Balance issue. What's the perfect equation?

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#1

Recently I’ve been struggling on finding the perfect equation for a rating to give a person based off of their kills and deaths.

At first it seemed fairly simple for me, just use KDR and then give them an A through F based on their KDR, but got stuck when I realized a person with just 5 kills and only 1 death gave them the same score of someone with 50 kills and 10 deaths. Clearly, a person with 50 kills would get a better rating than the person with 5 kills, despite them having the same KDR.

Here’s the script I created. The ratings table could have been optimized more but I’m too lazy to create something for that -_-

Does anyone know an optimal equation?

#2

You probably can multiply by another factor of %total kills of the team

So 50/(50+5) for the top scorer

And 5 / (50+5) for the person with only 5 kills

This will be multiplied with the k/d which will create a difference in score values based on total kills.

It’s not perfect, but I believe it’s a start.

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#3

I don’t know how well this method will play out because I’m not grading them based off of their place on the team, just based off of how well they did.

#4

You could add number of kills * a factor to the score

For 50 kills/10 deaths

50/10 = (5 kdr * x) + (50 kills * y)

You could also do k - d + kdr

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#5

What do you mean by the 50/10 here?

#6

Oops, that’s supposed to be kills/deaths

#7

Would it be better to multiply the kills to deaths ratio by a difference of the two.

(5 / 1) * (5 - 1) = 5 * 4 = 20
(50 / 10) * (50 - 10) = 5 * 40 = 200

Getting ten times the kills and deaths will result in a score ten times greater.

(6 / 2) * (6 - 2) = 12
(12 / 4) * (12 - 4) = 24

Linear progression according to the number of kills and deaths. Having more deaths than kills will also produce negative scores.