Humans seem to love rankings of things, the top ten beaches, restaurants, teams, QBs, traffic, wines, etc.
My thought is always that perfection is the enemy of good enough. I dislike rankings of most things. If I like a thing, it's good enough, I don't want to make some super effort to try Item 1 on someone's ranking. I see lists of Top 100 BBQ places in the US. How in the world can anyone really compile such a list anyway. Burfle and marketing.
The Top 100 wine list was the bane of my existence when I worked in the biz, along with Parker's ratings and Gold Medals from some fair or other. Marketing and burfle I say.
Mostly burfle.
And of course someone gets all upset that their team is ranked 28th in the AP poll in Week Two. SO WHAT??????!!!!!