What the numbers mean

Your own number from your last 40 fours (4on4 games with a demo) on the Den or LA servers. Every number on the coach that says "you" comes from those 40 games. Older games do not count.

The number a player has when they are just good enough to move up one level. Match it and you are doing that one thing like a player one level above you.

How we count it

We line up every active player by how far above average they play and by this stat, draw the trend line, and read it off at the edge of the next level. It always sits between what your level does and what the next level does.

What good looks like

Reaching the target on both gates is what moves you up. It is the next step, not the best in the world.

The middle player at your level. Half the players at your level are above this number and half are below. If you are under it, this stat is behind even your own level.

Your belt. It comes from one number: how much you help your team win compared with an average player, over your last 40 fours. L1 Survive, L2 Stack, L3 Fight, L4 Control, L5 Carry.

How we count it

Mean of your "above average per game" over the last 40 fours. Under -30 is L1, -30 to -10 is L2, -10 to +15 is L3, +15 to +40 is L4, over +40 is L5. You need 15 games to get one.

What good looks like

It is not a rating and nobody votes on it. It moves when your play moves.

The two stats you must reach to move up a level. Each gate has a target (the promotion line). Pass both and the coach says you are ready to move up.

How we count it

L1 gates: share of the reds and damage per minute. L2: deaths per minute and even-fight win rate. L3: quads per game and share of the reds. L4: adjusted kills per minute and stacked damage ratio.

The single thing the coach wants you to work on right now. Not a list. One thing.

How we count it

The stat where you are furthest below the target, with a bonus if it is one of your gates and if it is something you do in your wins but not in your losses. It stays your focus for 10 games, then the coach checks whether it moved.

The one habit to actually do in the game to move the focus stat. Say it on comms, do it every spawn.

On one map your play can match a different level than your overall one. "Plays like L2" on e1m2 means: on that map you play like a Level 2 player, even if you are L3 overall.

"Map" means the targets on that tab come from players who have played that map a lot (8 or more games), so a one-red map is judged against one-red-map play. "Pooled" means not enough players have a baseline there yet, so the targets come from all maps together.

Your score. You get one frag for every enemy you kill. You lose one when you kill yourself (a suicide, like discharging in water) or kill a teammate.

Enemies you killed. Kills minus your suicides and teamkills is your frags.

How many times you died, from anything: an enemy, lava, a fall, your own rocket, a teammate.

Damage given is how much health and armor you took off enemies, added up over the game. Damage taken is how much they took off you. 100 damage is one fresh spawn.

How much punishment you can take right now: your health plus what your armor will soak up. 100 health with a full red is a stack of about 300; a fresh spawn is 100. On this site "stacked" means 150 or more.

How we count it

Red soaks up 80% of each hit, yellow 60%, green 30%, until the armor runs out. Stack = health / (1 - soak), or health + armor if that is smaller.

Green (GA) is 100 armor that soaks 30% of each hit. Yellow (YA) is 150 that soaks 60%. Red (RA) is 200 that soaks 80%. Red is the big one: it is the difference between dying to two rockets and surviving five. An armor comes back 20 seconds after it is taken.

A health pack that takes you to 250 health, which then ticks back down to 100. It comes back 20 seconds after your health is back at 100. Megas are the second stack item after red.

Quad damage: four times damage for 30 seconds. It spawns every 60 seconds, so a 20-minute game has 20 of them. A quad rocket kills a fresh spawn in one hit. It is the item that decides the most fours games.

Pentagram of protection: 30 seconds where you take no damage at all. It spawns every 5 minutes on the maps that have one (dm3, schloss). Nothing hurts a pent player, so the play against one is to run, hide the items, and count the 30 seconds.

Ring of shadows: 30 seconds of being nearly invisible. Only dm3 and schloss have it. Good for stealing a red or sneaking up on the quad room.

Rocket launcher and lightning gun, the two weapons that decide fights. A direct rocket does 100 to 120 damage and its splash hurts everyone near it. The LG does 30 per cell, 10 cells a second, with no splash. "Armed" on this site means carrying one of them.

Quake's ruler. Every distance in the game is measured in units. A player is 56 units tall and 32 wide. You run at 320 units a second, so 650 units is about two seconds of running. A rocket flies 1,000 units a second and the lightning gun reaches 600 units.

