Skill is often irrelevant if you can ' t turn it into de facto results . It ' s all hypothetical projection otherwise . Being the best team and losing to ' luck ' is not an excuse . You lost because you played worse than your expected level , simple as . You are not the best team if you lose 5 tourneys in a row , because the best teams don ' t do that . To be a top team you have to have consistency in results . That ' s the reasoning behind a resultbased ranking system . <| sep |> I ' m sure it probably does to you but it ' s still true . Look up Fabian Socialism and get educated on the subject . If you ' re open minded to it , it might start to make a lot of sense when it starts describing perfectly , the world you live in .