For the ones that have hog dogs

Good post. Responses (or lack of responses) should be interesting.
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I do NOT own a Top Shelf All Around Hog Dog. I catch 15 to 20 hogs a year (shoats not included) on about 25 hunts a year .
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I work between 50 and 60 hours a week and only get to hunt weekends outside of deer season and the occasional weekday when I can slip off work. I primarily walk hunt within 3 hours of the DFW Metroplex. We run a solid loose bay strike dog, a couple of gritty/catchy help dogs, and a solid catch dog. None of them are superstars by any means.
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When I get the occasional opportunity to drive wheat/crop fields, the gritty help dogs do pretty good. Nothing like a top shelf RCD type dog would. I don't even cut our loose bay find dog out in these situations. We definitely catch more hogs this way.
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We can find them in sign as good as any body. We don't have the ability, grit, athleticism in our pack to catch a real deal running hog. Our loose bay find dog has the bottom to stick with them. Our help dogs do not. The loose bay find dog does not have the grit to make a hog stop if it breaks. We get outclassed from time to time due to these deficiencies. All the spring rain we had created a lot of tall grass and ground cover this year. It has been tough to get them caught this summer.
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Put us in good sign with unspoiled hogs, our dogs look better than they are.
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I have hunted hard in years past and put hands on 100+ hogs easy in a year. Not all with my dogs.
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In my opinion, if you get hogs caught 7 out of 10 times that you start em, you have a top shelf DOG or PACK. I also believe a man will catch more hogs with a solid PACK than they will with a top shelf solo dog. Rough dogs catch more hogs than loose dogs in my opinion. Loose dogs do it with better style, tend to be better in scarce sign, and take less damage doing it in my opinion.
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How many times does the dog or dogs finish what they start? How effective are they when they get their opportunities? These are the only objective ways to evaluate any dog or dogs. A dog might be a superstar in crop fields and be terrible walk hunting in timber. Let the style/situation debate continue.