Thursday's Notes and Links

Pablito Neal is nearing the 1.00 K/D ratio. He is currently at .98 and climbing. Pablito has made it his goal to reach this mark by the end of the weekend. For him to do it he would have to go +54 over the next 4 nights, or about +14 kills each night. I think he can do it and we should all cheer him on... Go Pablito!

I, however, seem to be on the opposite track. Last night was by far my worst night of play since Halo 3 came out. I should have quite after the first few games. Although throughout the night, the teams I played on had a record of 11 wins and 6 losses. I posted a absolutely terrible -42 Kills to Deaths. I averaged 11.5 kills, 6 assists and a terrible, 13.25 deaths. I apologize to all of the KofC members I played with last night, but most specifically Tilla and Loco, for my -21 in the two games I played with them.

The most interesting game of the night had to be our loss to some dbags on Snowbound. We lost 50 - 38 on Team BRs. You can check out the game here. The fact that we lost isn't there interesting point, it's the fact that we had 38 kills as a team and 38 assists as a team. 100% of all the kills we had were assisted. The chances of that happening on a map with a shot gun, a sniper rifle, a laser and a ghost seem incredibly small but some how we did it. No one had less than 6 assists and I, somehow acquired 17. Earlier in the night Squatting Bear had 16 on a Team BR Isolation game.

Speaking of SB, he had some good games last night, which might explain why he wanted me to enter all the stats from last night into the new (and possibly almost done) formula. I am working on getting it all finalized, but Pablito isn't on Google Chat. I think he called in sick and is cuddling with his kitten while watching Oprah right now.

You know all those people on Live that say they are going to totally kill you in real life.? Well they might be getting a call from the police in the future. Some douche in Maryland, Allieu Shaw, has been charged with two misdemeanor counts of disrupting a school operation. He was making threats over XBL about shooting up a school while playing COD4. He faces a maximum penalty of one year in jail and/or a fine of up to $5,000... sucker.

Mini Link-O-Rama:
If anyone is in the market for a huge, yet, sweet computer, check this one out.

Squatting Bear get these rims for you car... now.

For the other guys who are rotting at work with nothing to do except imagining customizing Foundry in forge, Bungie was thinking of you. You can download this pdf and draw your changes so as not to forget them when you go home tonight.

I think we should find a bar where we could host an event like this. How sweet would it be to play rockband with lights on stage through the sound system. We just have to make up a charity.

There's a sweet Halo pic on the BBC website and a good corresponding article. w00t!

If anyone has played BioShock, this will be awfully impressive. And you can buy it on ebay!

Someone found a love letter from Unky.

Congratulations Playboy!

Congrats goes to UnkyPlayboy (why no space?) on being the latest member to join the KofC ranks. No one seemed to oppose the new, supposedly charismatic young member so I can only assume we would like him in the clan. We just don't like his name, I guess. Since we really don't have the proper medium for a speech or anything, please say a few words of gratitude and thank whomever you wish in the comment section.

Not much is going on today in the world of KofC I don't think. So please get some good discussion going so I can pass the time until I go out drinking tonight.

Pablito's Useless Stats

I do a lot of looking through statistics on Bungie.net trying to figure out what, if anything, can be deduced from them. Here are my two most recent ventures. The first is each clan member's K/D ratio for the 6 most common weapons and the second is about assists and has some interesting results. Read on to find out...

KofC K/D by Weapon
Pablito Neal:
Melee = 1.15
AR = 0.69
BR = 1.20
Sniper = 0.64
Shotgun = 0.74
Frag Grenade = 1.57

The Daymonster:
Melee = 1.01
AR = 0.70
BR = 0.63
Sniper = 0.72
Shotgun = 1.86
Frag Grenade = 1.30

Squatting Bear:
Melee = 0.95
AR = 0.98
BR = 0.96
Sniper = 1.04
Shotgun = 0.93
Frag Grenade = 1.29

Josey Wales:
Melee = 0.91
AR = 0.58
BR = 1.59
Sniper = 1.64
Shotgun = 1.35
Frag Grenade = 1.31

DammerWillEatU:
Melee = 1.07
AR = 0.92
BR = 2.11
Sniper = 1.22
Shotgun = 0.76
Frag Grenade = 0.96

Tilla1234:
Melee = 1.05
AR = 0.98
BR = 2.60
Sniper = 1.26
Shotgun = 0.65
Frag Grenade = 1.30

Unky Warthog:
Melee = 0.93
AR = 0.72
BR = 1.56
Sniper = 0.75
Shotgun = 1.82
Frag Grenade = 1.40

Unky Eternal:
Melee = 0.86
AR = 0.80
BR = 2.12
Sniper = 1.00
Shotgun = 1.08
Frag Grenade = 1.05

LocoPollo:
Melee = 1.02
AR = 1.23
BR = 2.97
Sniper = 2.22
Shotgun = 1.47
Frag Grenade = 1.13

Adeclipse:
Melee = 1.04
AR = 1.26
BR = 2.94
Sniper = 2.04
Shotgun = 2.27
Frag Grenade = 1.30

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This can be added to the assist discussion. It is the percent of kills which were assisted in all of my Team Slayer matches.

4v4 Wins: 51.7%
4v4 Losses: 54.4%
3v3 Wins: 38.9%
3v3 Losses: 53.1%

Does this mean assists are important, in a bad way? This is from the team total, not just my kills/assists but it clearly shows that assists are more prevalent in our losses. I could use more games, the average sample size is about 20 but what conclusions can you other clan members draw from this?

Assists: Are They Important?

Daymonster and I (well pretty much Daymonster and everyone) have been arguing back and forth on the issue of how important assists are and whether or not they are a sign of better teamwork. Monster had a good point with his observation that assists would be more likely to come from a player's weapon choices. People who prefer being in a pack with BRs will likely produce more assists or someone with a sniper can pretty easily get one bodyshot and have a teammate who's nearer the opponent finish them off, while players who use the power weapons more (shotty, rocks, sword) will rarely get assists. This doesn't necessarily mean the player with the power weapons isn't being a team player, he could very well be protecting his teammates, who are zoomed in on long range targets with their sniper or BR, from opponents coming in at close range. And of course there's no recordable statistic for verbal assists which come from good communication. We can always improve on that.

Another assist disagreement came from what Daymonster and I thought counted as an assist, a difference that could've strongly influenced his belief that they weren't important. If a player lowers an enemy to the brink of death and a teammate comes and finishes the kill with point blank shotty blast, does the first player get an assist? Daymonster argued no since the shotgun would've killed the enemy in one shot anyway, whether or not his shields had been gone. I argued yes because I always assumed it was that way.

So last night we did an experiment in a custom game where me and Monster logged in and he had his second controller as a dummy player. We found the player and Daymonster lowered his shields while I finished him with a point blank mauler, point blank shotty, carbine headshot, hammer then sticky grenade. We ended the game and out of these 5 trials Monster was attributed with 4 assists.

Let's please continue to debate this issue and I'll get a poll up about it.

In other news, we had a request from a guy in Texas to join our clan. He complimented this blog and has really good stats, but most importantly he sounds like he'd fit in with us. Daymonster should be posting his Get To Know 'Em very soon and let's all try to play with him this weekend.