gamecock44: Okay...I'll assume that you're taking the position that licensing reflects a minimum level of competency versus an absolute indication of competency and now you want to discuss "win rate" as a metric.
I think we both agree that "win rate" as a single entity number is only one indicator of competency -- that there are other factors that should be taken into account.
Let's imagine that there are two lawyers: lawyer A who wins 90% of her cases and lawyer B who wins 10%. However, lawyer B believes that she is a better lawyer because lawyer A always chooses a better jury while lawyer B chooses any jury pool but in her opinion argues a better case.
I'm still going with lawyer A.
Now...let's take this to youth soccer. I've long advocated that since I'm the parent of an individual child, that a coach's (or club's) winning record is actually secondary to helping my child achieve her ambitions. Part of that ambition of course is team related (e.g., let's win nationals!); another part is strictly individual (I want to make the state ODP team, I want to make the region pool, I want to make the national pool, I want to play in college, etc.)
And complicating this further is that I don't care how good the coach is if the players around my child aren't going to help my child achieve her individual dreams, or if the club can't get the team into tournaments my child wants to get into, or if the club can't help my child get attention from college coaches, and so on.
Thus, I believe that a coach's (and club's) win rate is only one metric -- that other very important metrics are ODP players, region players, national players, outside honors, college signees, and so on.
Bottom line: I like competition and clubs competing with each other; however, I personally care about how well their teams and in particular how well kids do in the club as a basis for inter-club competition.
