does anyone use sharkscope....or even the officalpokerrankings.com websit?

yes, think of it this way, some guy spent 25 bucks a week in 1.00 sit n go's for a month and only placed in the money say 5 times at 3rd place. then he goes and buys a book, gets better, and starts winning his bankroll back.

Now say for the last 2 weeks he started win those 1.00 and 2.00 sng's and he is at -45 roi so he is starting to get better and places high in a 44 ppl tourny =)

i used to use SS until i became focused on increasing my ROI in every level (you know how you can see the graph of ROI spread across each limit) which just led to frustration with some of the poorer games, so i blocked my name so i would stop looking at it. as for OPR, MTTs have never been my strength, i like 1-table and HU SNGs, so it opened my eyes to how terrible i had been at MTTs.

The thundering hoards of new, NL holdem players are mostly in the red.