Another twist on Fargorate data

Coos Cues

Coos Cues
I have not seen this discussed and I apologize if this is old news.

So I was poking around at the top player lists in the app and only about a quarter of all players have their settings so people can view their public match history.

But plenty enough are available to get a fair representation.

So if you look at any given player that has their wins and losses visible and divide the games they won by the games they played you come up with a winning percentage number.

Looking at these top player lists I was surprised to see that virtually no one wins more than 2 out of 3 games no matter their fargo. Of course better players are matching up against similar competition but many are also playing a lot of "scrubs". So you would expect these winning percentages to vary widely but oddly they all seem to fall between about 58% and 64% no matter who you look at. I didn't inspect anything but the top player lists and they all seem similar from region to region.

I could only find one player who has won more than 70% of the games they reported to fargorate. Of course there are more but I only looked at a relative handful.

What does this mean? I don't know but I found it interesting. But I'm a numbers guy.

I honestly don't understand why hiding your matches from the public is even an option. I think more people would share them but aren't even aware it's a setting.
 
The only way to share is to 1) pay for the app. 2) turn on the share option. The share option is not available in the free version. One caveat to this is if you are part of a BCAPL (or a 3rd party league that uses the BCAPL app), the yearly dues pays for the FargoRate app.

To answer your question, I think it's because players usually stay in their own wheelhouse of competition. During the IPT days, we had super good stats. Busty had the highest win percentage and I believe it was about 60% from memory.
 
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