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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Magooch" data-source="post: 1078136" data-attributes="member: 17987">Anyways, as I tend to ramble, to distill that all down into a more succinct point:There is nothing wrong with considering the level of opposition you're facing. IMO, the problem is when the "level of opposition" is used to write off a bad performance or to take the focus off of your own level of play. Maybe I am misinterpreting the situation(s) but it seems like in the aftermath of some of these games, we are viewing the opponent as having had greater influence on the outcome of the match than our team. That is what I take issue with. In any given match we can quibble over how strong (or not) the opponent is, and how well (or not) we played. The discrepancy is over which one had a greater impact on the outcome. And it *seems* like in some of these cases the strength of our opponent is seen as the dominant factor in the final result of these games. Personally, I think our own play is/has been a far greater factor than the play/level of our opponent. That's pretty much the gist of it.</blockquote>

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