Where the boards come from
Seven boards, each answering a different question, and none of them a ranking of the others.
The seven
- Rating
- Glicko-2 skill. The headline board.
- Kills
- Career total.
- Deaths
- Career total. Yes, it is a board — some people are proud of it.
- K/D
- Kills divided by deaths.
- Cash
- Career in-match earnings.
- Playtime
- Hours actually connected, not hours the launcher was open.
- Wins
- Matches your side took.
Rating is the headline; the rest are counter boards, kept apart deliberately. Kills do not weight the rating, so the K/D leader and the rating leader are usually two different people — and the product says so rather than blending them into one score nobody can interpret.
Clans: one board averages, six sum
Every board can be read by player or by clan. A clan’s number comes from its current roster’s careers, so recruiting somebody counts their history from the next read — there is no separate clan scoreboard to drift out of step.
On the counter boards a clan’s total is the sum of its members’, which rewards depth. On the rating board it is the average, because adding two ratings together produces a number that means nothing.
That average is also why a clan needs 3 ranked members before it appears there at all. A clan of one on an averaged board is that player’s rating wearing a clan name, and it would sit above every real roster — averages do not reward depth, so nothing else stops it. The counter boards have no such minimum: a small clan placing high on kills genuinely did the work.
The small print that changes positions
- The rating board needs 5 counted matches. The counter boards do not — they are totals, and a total is never uncertain.
- K/D divides by deaths, or by one if you have none. Treating a flawless player as “kills over one” is the convention every scoreboard uses, and it keeps them on the board rather than dropping the row.
- Anybody can opt out of the public boards from their account. They are removed from the count as well as the display — hiding somebody in the UI while still counting them would shift everyone below by one and make “I’m 41st” untrue.
- Clan boards only ever show clans. Operator organizations share the same underlying table, and without that filter a customer’s staff list would appear as a clan.
Start with the rating board, or read about the rating system.