven't been around in a while, maybe there's 15, 18, 20 thousand ranked players. Some are multiple names, yeah, but still, conservatively, 10,000 active literati players.
On this ladder, we have 143. Barely 1% of all those 10K players are Cases ladder players.
Of this measly 143, less than 60 have even PLAYED an actual ladder match!! Most are unrated, with no matches!!!
I'm almost at the point of abandoning this ladder, it seems headed for oblivion.