About This Site: Scope, Method and Sources
This is a reference for first-person-shooter statistics. It explains what each published figure measures, which system inside the game produces it, and what the figure leaves out — across 11 titles.
What this reference covers
Eleven games, one metrics reference and a guide library. Each game page opens with what that title publishes, which part of the game records it, and the specific recording quirk that makes its numbers easy to misread. The metrics reference covers the seven figures that recur across all of them.
There is no player lookup here, and that is a scope decision rather than a limitation to be fixed later. A lookup depends on a publisher endpoint continuing to exist and on the account holder continuing to publish; both change without notice. An explanation of what a damage figure excludes remains accurate when the endpoint moves.
The site also carries an esports betting section, because betting prices are built from the same statistics the rest of the site takes apart. That section is separated from the reference material and carries its own disclosures.
How the reference is put together
Eleven titles are covered rather than every shooter with a player base, and the selection follows one test: the game has to publish something about a player that can be read and misread. A title that records nothing has no reference to explain, and a title whose figures are entirely internal has nothing a reader can check against what is written here. Two of the eleven are unusual on that test and are included deliberately — one is a closed game that will never change again, and one is not a shooter at all but kept a stat-reading audience for the same reason the shooters did.
Every statistics page is built to the same four questions, in the same order, so that two titles can be compared without re-reading a page structure. What does this game publish; which system inside the game produces it; what does that system leave out or record in a way that surprises people; and what does its ranked ladder actually count. The fourth question is the one most often answered wrongly elsewhere, because a ladder that re-seeds every season describes a season rather than a career, and almost every title here re-seeds.
The guide library is organised by title rather than by subject, and each title's index says what its guides collectively cover and what they deliberately leave out. Those omissions are the same in every case: rosters, balance passes and map rotations change on a schedule nobody outside the publisher controls, and a page describing them is wrong within months.
Which means the site divides into two halves with different lifespans. Definitions, recording behaviour, what a figure excludes and how a ladder is structured hold for years. Anything downstream of a patch does not, and is either left out or written structurally. Where a figure would have to be estimated to be given at all, the mechanism is explained and the absence is stated rather than filled.
Where the figures come from
Everything here is drawn from what publishers document and expose, and from the observable structure of the games. Ladder orders, sub-division counts, reset behaviour, which systems publish what, and which figures are stored separately rather than merged are all verifiable properties rather than opinions.
Three rules govern what gets published. No invented quantities. Where a figure would have to be estimated, as with the share of players in a tier, the page explains the mechanism instead and says why the number is absent. No stale precision. Anything that changes every season is described structurally rather than numerically, because a precise figure that decays is worse than an honest description that does not. No ratings without a scoring pass. That applies to the games, to the metrics and to the sportsbooks in the betting section, none of which carries a score.
Sources sometimes disagree outright, and in Counter-Strike, where no official per-match data exists at all, they routinely do. The disagreement is stated rather than resolved by picking a side.
How the esports betting section is funded
Links to sportsbooks in the esports betting section are commercial links, and a payment may be received when an account is opened through one. The disclosure appears beside them wherever they appear.
Two consequences follow, and both are worth stating. Operators in that section carry no rating, because no editorial scoring pass has been done and a fabricated score would be worth less than none. What is published instead is which titles each book lists and whether its coverage is standing or event-driven, both of which are checkable. And the statistics and guide pages carry no commercial links at all, which keeps the two halves of the site separable.
The compliance surface on every page that carries those links is the same: 21+, the National Problem Gambling Helpline on 1-800-GAMBLER, and a note that availability varies by state. Nothing in that section is betting advice.
Frequently asked questions
Does this site look up player statistics?
No. There is no lookup here and no account is ever queried. Each game page explains where that game keeps its figures, which of them are published, and how to read what you find — in the client, on the publisher profile, or on a third-party service.
Why publish explanations instead of a lookup tool?
Because a lookup breaks whenever a publisher changes an endpoint or a player switches a profile to private, and an explanation of what damage per round excludes stays true when the endpoint moves. The explanation is also the part that is hard to find elsewhere.
Where do the figures on this site come from?
From what the publishers document and expose, and from the structure of the games themselves. Ladder orders, sub-division structures, reset behaviour and recording quirks are all verifiable properties. Nothing here is derived from a private dataset.
Why are there no player percentiles or tier distributions?
Because they move every season and a fixed figure on a static page is wrong soon after it is written. The parts that hold (ladder order, structure and reset behaviour) are what each page carries instead.
Does the betting section change what is written elsewhere?
No. The sportsbook links are commercial and disclosed as such on every page that carries them, and no operator is rated. The statistics pages carry no commercial links at all.