How we count it

We read positions straight from the demo, ten times a second, and measure straight-line distance in units. When the coach says "within 650 units of the quad", picture the quad room and the hallway leading into it: close enough to be in the fight for it, not just on the same side of the map.

Big items come back on a schedule: armors and megas 20 seconds after they are taken, quad 60 seconds after it was taken, pent 5 minutes. Good teams say the take time out loud on comms and add the respawn. Being "on the timer" means you were standing there when it came back, not walking past it later.

How we count it

There is no fixed quad second. Across all our fours the quad is taken within one second of spawning nine times in ten (dm2 is the slow one, at about two), so the quad time drifts roughly a second later every minute. Take the last quad time, add 60, add a second, and be at the door five seconds before that.

Out of all the red armors anyone took in the game, the share you took. If the game had 60 red pickups and you took 9, your share is 15%. Eight players share the reds, so an equal cut is 12.5%.

How we count it

Your red pickups divided by every red pickup in the game, both teams. We use the share, not the count, so a one-red map (dm3, schloss) and a two-red map (dm2) count the same. e1m2 has no red, so it is left out.

What good looks like

L1 players sit around 5%. L3 is about 13%. The top players take 17% or more, which means they are taking more than their fair cut off the other team.

How to move it

Know the red time: last take plus 20. Leave the fight five seconds before that and be standing on the red with a rocket loaded when it comes back. Do not spend a red on a 50-50 fight.

Same idea as share of the reds, but for yellow armor. Yellows are cheaper and there are more of them, so this is about restacking after every death instead of running back in naked.

How we count it

Your yellow pickups divided by every yellow pickup in the game, both teams.

How to move it

Every respawn: yellow first, then the fight. On dm2 there are three, so there is no excuse.

How many reds you picked up in a game. We show it because everyone knows what 8 reds means, but the coach uses share of the reds instead, because a two-red map hands out twice as many.

How many yellows you picked up in a game. Shown for reference; the coach uses the share.

Of the reds you took, the share you took right as it came back. That means you were there on purpose, on the clock, not walking past it half a minute later. A late red is one the enemy could have had.

How we count it

A red counts as on the timer when you take it within 3 seconds of its respawn. Needs at least 30 reds in your last 40 games to be judged.

How to move it

Say the time when anyone takes it. Be at the red three seconds early with a rocket ready and hold the door, not the item.

How many megas you took. A mega makes you a two-rocket problem instead of a one-rocket problem. Shown on the game cards, not coached.

How many quads you picked up in a game. There are 20 in a game, spread across eight players. Two a game is Level 3 play; three or more is Level 4.

How we count it

Quad pickups per game, averaged over your last 40 fours.

What good looks like

Players who take three or more a game sit a full level above players who take two.

How to move it

Own the quad clock: when anyone takes it, say the time out loud and add 60. Be at the way in five seconds before that with armor on, and have a teammate cover the other way in. Which way in, and which one converts, is on each map's quad page.

Go deeper

Quad on dm3 →Quad on dm2 →Quad on e1m2 →Quad on schloss →

Of the 20 quad spawns in a game, how many you were near when it came back. It is attendance. Dying there while trying counts too.

How we count it

"Near" means within 650 units of the quad at any point in the last 10 seconds before it spawned, up to the spawn. Nothing after the spawn counts. Measured from every player position in the demo.

What good looks like

Almost everyone shows up to about 14 of 20, at every level. The levels split on what happens next: quad conversion.

How to move it

Know when it is due (last take plus 60). Leave what you are doing 10 seconds before that with a yellow on, and be at the way in five seconds early, not on the pad. Which way in depends on the map: each map has its own quad page.

Go deeper

Quad on dm3 →Quad on dm2 →Quad on e1m2 →Quad on schloss →

Of the quad spawns you showed up to, the share where YOU walked away with the quad. Show up to 14 and take 2 and your conversion is 14%.

How we count it

Your quad pickups at contested spawns divided by the spawns you contested.

What good looks like

L1 players convert about 4%, L3 about 14%, L5 about 27%. The best player on the NA servers is over 30%. This is the stat that actually separates the levels at quad.

