KofC Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Stats

Here is a stats update for COD4.  We have all improved a lot.  

I've been especially impressed by Adeclipse.

Call of Duty 4 Stats Breakdown

Here are the updated stats.  
Most of our k:d ratios are getting better.  However, Dammer seems to be struggling.  Perhaps it is hard to concentrate with a guilty conscience.  

The State of The Knights of Cydonia Website

EDIT: This post was written before we were yelled at by the Knights of Columbus(tm). They wanted us to change our name, so obviously this won't make as much sense now that we are the Knights of Cydonia.

As I hope some of you have noticed, there is a counter on the right hand side where you can also subscribe to the blog. The counter has reached 12,761. It feels just like yesterday that the counter had reached a mere 1337.

I thought I would just update you guys on the state of the blog. Although the counter has reached over 12.5k visitors we only have had 6,346 unique visitors since started the blog in October of 2007.

Last month we had over 2,923 unique visitors and since we average about 50 unique visitors a day (30 returning, and 20 first timers), last month we saw a pretty substantial jump in visitorship.

Here is a world map of where some of the visitors. We seem to have a pretty big following in Europe and apparently someone floating on a raft in the Atlantic ocean directly on the equator.

Here is a map of the continental United States. Pay attention to the dots in Colorado and New Jersey, we seem to get a lot or returning visitors from there and they don't have any referring link (like a Google search or anything) that means they are typing in the address or have it bookmarked. Do we know these people? Why have they not put in for membership? I am sick of Adeclipse being the new guy. He bores me now.


How do these people find the Knights of Columbus? Most of them come from random Google searches and blog searches. Some find us through Google image searches and others, I honestly have no idea.

The one Bier Haus guy, most likely found us through some sort of internet search that gets sent to his email. That's all I could find out, that and he is from California and the email address was the same as the website he posted.

The number one search term that finds it's way to us on Google is "Unky Eternal" Don't get too excited Dave, it's only happed 4 times. The second most popular search is "Knights of Columbus Secret" which has happened 3 times in the last 500 searches.

Here are some other good ones:
Someone from Michigan was searching for "Gohtza Contingency Plan"
A person from Dublin Ireland was looking for the "Best Restaurant in Malta", Unky find this man.
Someone with moral ambiguity in Ontario, CA was searching for "Pinewood Derby Cheating Tips", I feel we have a moral obligation to go to the next Pinewood Derby competition in Ontario, CA and bring this scandal to light.
Someone searched on CNN.com for "Knights of Columbus Drunk"
A few people have been looking for a "Knights of Columbus Rock Band"

The best part about these are not just the searches that they are doing, but that our site looks relevant enough for them to click on it. Some of them make sense but why would anyone click on our blog looking for a Gohtza Contingency Plan?

We get a lot of hits from things like "COD4 patch", "COD4 maps", "COD4 Stat Finder." We also get a lot of Google image searches for Atlantis and watersides. Which makes sense because when I wrote those posts I had a hard time finding good pics on Google.

But my all time favorite for searches has to be some guy from the Ukraine looking for "Squatting COD4 Bear", now I am not sure what the was looking for exactly, but Squatting Bear do you remember some Ukrainian guy while playing that may or may not have become obsessed with you?

Keep an eye out SB, always watch your back.

Some KofC Statistics

I'd be lying if I said I was pleased with the clan participation on the site in the recent weeks. It's very selfish of you guys to not be checking/commenting every few minutes. So I had some free time since no one was on the blog and did a couple things.

New Maps Update: With the new maps less than a week away, bungie.net posted some more pictures of Rats Nest, Foundry and Standoff. Or you can check out this review by some dude at HBO, it's pretty good.

And after I looked at all the cool new pictures, I took a look at some of the stats just to see what was going on with KofC.

All of these stats are for Ranked games, obviously game type choices (Team Slayer, Team Objective, Doubles, etc.) might effect these stats but they are still interesting thing to look at.

First I just wanted to see what peoples favorite weapons are it is in order of who has played the most games. It is interesting and should be noted that everyones top 3 results in somewhere between 44% and 53% of their kills (except for Tilla at 59%).

Josey Wales: 416 Games
Sniper 16.80%
Melee: 13.99%
BR: 13.42%

Unky Warthog: 398 Games
Melee: 18.07%
AR: 17.05%
Shotgun: 12.86%

The Daymonster: 365 Games
Melee: 17.32%
Shotgun: 16.30%
AR: 12.20%

Squatting Bear: 336 Games
AR: 20.37%
Melee: 14.24%
Sniper: 11.12%

TILLA1234: 281 Games
BR: 28.50%
AR: 17.19%
Sniper: 13.33%

DammerWillEatU: 255 Games
BR: 23.33%
Melee: 15.14%
AR: 15.08%

Pablito Neal: 237 Games
Melee: 24.08%
AR: 13.29%
BR: 11.62%

LocoPollo: 205 Games
Sniper: 18.72%
BR: 16.99%
AR: 15.08%

Unky Eternal: 124 Games
BR 16.99%
AR: 15.40%
Melee: 14.97%

The Second thing I looked at was average kills per game and average deaths per game. This is a little different than the K/D ratio we are so used to looking at. And I think this might be an interesting stat to look at. It's not on the Bungie website so we have to do the math ourselves. I think there is a real opportunity here. I think we could be looking at the next Moneyball.

Here is the graph of the average deaths per game, sorted from fewest to the most. Loco, Tilla, Eternal and Pablito are all under 10 deaths/game. I think that is a good goal for us all.

This is a graph of the average kills per game.

I am trying to come up with some sort of formula that can put a number on ones impact on a team. And my main question is how import are deaths, assist and kills. Obviously you can't lose if you don't die, and you can't win if you don't get a kill (besides 0-0 ties of course). What do assists do? Just thinking out loud.

The state of KofC thus far

I felt like going through the Bungie.net stats and seeing where we are all at. I was expecting more variation in our stats. Essentially it's LocoPollo way out infront and then the rest of us.

Here are the stats.

Best KD Ratio in Ranked Games: LocoPollo (1.65)
Worst KD Ratio in Ranked Games: Squatting Bear (0.70)

Best KD Ratio in Social Games: LocoPollo (1.96)
Worst KD Ratio in Social Games: Squatting Bear (1.05)

Best KD ratio on any map: LocoPollo on VALHALLA (3.59)
Worst KD ratio on any map: Squatting Bear on ISOLATION (0.29)

FAVORITE WEAPONS (Ranked):
Josey Wales: Snipes (28% of all kills)
LocoPollo: Snipes (26% of all kills)
TILLA1234: Assault Rifle (23% of all kills)
Dammer: BR (22% of all kills)
Pablito Neal: Melee (27% of all kills)
Squatting Bear: Snipes (30% of all kills)
Daymonster: Shotgun (21% of all kills)