Quote Originally Posted by Rongway View Post
This is not a fair comparison. The PotD standings show the top 100 for parties and the top 25 for solo. It does not show you who is 26 solo, or 100 solo, or 3,957,581. In terms of incentivizing play, it encourages, "I want to get into the top rankings." It does not allow, "Look, this loser is only in the top 53 percentile."
Top 53rd percentile means "Did better than 52% of the playerbase that has succeeded at this content." It's actually pretty decent because past that you start getting into padded DPS ranges.

Also FFLogs only shows the leaderboards for current content (ie, my Midas Savage is no longer ranked because Creator Savage is current (or if it is still ranked I can't find it >.>))

I believe the comparison stands because it *is* still a leaderboard, and it does not show the entire playerbase on it, just those who have cleared the content. To translate it a bit: "Look this loser is only number 12 lol"

The only way for your comparison to be reasonable would be if a parser only said who the top one DD was and gave you no information about the other seven members.
Wait...what do you think percentile means in this case? If I were to say, do A9S as Dragoon and only rank into the 32nd percentile, that's against all Dragoons that have done it, not against the group itself. Excluding the other seven members makes no difference to that.