Titan score decreasing

My frustration now is trying to figure out how the Titan Score correlates to Titan strengths. My Alliance has been doing planned escapes (letting about every 5th Titan go), thinking that by doing negligible damage on the escapes we can keep our Titan Score down, thereby increasing our winning% for PoV. However, it appears the Titan *'s may not be connected to Titan Score at all, as our decreased score doesn’t seem to diminish the Titan strengths any more than if we had gone ahead and done 90%+ damage on the escaped Titans.

It’s very confusing and frustrating… I mean, what’s the point of having a Titan Score (and figuring out its calculation) if it has no bearing on what Titans you face? And does anyone know any strategies for increasing Titan winning%, since maximizing score decay on escapes doesn’t seem to accomplish anything?