K/D compared to damage per round can indicate how well the player can dodge or otherwise stay alive and whether they can continue applying damage and thus contributing to the team. You can compare hit rate and damage done per round to evaluate how well the captain can keep rounds on target and effective. For example, looking at US CL/CA captains, you can look at their average planes shot down per round to evaluate how apt they are to both escort friendly ships and how well they can predict the positioning of enemy CV planes. In my opinion, W/L is the least important metric in most cases due to the large number of players per team and the difficulty of any kind of hard carry outside of CVs. Stats show how far a player can stretch their ship and shouldn't necessarily be taken at face value. Personally when i play a match i judge my team based on how they play in that match not what they have done in the past, Simple as that stats and stat tracking in games leads to elitism and splits the community and makes chat toxic Stats are pointless numbers so people can measure their e peen.

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