MEAN FOKKER wrote: Never have I claimed to be the best and I never will claim to be the best..and you are exactly right of accumulating points.but doesn't it by accumulating points in this game take some sort of skill..lo,
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[NLR] McFate wrote: Is there anyone here who actually believes the place you hold in world rank is directly linked to skill? ....it isn't. All it means is that the account has accumulated the most points.
Mean, Davy, Wig and BStranchan were all great players but were any of them "the best" ? ... I guess that's subjective so maybe they were.
(Btw, unless it's a matter of harassment, shouldn't PMs remain "P" regardless of the content? )
No. There is no direct correlation between skill and points. If you lost points for getting shot down or for losing games then it would, but the way it works is just a reflection of how much you play. Call it the "Pluribus factor" you could log in and park and still gain points for wins and losses. Plur managed to stay in the top 50 for years. He would log in and try a sneak... if he was shot down there he would sit until the end of the game. The only times I saw him fight was to keep his KDR from going negative.
And Mean, I've never seen you claim to be the best, no worries there. You are the "champ" so that should earn you some sort of bragging rights... but it isn't objective proof that anyone is "the best".