Black Monks :
I don't think anyone looks at the top guilds pages anymore to see who the best guilds are. I believe most are now looking at the top 100 and which guilds show up there the most.
M-Dot :
You are better off letting your overall ranking fall. I've maxed out my fans so am not playing matches outside the gvg or championship. My ranking has fell from 80th to 1600th. Come January when you will start losing fans in these matches, I will be able to play the championship without using mb and not have to worry about losing fans, because every one around me the the rankings is so low I ban beat all of them easily and they don't stand a chance against me. For me individual ranking is not important, my guild being top is.
You are better off letting your overall ranking fall. I've maxed out my fans so am not playing matches outside the gvg or championship. My ranking has fell from 80th to 1600th. Come January when you will start losing fans in these matches, I will be able to play the championship without using mb and not have to worry about losing fans, because every one around me the the rankings is so low I ban beat all of them easily and they don't stand a chance against me. For me individual ranking is not important, my guild being top is.
I don't think anyone looks at the top guilds pages anymore to see who the best guilds are. I believe most are now looking at the top 100 and which guilds show up there the most.
To a point but I think once people start losing fans in "play a game" matches the guild ranking will come back into play. Currently you can lose all 5 matches with no fan lose. Imagine if you lost you five matches and lost 5 more when challenged, Ten thousand fans in one day is one hell of a hit. The best guilds will be the ones that can minimise their fan loses while keeping their individual players at a reasonable rank.
But again the top ten will most likely have bought their entire team or been gifted coins from out going team mates. For example 3 weeks ago I could regularly beat Chepstow. Our teams were about even. But I see today he has mainly all lvl 200 players and is sitting in 2nd place. So I'm guessing he's either dug deep into his pockets or Fish gifted him those players by repeatedly giving him coins. Fair play I would have done the same if I could, but it doesn't make him a great player. So in essence the rankings are interesting but not a definitive indicator of someone's skill.