Inspired by this questionthis question I wanted to find out which metrics within World of Tanks are a better measure of performance than the global win rate when comparing tanks of different nations?
In my opinion using global win rate, or win rate at all, is a highly flawed measure of a tanks balance against other tanks. When comparing like for like, such as tier V heavy tanks, opinions seem to be split by which tank each person prefers rather than any objective measure or weighting system.
Measuring by win rate ignores many of the factors that go into making up the win rate such as the composition and quality of the players playing a particular tank, class, or nation. It also doesn't factor in the difference between high tier and low tier battles as some nations, like France appear to be balanced between high and low tiers. i.e. Because the French low tiers are so awful they appear to be balanced by making the high tiers much better.