According to a lot of the kids on here...if you don't have a K/D of 3 or higher...you aren't pr0.

Or as they really say "Your garbage."

Notice the bad spelling...first place in call of duty, last place in life.

It's not really a question about the actual stat of K/D ratio, it's more about not giving the other team too many kills.

If you go 12-17 you might think oh at least I got 12 kills but the way it should be looked at is you gave the opposite team 5.

In objective modes it may look like it doesn't matter too much but those five deaths could give someone a killstreak.

If you don't give anything away you shouldn't worry about the actual stat, obviously someone has to go negative so to speak but you at least want it to be someone on the other team.

Your right about not being able to go negative but i though in hardcore if you killed your teammates they subtract a kill which could then give you negative kills ( before the update )

I look at the K/D spread in a game as well as the K/D ratio. K/D spread is old school and Halo style. It is really useful when comparing a game by game scenario and so long as they have a positive K/D spread I know someone did alright (theoretically but not always the case in objective style games). The K/D ratio was really born when someone said, "Hey I wanna compare how I match up against another person?" So instead of comparing K/D spreads which can be enormously different depending on how many matches have been played, they decided to compare the Kills & Deaths by using a ratio which then becomes a universal factor not dependant on figures such as games played.

A better stat perhaps however is one that is not generally used. By using the Kills, Deaths & Matches played, we can determine the average K/D spread of a player which can be used as a universal figure which could be better used to compare against someone when comparing killing usefulness. The formula is as follows.

(Kills - Deaths)

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Games Played

So thats Total Kills Minus Total Deaths all divided by Total games played.

This way a player that went 10-1 is seen just as valuable as a player that went 12-3

These players both have a K/D spread of +9 but the K/D Ratios are quite different (10 & 4).

I think they should add this stat, especially to TDM leaderboards, to more accurately compare people

Nice rational logic there. Something that most people here can not seem to understand or acomplish most of the time.

It varies from game mode to game mode. If I'm playing TDM I don't want people on my team that are going 10-20. Thats almost a third of a whole teams deaths that I have to make up for. If I'm playing Domination I don't care if you go 10-20 as long as you're willing to jump on a flag with me when necessary. If you're going to go 10-20 and not play the objective then there's a problem. It's the same problem as someone going 20-10 and not playing the objective. K/D means nothing in objective games. Yes, it helps but I would much rather have a 10-20 player that plays the objective than a 20-10 player who doesn't.