I think the TG trainer stats are great and very useful, and I have been leaning more towards the "figure based" stats. If the sample is big enough, the trainers that get 30% new tops in a relevant category are definitely worth noting (this comes up about one or two out of every ten races). There are ocassions that the standard trainer stats are useful too -- again, for me the trick is not getting sucked into good stats with smaller samples.

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