is there a such thing as leagues?

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The term League appears to be too specific. Rather the rating of a persons entire importance and prestige in relation to his/her fellow men.
this rating seems to be rather fluent, especially the one for prestige which always also depends on the actual behavior, style and persons he/she is with. The importance means not that much intelligence as the importance of the job he/she has and the amount of money that is earned. I consider it as success for this case. Intelligence doesn't always lead to success, the "tool" is far not as important as the "product".
in the long run importance seems to be more important than prestige though high importance also improves the prestige very much.
I consider beauty as a part of prestige for this case. It's free prestige that he/she is born with. So in the beginning, when he/she and his/her fellow men are young the league for beautiful people will always be a higher one since nobody is important in this age. But once the importance factor joins the rating it will lose it's meaning more and more.
I don't think that beautiful people will always have beautiful partners. But intelligent people could never be satisfied with a stupid partner. They would feel lonely. How could they both benefit from each other if they won't be able to communicate, if their interests are totally different? Only sexually? Sounds lame. That's the simple version, in the "rating" version there is always a kind of arrogance, it's rather about the person itself than about the one he/she is too low or too high for. It's the egoistical thought of wanting to be superior, some persons wouldn't even be considered as potential partners, they will be filtrated out by his/her mind automatically. Because subconscious there are constantly those rating systems which would concern everybody who is sensated by him/her, the rating would become clearer with every information that would be learned.
In the beginning it's of course the surface which also includes information about ones importance, and later it will become the character.
Isn't that a totally healthy process of evolution?

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Leagues would form a series of categories and categories require criteria for the specification of their models. What models are selected is a function of what one considers desirable, the methods allowable to the person, and the desired purpose of the model's result. In this way, I doubt there exists objective leagues in any sense and, if there were, their empirical observability seems unlikely; if they cannot be observed, any causal story invoking them is not particularly useful.

This is pretty league-ish

I think "leagues" has to do with positive assortative mating- that is, people being attracted to those with a similar level of attractiveness, education, income, religiosity, on so on and so forth.

Not to say that the blue collar KFC-loving Christian can't date and marry the raw-food eating atheist college professor,
you just don't see it happen that often.

Okay... serious answer.

I believe leagues are a self-imposed limitation. "She's out of my league" or some variant of is really just saying "I'm not good enough for her". It underlines self-defeat and a low opinion of oneself.

The opposite is true when someone deems themselves out of someone else's league. Over-inflated ego, entitlement, and an unrealistic sense of self-importance.

Are there leagues? Yes, but they are the result of self destructive behavior/thinking.

No. Anyone who thinks there are "leagues" are just setting themselves up for failure.

They only exist subjectively, and as such, they are completely different for each person. They are therefore quite meaningless, since you can't go, "That girl is out of my league" when you know her concept of the "league" is different to yours.

TBH, the whole concept is just extremely simplified BS used by the media to create schadenfreudian "humour" when people get rejected, and occasionally to make someone look "inspirational" when they get a girl "out of their league"

People graduate college and get married. Fact.

I see the college as the container. And any individual can pick any other individual, and the "leagues" are not a limitation.

That being said, I think similar beliefs and backgrounds allow two people to understand one another at a deeper level. Meaning there are less surprises in the relationship.

Yes I think leagues exist in some sense.

For example a guy like me can probably not date a girl who looks like Victoria Justice or Emma Roberts because these girls are obviously better looking and much more popular than me.

"Leagues" is usually translated as "class", both in terms of wealth, and in terms of personality and morality, not to mention looks.
(For instance "low class" can simultaneously mean "poor" AND "oh that person is a lying thief").

I don't even know what "league" I'm in. I think I got booted out of the leagues and don't really fit in anywhere.

i am a hermit and in nobody's league. would that i could at least belong to a league in which comparisons to other leagues could be made.

I think I've been sent down to the minors...