The leader board is (ordered by number of Village Elders)!
is there a 2nd criteria used that sorts the position out if many people have the same number of elders?

I think the concept of leaderboards is wrong..Maybe it should be done away with...it only increases the no.of cheaters as everyone wants to go up the leaderboard...If this is the case not even a single genuine players name would be on the leaderboard after 10 days....

Ok I have now been a member for about a week and see what you all mean about cheaters, whilst most people love to get their 15 minutes of fame & get their name on the board it seems to me that if you are one of the "lucky" ones that gets 51 or even 52 elders you will stay on the board for ever, even if they quit the tribe & start a new one.
One option could be if players dont update their stats every so many days then they drop off the board, also the board could be extended with a button to view the next 100 etc. I appreciate it won't do anything to stop the cheaters but if it was set to show all players who had acheived the 50 elders & 16 puzzles/tasks at least the honest people would get the chance to say "I made it"

If someone doesn't want to be competitive, they don't have to click refresh, or check the leaderboards, or check these posts. That's just randomly to whoever thinks there shouldn't be leaderboards, no specific person in mind.

Personally I would like to see a patch that enables you to get more elders. As it is the only way you can get beyond 50 is by pure luck.

Let's face it.
We all feel our names should be up there.
And if we were, you all would be under me, of course.

I haven't looked at the leaderboard for a while but I'm glad to see it's been fixed. I don't expect to see myself on there, though. I'm not very good at making elders.

I don't know if this has been said, but... When you click Statistics, you see how you rank in 13 different categories. But on this website, the Leaderboard shows only 6 categories, and it's ranked based on a single category only -- number of elders.

Seems to me that if players are ranked in 13 categories, then there should be 13 Leaderboards. Or there should be one Leaderboard that shows all 13 categories and it should be sortable. Surely that doesn't seem too far-fetched.

I mean, here I am past 2000 hours of playing time and I'm finally getting to the tops of some of the categories, but I'm never going to have more than 50 elders and so I'm never going to appear on the one and only Leaderboard. That kinda sucks.

Four of my villages have the normal maximum of 50 Elders. The stats page within the game shows I am 77th (yesterday I was 72nd). However, none of my villages appears on the leader board, which is supposed to show the top 100. All 100 show 51 or more Elders. How does that work, then?

Last night my stats page said that I was rank 75 in elders. Wow, I'm gonna look on leader board -- NO WAY, JOSE.