How to move it

Arrive with stack and a rocket loaded, not naked, and stand where the enemy comes IN, not on the pad. That place is different on every map: schloss has a door, a drop-down from above and the path from cathedral rocket; e1m2 has two doors (GL side and the stairs from mid); dm3 has the gap jumps, high YA and the pent window; dm2 has the quad path from high RL, the rocket jump from big and the whole water side. Each map has a quad page that says which way converts, with what stack, and how early.

Go deeper

Quad on dm3 →Quad on dm2 →Quad on e1m2 →Quad on schloss →

Times per game you died within 650 units of the quad in the 10 seconds before it came back. That is you fighting for it and losing. It still counts as showing up.

Of your quad runs, the share where you died before the 30 seconds ran out. Dying with quad hands four-times damage to nobody, and often hands the next quad to the enemy.

How we count it

Runs that ended in your death divided by all your quad runs. Needs 8 runs to be judged.

How to move it

With quad, kill the players in front of you; do not chase into a room with three enemies. Shoot at feet: quad splash kills on its own.

In the quad runs where you lived the whole 30 seconds, how many frags you got on average. A full run should be worth four or more.

How we count it

Frags during runs of 28 seconds or more, divided by the number of those runs.

How to move it

Plan the route before you take it: quad, then straight to where the enemy stacks (their red), then their spawns. Never wait for them to come to you.

Seconds from entering one room to entering another, measured from real games. Fast is the 10th percentile of runs that went that way in one life, with the stairs, lifts and jumps in it; typical is the median.

How we count it

From 64 recent NA fours through the demo parser's room trails: every time a player entered room A and then room B within 25 s of one life. Pairs with 8+ runs; pairs nobody ran are estimated by chaining typical legs.

What good looks like

An item up in 5 s that is 8 s away is not yours; one that is 3 s away is yours if you leave now.

How to move it

Count the item clock against the fast number for the room you are in, and leave on time. The tables are on each map's quad playbook; the Game Report uses the same table for its clocks and perfect-timing lines.

Go deeper

dm3 travel times →dm2 →e1m2 →schloss →

Damage you dealt per minute of the game. A fresh spawn has 100 health, so 500 a minute is five spawns worth of health every minute.

How we count it

Total damage given divided by minutes played.

How to move it

Shoot at where they will be, not where they are. Shoot at feet. Keep the RL loaded and hold the corners where enemies come to you.

How many times you died per minute. Every death hands the enemy your armor and gives you a fresh 100-health spawn to lose again. 2.0 a minute is 40 deaths in a game.

How we count it

Deaths divided by minutes played.

What good looks like

Going from 2.5 to 2.0 a minute is ten fewer deaths a game. Ten fewer respawns is ten more chances to hold stack.

How to move it

Count to three after you lose an exchange before you go back in. Armor first, then the fight. On a bad spawn, walk away from the fight, not into it.

Damage you dealt divided by damage you took, counting only the time you had a stack of 150 or more. It ignores naked chip damage. Above 1.0 means that when you are strong you win the trade; below 1.0 means you waste your stacks.

How we count it

Damage given while stacked / damage taken while stacked.

What good looks like

L3 players are around 1.35. L5 players are over 1.6.

How to move it

When you are stacked, fight the fight in front of you and finish it. When you drop under 150, leave, restack, come back. Do not spend a red on a 50-50.

Kills per minute, but each kill is scored by how hard the fight was. Finishing a player who was already at 20 health from a teammate's rocket is worth a little; killing a stacked RL carrier while you are naked is worth three kills. Whoever did the damage gets the credit.

How we count it

Each kill is worth 0.5 divided by the chance the killer wins that fight (from both players' stack when the fight started, and any power-up), capped at 3. It is split 15% to whoever landed the last hit and 85% by damage done.

How to move it

Take fights you can win from stack, and finish them yourself instead of leaving a 20-health enemy for a teammate.

When you and one enemy start a fight with about the same stack, how often you get the kill. This is pure skill: aim, movement, and picking the moment.

How we count it

A fight is even when the stack gap at first contact is under 60. Needs 30 even fights in your last 40 games to be judged.

What good looks like

L1 players win 34% of their even fights, L3 about 53%, L5 about 65%.

How to move it

Even fights are won by the first rocket. Prefire the corner. If you miss the first one, jump out and reset instead of trading.

