I almost (Legion jumped in ) smashed a rank 223 to pieces a few days ago. Since then I have had rank 175's on my BT. I'm only rank 99 at the moment. Was 40 about 5 days ago but I've been power completing the Kronyn chain (I want 17X MR Research Colossal Plasmas ) SO I'm assuming it has something to do with your battle history, if any. Just stick to low rank players and you should be good.

well, i very rarely see somebody who is my rank or higher... and if i see usually those guys have hit Firewall
i have low end of my badge range mainly on my BT... maybe its because of my fighting config ( scan is next to 0 at that point)