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Killboards and Killboard Theory
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Vera Algaert
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#21 - 2012-05-16 06:19:58 UTC  |  Edited by: Vera Algaert
Greyscale Dash wrote:
What people think killboards do:

Measure how good someone is at pvp by comparing the amount of things they've killed to amount of things they've lost.

What killboards actually do:

Measure how often someone has aggressed someone that died shortly after compared to how often they have died to another player.

In other words, killboards don't contain any meaningful information about how good someone is at pvp. In fact I will go so far as to say that people with high killboard efficiencies are far more risk averse than those with low efficiencies.

killboards make a lot of sense if they reflect the whole fleet.

If you fly solo, a killboard that shows just your kills & losses is informative.
if you fly as a corp, a corp killboard makes sense,
if you fly in alliance/coalition fleets, a corp killboard is not useful for judging your performance - it will have (nearly) all your fleet's kills but only a fraction of the losses.

For "killboard efficiency" to have any meaning in 0.0 one usually has to look at coalition-level data as few pilots only fly solo or in corp fleets.

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