On the other hand Acht, if top players (who know their CoH2) play OKW the most, it might send a message either way. Pros often play several factions, but they also play to win.
Not saying it invalidates your argument. Just food for thought.
I do feel that, when played optimally, OKW is probably the best faction. They have such amazing units and few glaring weaknesses.
Just a way to show you how to manipulate statistics:
In my opinion the first top 10 players are showing the best state of balance, since
- small playerbase
- a rather homogenous pool with players sharing same ranks on every faction !!!
- high activity of games on this level, because if you don't play you automatically lose your ranks quick in the top 10
So then we come to this numbers:
US .841
OKW .799
SOV .773
OST .747
But those numbers, although they are more solid than this 200 ranks, are never, never solid enough to make a statement based upon those, because you have still players that either play exclusively a faction (like PanzergrenadierAngreifen) or People which numbers you can't use because they are statistical outliers (like Zorro OKW 7. with 13/0 )
Another important thing you have to consider that players play in different time zones. If a really skilled player lives in e.g. New Zealand, he faces usually less players and thus a lower chance to get a skilled opponent.
By this he will accumulate a high numbers of wins, yet if he'd be living in Europe or the USA, his winning rate would be lower, thus resulting in a manipulation if you want to use these numbers to state a valid argument about balance.
That means, unless we have all the numbers (which relic won't give), all we can do is speculate and bullshit around. Everybody has a different view and character about what balance is when he faces a loss.