I'm gonna have to spend the next 8 hours in the shower after posting this.... but....
The top 10 individuals of hauling ability on this world I'd put Will, Nauz, CF and Tedd in it... I'd say top 4 but I'm guessing there are some people I don't know who have skills... hauling ability is not just about efficient farming, it's also about building an account that enables hauling... i.e I might be able to farm more efficiently with 100 LC than any other players that ever wiggled a mouse in a farming motion but it's meaningless when the next guy has 1000 LC...
Efficiently becomes less important as the world progresses... shear number of LC can take over... looking at Yin Tar and noobs account ODA, logically one has lost far more LC than the other, logically one should have far more LC than the other... so the account that has begged, borrowed and promised their way to most of their villages should win LOTD, should be embarrassed by their ODA and embarrassed that they have to shout so loud to get anyone to think they can wiggle a mouse well...
So in summary... wining lotd doens't prove the best farmer at this stage of the world... though arguably it proves the account that has nobled more efficiently... with a lower loss of troops... love or hate the way noobs has nobled... the efficiency of it can't be argued against...
Even the great Nauz would send restart mails to improve both farming and growth... .