Do you realize how asinine what you're saying is...in your analogy the HC is the Captain, the Players are the Crew and the Program is the Ship.
Surrounded by a much more skilled crew, he still crashed the ship...period, the end, there is no getting around that.
Instead of looking at total number of top 50, why not list their named and look at the impact they actually had at ND. I know one of them was named Dayne Crist and he was pretty bad.