So, what is important then? well, your ability to do well in battle regardless of the win or the loss, especially in the loss. You see, doing well on a loss requires more skill than doing so on a win, why? because the odds were stacked against you, but you still did well. What else also makes W/R such a miserable skill meter is how easy it is to manipulate it by running lots of plats, CW’s, team battles, and company battles. Therefore, measuring other stats that cannot be influenced by the presence (or lack thereof) of other players must be used instead if you want to have a truly unbiased system fort measuring skill. All variables from other sources other than that which you are trying to measure must be eliminated, or the results of what you are trying to measure will be influenced by the other sources, thereby preventing an accurate measurement.

Skill is not the ability to win, it is the ability to do well even when you do not, as losing is inevitable.

That 72%er did maybe 200 HP of damage throughout the match, therefore he sucks, IF he had killed 7 tanks, and done thousands of hit points of damage before dying, I would have said that he was pretty good, but he did not, and so he sucks.

You are probably right that such a great player could have never lost except in the most dire situations, yep, as long as you have a 72% W/R suiscouting in a tier VIII medium tank that happens to not be all that fast, is certainly a valid tactic that will allow you to win all the time because you are just that good, except when you die, horribly, seconds into the match. Yeah, he was just that bad.

So do not expect WG to balance a map that is a ‘camping’ map because they do not see any statistics that show any map to be a camping heavy map because the RU server will balance out the US/EU statistics by rushing on every single camping map.

apparently ctrl+c doesn’t work on sigs? Duly noted….I meant this:
– SerB on new rating: “Real men use only two things to measure player quality (and one of them is winrate)” and “I don’t know (why we made the rating) but I don’t care”

Win rate is not a skill indicator, but rather an indicator of how well CW guys play follow the leader. They win in CW all the time, and what wins in clan wars comes down to is how well you are able to do what the guy in charge is telling you to do.

Otherwise, when they get in random matches, they don’t know what to do, so they try doing all the things that only work in CW’s (since that’s all they know), and then they try to blame the “stupid pubbies” for their resulting death. We are pubbies, but we’re not stupid. 72% CW guys on the other hand… well, apparently, they are.