A parallel can be made with some team sports. If anyone follows college football here, you'll know what I'm talking about. Every year some XYZ University will finish undefeated and fans will try and stake a claim to being #1. Unfortunately, some of these teams fatten up on totally inferior competition, sometimes driven by the conference they're in. If you spend your entire season beating up on the North Dakota Universities of the world, your zero actually doesn't mean much.