alanback: "Maybe if I were a better player I would care more "

You're ranked 4th of all the players with a decent number of games under their belt. You're not good enough yet? What hope the rest of us!! ;-))

WhiteTower: I like the wins/losses ratio as well but I only use it in conjunction with ratings and in situations where it has strong validity. In the VogClub tournaments, for instance, where all players get a wide variety of opponents who cannot be chosen, the ratio is indicative of strength amongst players within a given ratings range. Against the robots (strong, medium and poor) you need to know which robot the player prefers. But Grenv makes a good point when considering other players; it's hard to tell what the ratio means unless you keep track of who plays who. My ratio is 36:12 overall but against Walter it's 6:6.

I should point out that Vog maintains separate ratings and rankings for the three different ways of playing backgammon. It could be interesting for BrainKing to have players ratings and tournament ratings plus a combined rating and corresponding win/lose ratios.