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Old 01-28-19, 03:28 PM
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Originally Posted by ancker
You're still missing the point.

When we're talking about the elite WT Pros, they're _ALL_ in the top 1% (maybe less, top 0.5%). All of them.
So while the jump from 96% to 97% may be large, you're still pretty far from inking a WT Pro contract.
I don't think that's a valid point, because 1. the range of differences appears to be still increasing in that region and 2. the point (from OP) is that the common concept is also applied even to "merely strong racers". We are not talking about only the best of the elite.

The question is one of objective data. If there is some data that shows a diminishing of differences even in that top 0.5% or even a smaller range, I'd love to see it and would change my supposition in a heartbeat. But what we have here so far against is speculative without data. Show me data for those who have inked a WT Pro contract if you posit that the chart will look different in that range.
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