Stat padding
Encyclopedia
The term Stat padding is commonly used in sports to describe an action that improves a player's statistics
despite being of little benefit to his or her team or its chance of winning. An example would be a basketball
player scoring a large number of points in the fourth quarter of a game in which his team was already leading by a large margin.
Stat padding is also noticeable in online computer games
. A group of players might perform a series of actions which generally require little skill in order to raise a player's statistics. For example, in first person shooters, two or more players might join different teams and constantly kill one another, usually followed by a heal, revive, or respawn. Actions such as these are usually done on password-protected or empty game server
s. An example of this in the popular online computer game Battlefield 2
would be when three players collude, one as a medic, another from the other team as a killer, and the another person from the medic's team, called the "dummy," to be the victim. The killer shoots the dummy, and the medic then heals or revives his teammate. The killer shoots the dummy again and the process continues. It is also possible to stat pad by doing objectives or actions in empty server, or by co-operating with different team player.
Statistics
Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments....
despite being of little benefit to his or her team or its chance of winning. An example would be a basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
player scoring a large number of points in the fourth quarter of a game in which his team was already leading by a large margin.
Stat padding is also noticeable in online computer games
Online game
An online game is a game played over some form of computer network. This almost always means the Internet or equivalent technology, but games have always used whatever technology was current: modems before the Internet, and hard wired terminals before modems...
. A group of players might perform a series of actions which generally require little skill in order to raise a player's statistics. For example, in first person shooters, two or more players might join different teams and constantly kill one another, usually followed by a heal, revive, or respawn. Actions such as these are usually done on password-protected or empty game server
Game server
A game server is a remotely or locally run server used by game clients to play multiplayer video games. Most video games played over the Internet operate via a connection to a game server...
s. An example of this in the popular online computer game Battlefield 2
Battlefield 2
Battlefield 2 is a computer game by the Swedish developer Digital Illusions CE . During development, Trauma Studios contributed to the development of the game after it was acquired by DICE...
would be when three players collude, one as a medic, another from the other team as a killer, and the another person from the medic's team, called the "dummy," to be the victim. The killer shoots the dummy, and the medic then heals or revives his teammate. The killer shoots the dummy again and the process continues. It is also possible to stat pad by doing objectives or actions in empty server, or by co-operating with different team player.