Monthly Stats resets?

[Tarrock]

I miss the old days when they were reset every 1-2 months.
Played today for the first time since summer, and still at like rank 111.

[Bakuryu]

"A really interesting new stat is the Kills per minute. It's interesting to see that some people, even though they regularly have a 3-1, 4-1, sometimes even 6-1 Kill/Death ratio, have much lower Kills per minute."

Unless they are playing medic, engineer, or spy. The kills per minute goes WAYYYY down.

[Plinko]

That's true of KPD, too though, I know since I play Medic about 1/3-1/2 the time my KPM and KPD will always be in the tank. When you're a medic you've just got to rely on assists, ubercharges and the general sense of smugness that the team couldn't get out of their own spawn if it wasn't for you.

I hope they code in KPM and KPD by class someday, that would be pretty interesting to look at to compare how you really fare in each.

[Shifty]

[quote="Bakuryu";p="140022"]Unless they are playing medic, engineer, or spy. The kills per minute goes WAYYYY down. [/quote]

Yes I know, I wouldn't even think about comparing the K/D ratio of someone I know plays medic or spy at all to someone like me, who plays demoman or sniper most of the time. I'd only look at it to compare myself to someone I know plays Soldier something regularly.

[Mo Ron]

I don't like the stat reset. For me it's a goal. I like having something to shoot for and watch my progression on. Even if you feel like you can't crack the top 10 or 20, there are still other goals. In October I was gunning for top 100. Then it was 100k points which put me around rank 50. Now in the 20s all the names around me are people I recognize from the servers and it's fun just trying to catch up with them.

The points by themselves have nothing to do with skill. Points just represent an accumulation of accomplishments. Points / time played is a much better reading but still not great. If you compare your time played against the people ranked closest to you, you'll get a better reading on how you are skill wise. But still very far from accurate because that doesn't take into account class differences.

[Dog]

[quote="Tarrock";p="139955"]I miss the old days when they were reset every 1-2 months.
Played today for the first time since summer, and still at like rank 111.[/quote]

That lasted from September through to December when my wife's computer couldn't hack it any more.
We bought stats from HLStatsX in January and they run a pretty good service.

[El_Hefe]

[quote="Mo Ron";p="140157"]I don't like the stat reset. For me it's a goal. I like having something to shoot for and watch my progression on. Even if you feel like you can't crack the top 10 or 20, there are still other goals. In October I was gunning for top 100. Then it was 100k points which put me around rank 50. Now in the 20s all the names around me are people I recognize from the servers and it's fun just trying to catch up with them.

The points by themselves have nothing to do with skill. Points just represent an accumulation of accomplishments. Points / time played is a much better reading but still not great. If you compare your time played against the people ranked closest to you, you'll get a better reading on how you are skill wise. But still very far from accurate because that doesn't take into account class differences.[/quote]

spot on!!!