Noticed something interesting when I was looking at my stats for this tour.
You always hear folks complaining about how K/D isn't weighed heavily enough compared to K/T and what not. Or perhaps a better way of putting it would be that you reache the point of diminishing returns faster with the K/D category than with the others. I don't think that is particularly true, looking at my stats. Seems like me and most of the people I've checked are pretty much at the point of diminishing returns in every category.
For example- Steve is ranked number 1 this tour, Lazer is 2nd. I'm ranked 73rd as I this is posted.
I've broken it down by category to kind of emphasis what I'm getting at, with the rank "in category".
Steve: 13.79 K/D (13th) // 5.12 K/S (4th) // 9.9 K/H (157th) // Hit % 18.23% (51st). Overall total, not counting 'score' (points-wise): 224
Lazer: 4.85 K/D (104th) // 3.11 K/S (50th) // 15.12 K/H (28th) // Hit % 16.38 (81st). Overall total, not counting 'score': 263.
Me: 5.82 K/D (73rd) // 4.12 K/S (13th) // 11.16 K/H (90th) // Hit% 20.35 % (29th). Overall total, not counting 'score': 205.
I think it is hopefully easy to see what I'm taking about. I fall kind of in the middle of Steve and Lazer as far as stats go. If you compare the stats you can see that no matter what category you do extremely well in, it reaches a point where you are putting to much effort into one particular category for not as much return.
For instance, in K/D. Steve has a K/D of 13.79. Only 12 people have a better K/D. But going from 4.85 to 5.82 resulted in an increase of 31 "positions", and going from 5.82 to 13.79 only resulted in an increase of 60. It is considerable harder to go from 5.82 to 13.79, in my opinion. So I think me and Lazer are probably right about at the point of diminishing returns, where it would be significantly more bother than it is worth to try to get K/D up more.
In K/T- Lazer gets 15.12 kills per hour (that is fast folks). 28th overall, so it is at about the same extreme as Steve's K/D. Mine is significantly lower at ~11 K/H, but I'm not ranked that much lower than Lazer is in that category (again about 60 spots). This category is kind of iffy as far as the "point of diminishing returns", because Steve is only ranked about 60 spots behind me as well, and his K/T is closer to mine than mine is to Lazers.
K/S seems to be really easy to see the point of diminishing returns. Just compare the ranks- I'm doing really well in that category this month (probably because I hardly have any time to fly). Steve is at 5.12 K/S, rated 4th overall. I'm at 4 (a difference of 20%), and I'm rated 13th overall. Lazers back the same amount as me, at 3 K/S rated 50 overall. So there is only a difference of 50 spots between a K/S of 3 and a K/S of 5.
Accuracy seems to be the only category where a % change in it seems to result in a comparable jump on spots. About a 2% difference between the 3 of us, with a jump of about 20 spots per 2%.
So take heart, all of you virtual cherry-pickers, the people that take furballing to an extreme hit a "glass wall" in the scoring too.
