I understand that there are many players, just how many I do not know because as far as I know there is no master player list. I have been challenged and accepted challenges from players that I accept on good faith of course. They sometimes decimate me against overwhelming odds no matter how I persist knowing that the outcome will swing but guess what? It doesn't. OK so I resign after being supernaturally destroyed and I return to the table and my opponent has disappeared. Wa La!!!  Never to be encountered again. 
I have started to keep a list of phantoms and I can't help but wonder why there is no master player list and exactly what your employee priveledges are?
My wife says I'm being handicapped....