An even easier summary: Are stats everything ? No. They do have meaning to an extent though. Regardless. People are going to see either high numbers or low numbers and base their judgements off of those numbers of another player. It's gonna happen. People do that with everything in life unfortunately. Numbers are the only way to assume how well or not well someone plays before you actually decide to play with them. There's not really any other factor to base your judgments off of. I'm sorry, but if I'm ever playing ToO and want to look for two other players that do well, I'm gonna look at their stats. That's just how I do things, I know it pisses a lot of people off. Certain people have certain requirements. Simple as that.