No, that's only true for people who judge stats without having seen the performances. If anything, any other player having the season Cristiano had so far in terms of stats and performances, we'd be saying how those stats are flukeish and not at all representative of performance. In 2017, Cristiano had a great 10 minutes against barcelona in the supercup before being unfairly sent off, then scored twice against apoel in a game where he should have scored 5 with all the sitters he missed, Getafe(good, not great, missed an incredible sitter but still scored the winner in the end), Dortmund away(great), Sevilla(great), Gremio(very good), Spurs at home(good), Apoel away(very good, but it was Apoel). In every other game he was either average or poor. In 2018, he's been poor against Celta, outright cost us the game against villarreal, then was great against Depor, good against Valencia, poor against Levante, and great against Real Sociedad. That's 10 games were he's been better than average, in 28 appeareances this season. That's a poor season. But because he's Cristiano, and because by this point last season he hadn't been much better, yet by the end of the season he was rightfully the undisputed runaway Balon D'Or winner, he's not getting nearly as much heat as someone like Benzema. And it's actually fair for that to be the case