Ranking usually correlates with how actively an agent maintains their profile, review count and paid tier, not with closed sales, list-to-sale ratio or client outcomes in a specific city. An agent who ranks near the top of a national directory site may have done zero recent transactions in Saskatoon specifically, since the list is not filtered that precisely.
A useful substitute is asking the agent directly for their most recent 12 sales in Saskatoon, in your price range, rather than relying on a directory's internal ranking to do that filtering for you. That gives you a verifiable, local answer these lists are not built to provide.
A directory ranking measures visibility on that specific website, not performance in the Saskatoon market, so treat it as a lead source to verify, not a credential on its own. Get your hand-reviewed valuation from Joel Dyck.