OD is overrated, points are over rated, "elite" tribes are over rated, everything in this game is over rated. But still we have to have some way to measure who's better then who.
To be perfectly honest, the game just really isn't all the complex. Yes there are strategies, and some players are better then others, but usually it comes down to activity.
Give em 2 somewhat equally knowledgeable and "skilled" players and the more active of the 2 will win just about every time. The rest of the times, it's a combination between luck and who was aggressive first.
It cracks me up when people talk about how skilled a player is in a game that quite frankly doesn't need a huge amount of skill to do very well.
Thing is about this game, the "winner" is usually just a matter of who decided to stick around and stay active the longest. Quite often, it's not the most "skilled" players.