by gdeangel on Mon Apr 21, 2008 11:15 am
The problem with the ppg stat (and maybe this was said already... I appologize if it was but I did skim the posts in both threads) is that over time you are ppg will drop down as your game total (no limit) vastly exceeds the maximum points available per gaim (theoretically 8x100=800, but I've yet to find that game ever - and obviously leaving out "battle royale"). So yes, every ball will have 0 first movement at some point, but if you want to think of it like gravity... at the point the "ball" has stopped in this context, it has acquired substantial mass of its own.
That said, there are some other considerations: because of the point weighting system, you have ways to artifically inflate the ppg yield, like playing noobs instead of cadets. If you don't think this happens, go back and check your first 5 games... there's a good chance you had a few games against majors or colonels, but from private/cadet all the way up to seargeant you probably had 1 in 10 games agianst a decent ranking player.
Also, you have team composition to content with, so figuring ppg without taking into account the teammate's relative score is about as useful as looking at win percentage without checking into the type of games the person is playing.
Lastly, you have breakpoints due to the way the cc community is organized. For example, due to the inability to get good opponents, I probably averaged around <10 ppg playing 1v1 from the level of private to seargeant b/c even winning 60%, there was always often a net loss of points. Once I could get into seargenat's hall games, that number shot up substantially b/c I was playing opponents with approixately the same score.... there was no "change in strategy" as you put it.
