Quote Originally Posted by Melichoir View Post
I would hazard that making it opt in by choice would actually break algorithms and skew the ranking system on FFLOGS. For things like the logs to work (or any data driven thing to work), the more data you put into it, the better typically.
Thing is you could have literally all the data the only thing you'd need to omit is a players name if they hadn't opted in. Absolutely everything else relating to that parse could stay.

While removing names may skew the rankings for others that wouldn't really matter. As generally it's just mean players were ranked against other ranked players..

As it is. Rankings are skewed because a lot of the people being ranked aren't actually competing for want of a better word. It's like beating the car next to you to the next set of lights when the driver of the car next to you isn't even aware your racing him.