[quote author=LordBritish link=topic=563.msg5754#msg5754 date=1324489668]<br />Blah blah blah<br />[/quote]<br /><br />I view stats as the baseline in IDL.&nbsp; Here&#039;s what I consider average:<br /><br />O: 1.7 flags/round, 28 frags/round, 80% frag ratio<br />M: .5 flags or picks/round 32 frags/round, 100% frag ratio<br />D: .7 picks/round, 38 frags/round, 120% frag ratio<br /><br />If you can&#039;t meet these stats, either you need to make up for it somewhere else or you can&#039;t be a 3rd because every round you play in is almost certainly a loss.&nbsp; An example of a player who makes up for it is Jenova; Jenova&#039;s one of IDL&#039;s all-time great runners, but his frag ratio is &lt; 70%.&nbsp; This is basically due to Jenova&#039;s running style, so anyone drafting him needs to make sure they&#039;re backed up in the frags department.<br /><br />That said, I 100% agree with what LB is saying.&nbsp; Those stats are [b]baselines[/b], just because you meet or exceed them doesn&#039;t mean you&#039;re doing your job.&nbsp; A couple seasons ago Dr_Noob lost his team the Conference Championships because he didn&#039;t understand how playoff rounds worked and thought they had to win, so he left D to try and desperately get a flag and let his opponents score (ironically).<br /><br />Other players don&#039;t understand what &quot;holding mid&quot; means, they don&#039;t understand the importance of items, what camping accomplishes, how to get a gun without blocking your teammates, how to wait before rushing back into mid with the flag, etc.&nbsp; Stats don&#039;t tell the whole story.<br /><br />It&#039;s really important that captains understand how their players play.&nbsp; Whiteboy once said to me his goal was to be the best cover in the game, and I&#039;m pretty sure that&#039;s true; I think White&#039;s the best M in the game because he controls the game from that position.&nbsp; Therefore, sticking him on D really doesn&#039;t allow him to reach his full potential, and if a captain does that then they&#039;re hurting their team&#039;s chances because they&#039;re not putting Whiteboy in a position to win the game for his team.&nbsp; No stat will tell you that.<br /><br />[hr]<br /><br />As LB pointed out, playing different positions drastically changes your stats.&nbsp; If you&#039;re O, you&#039;re gonna end up with &gt; 1 flag/round.&nbsp; If you&#039;re M your stats are gonna be shit because you&#039;re almost always doing something intangible.&nbsp; If you&#039;re D you&#039;ll have a 110% frag ratio because you can camp and you kill opponents that are already damaged.<br /><br />So LB is right when he says players get pigeonholed a lot.&nbsp; Additionally, it takes time to learn a new position on all the maps, so switching things up usually leads to a lot of groans in priv because while you are learning, your team is losing.