Quote Originally Posted by Yandere-chan View Post
Yes, that is how statistics work, unless you are throwing accuracy out the window. Anonymous unregulated logs with no control does not equate to reliable test data for class adjustments, not even to a remotely reliable extent. It is not a matter of sample size when the fundamental system is flawed. Any person at any time could purposely upload 100's of extremely poor logs of say, Dragoon, and drastically shift the avg. It's insanity to think a full average of logs from such a system acts as a basis for reliable class assessment. But no one even needs to do this. There can just naturally be a happenstance of an unproportionate size of terrible logs for various roles of those who choose to upload. Massing together averages from all logs from FFlogs will never be a reliable source for objective data on where classes compare against one another. To think otherwise is willful ignorance and a credence to the saying of there being lies, strong lies, and then statistics.

Even if you were going to use FFlogs to try to get an idea of where classes compare against one another, you'd need to spend a long time curating the logs selected, which probably shouldn't be done by just one person (or by a group of like-minded people) anyways due to the concern of personal (or group) bias affecting judgement during the curation process. Honestly though, you'd end up with a far more accurate result if you planned a test from the ground up as described in my original post. What was presented, however, was ignorant at best, lazy at worse, and purposely misleading at worst.
... except they won't shift the average when Dragoon has over ten thousand uploads. A few hundred is throwing a water in a river. It would take several thousand to even move the needle, which is so ridiculously improbable it isn't worth discussing. What you're positing would require a massive coordinated effort to intentionally sabotage logs. Such an endeavor would be very easily noticeable and dealt with long before it did any damage. Put simply, the scenario you're describing just isn't going to happen. Now that doesn't make FFlogs the end all be all, but dismissing it outright or even implying the numbers aren't a decent estimate is just plain ignorance.