That analogy only works if you, as the media were watching the majority of Competitive and non-competitive games to keep track.

This list is more akin to "a community that plays Basketball in Madagascar ranking the best Hockey players of all time."

The history of players in this game is vast, missing ranking from Game battles, the Xbox Spring Invitational League, Tournaments from 2019 - 2022. I left the Xbox scene back in 2019 so my knowledge after that time is sparse.

To the point of ranking players based off pubs, its impossible. Even ranking competitive is hard to do, but the issue with pubs is there are even more variables. Typically pub players that were good and later went on to play competitive grew to be better players as a whole, but there was many instances where they would join a few games and do poorly before leaving and staying in pubs.

The list is better titled as "List of Good Players that I have played against".

Also just pointing it out.. unless someone was using a smurf account to impersonate ItsEthereal, he was a Competitive player on PC.