Of the fights you started (you hit first), the share where you were the weaker player by 60 stack or more. Starting a fight you are behind in is how stacks get wasted.

How we count it

Fights you started with a stack gap of -60 or worse, divided by all fights you started. Needs 30 started fights to be judged.

How to move it

Before you shoot, ask: am I stronger? If not, go get armor and come back.

A death within 14 seconds of your last one, after you lived long enough to pick something up. It is the tilt loop: die, respawn, run back naked, die again.

How we count it

Chained deaths divided by all your deaths.

What good looks like

In 4on4 it turns out not to separate wins from losses once deaths per minute is counted, so the coach shows it but does not coach it. In duels it matters a lot.

Deaths within 3 seconds of spawning, before you could pick anything up. Some are bad luck (you spawned next to the quad carrier). Many are running the same route out of the spawn every time.

Teamkills: teammates you killed. Each one costs you a frag and costs them their stack and a spawn. Team damage: health and armor you took off your own team.

What good looks like

The coach charges teamkills in +/- but does not rank them as a lever: the good players are the stacked ones in the middle of the pack and they teamkill more, not less.

Damage per rocket fired, direct hits and splash together. A direct hit is 100 to 120; a rocket that lands near someone does less; a rocket into a wall does zero.

How we count it

All your rocket damage divided by rockets fired.

What good looks like

Around 45 a rocket is Level 3 play. The top players are over 55.

How to move it

Shoot at feet, not at chests. Wait half a second for the shot you can land instead of firing the one you cannot.

The share of your rockets that hurt someone, direct or splash. It is not the same as direct-hit accuracy: a rocket that splashes two players connects.

Of the cells you fired, the share that hit. 30% is a very good fours game; over 35% is elite. Only maps with an LG count (dm3).

Frags that came within a few seconds of your last one: a double, a triple. A quad run is mostly multi-frags.

Your kills and deaths, each weighted by how much it mattered at that moment. A kill at 10-10 with eight minutes left counts full; a kill at 200-80 in a decided game counts for little. Credit for a kill is shared: 85% to whoever did the damage, 15% to whoever finished. It is your raw contribution before we look at who you played with.

How we count it

Each kill and death is worth how much it moved the win chance, from a model fitted on every NA fours game we have that knows the score, the time left, both teams' stack, launchers and powerups. Items, quads and teamkills are not scored here on their own; they show up through the kills they lead to, and on their own lines in the Impact score and the coach.

What an average active player would have scored in your exact spot: same teammates, same opponents, same map. Strong teammates and weak opponents raise it.

How many frags better (or worse) you were than an average active player would have been in your spot. It is your +/- minus what was expected of you. Zero is average. +15 is Level 4 play. +40 is carrying.

How we count it

Your +/- minus the expected +/- for your seat, given your teammates and opponents (rated from their own games). Averaged over the last 40 fours. This is the number your level comes from.

Same as above average, but compared with a "replacement" player: the kind you get when you fill the last slot with whoever is online. Almost everyone is positive here. It is the "how much would we miss you" number.

One grade for one game. 1.00 is the average of the eight players in that game; 1.30 means 30% better than average that night. It counts things +/- cannot see: taking armor, holding stack, not dying.

How we count it

Adjusted kills, damage, stacked damage ratio, deaths, items taken and multi-frags, each divided by the game average, weighted and added. It is not zero-sum: all four players on the winning team can be above 1.00.

Frags divided by frags plus deaths. 50% means one death for every frag. 60% means you frag three for every two deaths.

Of the reds in the duel, the share you took. In a duel this is the whole map: the player with the reds wins the fights.

How well you used the first seconds after each spawn compared with what the top players do from that same spawn on that map: the route, the first item, the first fight.

Your average stack at the moment you got a kill. High means you fight from armor; low means you are winning naked fights, which stops working against better players.

The share of the game you spent with a stack of 150 or more.

The share of your spawns where the first thing you picked up was an armor, not a weapon.

Seconds after a death until you were back at 150 stack. Lower is better.

How stacked the enemy was when they killed you. High means you fought them at the wrong time; go take an item instead.

Spawns where you took an item before dealing any damage.

Damage dealt divided by damage received. Stacked DDR counts only the time you were at 150 or more, so it shows whether you cash in your stacks.