I'm just saying your only major win (Fullmetal, everybody else was unranked) was a hard character counter pick.
The part I don't like is: I 2-0'd Stingers and Mott, who you both lost to. That's two losses to two players, who aren't even ranked, which is two more losses to non-ranked players than I have, which should automatically put you beneath David or Theo, if not under me or Stingers. How is this not obvious?
It's not as simple as that. It's not just how many PR and non-PR players you beat or lost to. You have to look at all players records simultaneously.
I beat Ali (who beat Cyrain, Druggedfox, and someone who I don't remember right now).
I beat Fullmetal (who beat Rayku and several other GA players in GA the previous weekend, as well as several other NC PR players between the G6's)
I beat David (Who beat me and you)
I beat Wife (don't remember who else he beat)
I lost to Krox (unranked player, don't remember if he beat anyone else)
I lost to Stingers (lost to you, beat KP)
I lost to Mott (who beat Sleepy, lost to you)
I lost to David (who beat you)
The things working for me are the fact that I beat someone who beat many other players in NC as well as other OOS ranked players (Fullmetal) and I beat Ali who beat Cyrain (9th at Pound) and Druggedfox (2nd at a big GA tournament the weekend before).
The thing I have working most against me is my loss to Krox, who has no other notable wins and Stingers. My loss to Mott isn't that bad, since he also beat Sleepy (who beat twitch). It helps you more than it hurts me.
Your situation is that you have two decent wins, and a loss to David (again, how close it was does not matter) and Theo (who has no other notable wins). You beat Mott and Stingers, both players I lost to, but you didn't beat anyone that good. As far as the records go this period, your loss to Theo is pretty bad, since he beat no one else good this period. The reason he was above you is because he has one decent win (you) and absolutely no bad losses. As I said in a previous post, we might have overlooked your beating Mott when making the rankings. This would potentially put you at 10 instead of Theo, but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't push you above me. I've been trying to get up with Kevin on AIM since I made that post, but I haven't been able to.
One thing that is important is that each result is not necessarily equal. Me beating fullmetal is a very big win, because he also beat a lot of other really good people. You're right, I beat him with a character with a really big advantage, but that doesn't really matter. I'm not trying to defend that I'm the '8th best player in the state,' or even that I'm better than you, only that I have the 8th best set-count record in the state for this ranking period. Power rankings only describe how well you did vs others during a certain period. They do not describe skill, although there is an obvious correlation. The correlation becomes weaker as you get to the last few spots on the power rankings, because there is less data.
It really annoys me that everyone always accuses me of biasing the rankings in my favor. I don't really care where I am on the powerrankings, because I know it doesn't always correlate with skill. In fact, I figured I wouldn't be on the powerrankings at all until I beat Fullmetal. It's especially annoying when no one even considers which other players Fullmetal and Ali beat before jumping to conclusions. . .
