I don't know if they're fake players but there's definitely some fuckery going on with those numbers.
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The #1 guy (love that he has a picture of himself as his avatar) has 4 wrestlers with a talent level of 2,147,483,647 each, despite being lower-rarity. What's the significance of 2,147,483,647? It's the largest number a 32-bit integer can be, and is used in this game as the highest talent level for a wrestler. "Talent level" is just used a summation of how high all their skills have been leveled, and generally goes up when a wrestler improves its rarity level too. Rarity goes 1-star bronze, 1-star silver, 1-star gold, then 2-star bronze, etc etc, and the highest level in the game at the moment is 5-star gold. DownFromTheRafters highest talent level for anyone is 22,787 for his 5-star gold Triple H, then 21,200 for his IMMORTAL Hulk Hogan. Everything past that is 5-star silver or lower.
#'s 2 - 7 on that list all have one wrestler at an impossiblle 2,147,483,647 for a single wrestler, which puts their talent level slightly above the 2,147,483,647 range. So these 7 are all hackers or somehow have glitched talent levels, and the fact that Scopely puts this on display on their website is a testament to how incompetent they are.
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#8 is fake too, he has talent levels in the 80k point range for 4-star gold wrestlers which shouldn't be possible if 5-star golds have ~22-25k.
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#9 looks like the first legit player, with a total talent level of 4,792,966 and no glitched numbers in his top 5. His top 5 are all minimum 5-star gold, unlike DSP who only has two of them at 5G. His individual talent levels are higher too, with three of them at 25,146, compared to the 22,787 that DSP has for his top character. Even more insane is that he has 349 characters, while DownFromTheRafters "only" has 323! So DSP doesn't even have every character in the game!
I'm not going to sperg out past that but this is an indicator that as much time and money as Phil has spent on the game, there's whales that have spent EVEN MORE. Still, if you take out the top 8 hackers/cheaters/glitchers from that leaderboard, that means Phil is in the top 20 at #17.