No there was precisely 1 shard that was formed day 1 of ships that was ridiculously overcompetitive.
The gp/ship stats of the people in the shard are meaningless. Of course they are all going to be super high because it is a day one shard. Some other shards may have more advanced ships in their rankings than this one shard but what they don't have is 5000 people nuts about ships.
This one/2 shards have 2500 people all nuts about fleet. Those 2 shards literally have more fights in a day than most do in 2 weeks. This is why CG/EA split the shard. It came to the devs attention how sickly overcompetitive this one shard was through their own tools. It's not the OP's whiny why me wrongness (like people usually assume in these situations), it's the truth.
You naysayers don't know what you are talking about, but it is also the OP's fault for bringing up irrelevant stats. The number of ship battles is the important part here.
