Stat padding

The term Stat padding is commonly used in sports to describe an action that improves a player's statistics despite being of little benefit to his or her team or its chance of winning. An example would be a basketball player scoring a large number of points in the fourth quarter of a game in which his team was already leading by a large margin.

Stat padding is also noticeable in online computer games. A group of players might perform a series of actions which generally require little skill in order to raise a player's statistics. For example, in first person shooters, two or more players might join different teams and constantly kill one another, usually followed by a heal, revive, or respawn. Actions such as these are usually done on password-protected or empty game servers. An example of this in the popular online computer game Battlefield 2 would be when three players collude, one as a medic, another from the other team as a killer, and the another person from the medic's team, called the "dummy," to be the victim. The killer shoots the dummy, and the medic then heals his teammate. The killer shoots the dummy again and the process continues.

See also

Running up the score