Could someone explain net stats to me? Where do you go to see more and how are the figures determined? I'm puzzled as to how I could go from a rating of 37 at 45K earned and drop to a rating of 168 50K later? and all in one morning! Somebody was doing a whole lotta making money.

The stats are really not reliable at this point. There is a thread that discusses various facets of this problem, along with Arthur's explanation. You might find that thread helpful.

They are even a bit less reliable that usual right now as our database is overloaded with enthusiastic Fish Tycoons, and we are going to have to change to a bigger server/host. Things may get a little bumpy before it gets better on the fish statistics front.

Today I'm getting the message that my stats were unable to be updated and told me to check my connection to the internet. However i obviously have one since I am writing this. Are they down again today (Saturday) ?