Ignoring the fact that the matched rankings seemed to get flipped upside down every 2 months (at least in f2p anyway, depends on who is slumping and only has their high levels left), a lot of the clans people are ranking highly, such as Fi and TLP, were both ******* awful at f2p matched until recently in Fi's case, or in TLP's case until about 18 months ago. No doubt TLP have probably been one of the best f2p matched clans in the last year or so, but they had no clue what they were doing before that lol.
f2p matched since clan wars first came out
1. EoP - Were known as the best f2p matched clan for a very long time until really the end of 2010 when suddenly 90% of pures were 100+ combat and since then we've never really been able to get back on top.
2. MM - We beat you in like 4 consecutive f2p preps over the last few years, mainly because you guys hardly ever did them and didn't seem to give a **** about them, but in 60v60+ preps you were always the clan to beat
3. CP - Never pulled enough to have big preps with anyone, but in 20v20/30v30 f2p preps, always saw them as one of the most difficult clans to war as those 20 or so people just f2p mini'd all day.
4. TLP - Been the best for the best part of 18 months, were really the first clan to become mostly 100+ f2p combat and we pretty much gave up on prepping you guys for quite a while until our levels improved. Woulda been ranked higher but you were pretty bad at f2p matched prior to late 2010.
5. FOE - One week you'd be good and the next week you'd be complete shite, i think it usually depended on whether your gmt or est people were there, but for most of the time i was HC, you were always the clan we tried to get preps with on Friday's because we knew you could pull and we knew we'd probably win.
P2P Matched:
1. TLP - Didn't lose a round for like 6 months or something, when you guys would start pulling well FOE would seem to beat you guys, but when you were around your normal ~40 or so pull, you seemed pretty unstoppable.
2. FOE - Could probably be #1, probably #1 at 50v50+ p2p fights, dunno.
C/H/IR/Dv/C/Fi/EoP/MM/DP/CPR all been at #3 at some stage, cbf working out who goes where.