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*Beating a big name player while they were practicing secondaries or outright sandbagging obviously doesn't have the gravitas that saying you have a win against them normally would. | *Beating a big name player while they were practicing secondaries or outright sandbagging obviously doesn't have the gravitas that saying you have a win against them normally would. | ||
*Saying you got a win on one of your region's best players sounds impressive, not so impressive however if it came with a 1-20 record against them, but of course these wins lists will leave out that it took you 20 losses to get that win. On the flipside, a 1-0 record ain't so impressive either, how many times has it been boasted that someone has a "winning record" against a top player but it turns out they only played in tournament once and fluked an upset in their one encounter? | *Saying you got a win on one of your region's best players sounds impressive, not so impressive however if it came with a 1-20 record against them, but of course these wins lists will leave out that it took you 20 losses to get that win. On the flipside, a 1-0 record ain't so impressive either, how many times has it been boasted that someone has a "winning record" against a top player but it turns out they only played in tournament once and fluked an upset in their one encounter? | ||
*With top and near top level players, wins lists just come off as a random assortment of globally ranked names, you could just make up a player with a list of made up top | *With top and near top level players, wins lists just come off as a random assortment of globally ranked names, you could just make up a player with a list of made up top 10 wins and it would sound just like most other such articles. With typical regional level players, wins lists will largely be a list of their region's PR'd players, with a few good OoR players and maybe one globally ranked player they upsetted before. | ||
At best, these wins lists are trivia that might make you go "huh, neat", and otherwise your eyes just glaze over reading this bloat that tells you meaningfully little of the player's accomplishments. Speaking of bloat, these wins lists have a tendency to go on way too long; we started the arbitrary "list no more than 8 wins" limit a couple years ago as a compromise to reign them in back when wins lists regularly stretched over a dozen players, but many people aren't aware of that and will just tack on more wins to a list that already has eight wins, leaving us with more work to clean it up or leaving the intro with a terribly bloated wins list that just turns off readers. | At best, these wins lists are trivia that might make you go "huh, neat", and otherwise your eyes just glaze over reading this bloat that tells you meaningfully little of the player's accomplishments. Speaking of bloat, these wins lists have a tendency to go on way too long; we started the arbitrary "list no more than 8 wins" limit a couple years ago as a compromise to reign them in back when wins lists regularly stretched over a dozen players, but many people aren't aware of that and will just tack on more wins to a list that already has eight wins, leaving us with more work to clean it up or leaving the intro with a terribly bloated wins list that just turns off readers. | ||
