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[Blue Pheonix]

Hi everyone,

Please post your Pilot Skill rating (PSR) Tier level in addition to your Kill/Death Ratio (KDR) in the replies below.

I am trying to get to the bottom of how PSR is scored/rated/figured. I have learned to become a very good pilot with practice and time but I think I shot myself in the foot early on by "messin around" while learning the game just having fun (not really caring). I also tend to "suicide myself" by still engaging at the end of the match instead of going and hiding and powering down like I see some players do when there is no chance of winning. I am making a guess and saying this hurts my PSR because it hurts my KDR. I do this a lot before I thought this would affect my PSR as I didn't care. I still have fun now but am much more competitive and I would like to know how to improve.

Despite what others are saying (match score, damage etc. play into PSR), by me doing my own calculations and doing great now in stats most matches compared to the team (but still being Tier 5), I believe "PSR" is largely dependent on your KDR (with damage done and other factors as a sub category for factoring in). I could be wrong but it would be interesting to see.

My PSR is: Tier 5
My KDR is: .60 ------766/1283

Here are my stats for last night after playing 10 matches straight and writing each stat after each game (and averaging them together) on a spreadsheet. Each category below is averaged over 10 matches in my Jenner Oxide.
This is a pretty typical night for me. Great stats, great damage - typical, poor KDR hole over the coarse of my Mech career.

Score I Kills I Assists I Damage I My lance position I My position on my team I Survived I Won/Lost I
342.7--I--1.4--I----4-----I---497.4---I------------1.1-----------I---------------2.4----------------I-----6/10-----I-----6/4------I

Edited by Blue Pheonix, 24 September 2015 - 12:00 PM.

[Kira Onime]

[Evan20k]

KDR doesn't matter so much as Most Damage Dealt, etc when determining match score.

But since you asked, Tier 2 with a 1.17 KDR. It's not great and I know there's plenty of people below me with higher KDRs and some above me with lower. I really wish Most Damage Dealt was a metric tracked, because I think that's a much better indicator than simply dealing the final blow.

Edit:

Edited by Evan20k, 24 September 2015 - 11:24 AM.

[MeiSooHaityu]

Tier 3
KDR: 1.45

[Sarlic]

It's not based on your KDR as far i know?

[MechWarrior414712]

Spoiler

Spoiler

[Lorian Sunrider]

Tier 4, KDA of .96

I blame a poor KDA on how much time I spend in light mechs

[Cyborne Elemental]

Tier-1
KDR 2.04

[Kira Onime]

Sarlic, on 24 September 2015 - 11:22 AM, said:

It's not based on your KDR as far i know?

Not really.

[Elizander]

It's more W/L + games played than KDR.

[Valdherre Tor]

[Mcgral18]

Matches Played likely plays a large part.


Tier 1
K/d 3.88
W/l 1.62 (PUG LIFE)
6223 matches since reset (no idea since January)

Edited by Mcgral18, 24 September 2015 - 11:28 AM.

[MeiSooHaityu]

Evan20k, on 24 September 2015 - 11:20 AM, said:

KDR doesn't matter so much as Most Damage Dealt, etc when determining match score.

It's kind if funny too because damage dealt has it's own flaws in determining skill too.

You can have a LRM boat that does 900 damage by showering down missiles that spread damage over the entire mech and he gets a piece of a lot of mechs and maybe bags 1 or 2 mechs. At the same time, you could have a mech that does only 300~400 damage who pinpoint strikes enemy units with accuracy taking out 3 or 4 mechs.

Just because damage is done doesn't necessarily mean it is being applied accurately and the most deadly.

[Blue Pheonix]

Lorian, I blame my poor KDR on me playing almost exclusively "lights" too.

That coupled with what I stated before in the OP. Its hard to get kills and survive (while actively trying to make kills) in a "light". Couple this with my "suiciding" at the end of the match and me not knowing for a good part of my Mech "career" you could customize a Mech (or what customization for each light is best) all factor in.

Vlad, if you count me creating "one single" other thread asking how PSR is determined as opposed to this thread (asking people to post their KDR) as six threads, then one of us may need to go back to school to learn how to count. If critical thinking is used, one will see that while the two threads are related, they are asking directly for different things (one for a direct explanation of how PSR is factored - still no real explanation, the other asking for players to list KDR and PSR together). So really only one thread was created on this topic.

Edited by Blue Pheonix, 24 September 2015 - 11:38 AM.

[rook]

Tier 4
Wins / Losses: 902 / 825
Kill / Death Ratio: 1.19

Edited by rook, 24 September 2015 - 11:33 AM.

[WarHippy]

1.34 KDR
137k c-bills per match average
1603.3 xp per match average
Tier - not allowed to have an opinion

[CDLord HHGD]

T3
1.09

[Valdherre Tor]

Evan20k, on 24 September 2015 - 11:20 AM, said:

KDR doesn't matter so much as Most Damage Dealt, etc when determining match score.

But since you asked, Tier 2 with a 1.17 KDR. It's not great and I know there's plenty of people below me with higher KDRs and some above me with lower. I really wish Most Damage Dealt was a metric tracked, because I think that's a much better indicator than simply dealing the final blow.

Edit:

see your epeen is higher than mine but I have better KDR.... thread is now broke.

[Gideon Grey]

Mcgral18, on 24 September 2015 - 11:27 AM, said:

Matches Played likely plays a large part.


Tier 1
K/d 3.88
W/l 1.62 (PUG LIFE)
6223 matches since reset (no idea since January)

Really? You say "pug life" with a W/L of 1.62? Do you really play exclusively PUG?

That strikes me as an exceptional W/L ratio for pugging, given that the old ELO system tried to force it to 1.0 essentially.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not calling you out... I've seen you play and I'm not questioning your skill, but that seems unsustainable. Is this level of carrying common among Tier 1?

I'm low low low Tier 2.
W/L of 1.15
KDR of 1.54
3318 matches since reset.

Edit: 99.9% public queue pug only, I had probably a couple dozen matches in 4 man or less groups prior to the group queue split, but otherwise always solo.

Edit2 for typos.

Edited by Gideon Grey, 24 September 2015 - 12:05 PM.

[Duke ramulots]

Tier 5
1:3 kill death ratio(someone had to be at the bottom)