Numbers, not accusations

We use the stats EA keeps for every player, the same as on their profile: totals, every season, every mode and every weapon. They reach us through gametools.network, the community's public source. If it can't find a name (common with PlayStation and Xbox names), we ask EA's public stats page.

The first time anyone looks up a player, their data is requested from EA right then: it can take up to 15 seconds.

In Battlefield 6 you can inflate your K/D by killing bots in Portal. Before judging anything we separate, mode by mode and season by season, what was played against people, using EA's share of kills against humans.

On every profile, “Their real numbers” shows what share of their kills were against people and their K/D without bot kills.

• With 1,636 real players we follow every day: each weapon is compared with how that same weapon performs, because low-recoil weapons hit more.
• Thresholds were checked against 624 players we follow (friends, clan members and people checked on the site, on PC and console): 2 come out yellow and none red. Also against more than 300 accounts reported on BFBan.
• In Redsec everyone hits more with the same weapon (about 10 points in Gauntlet and 5 in the rest): for those who play there, each weapon's threshold goes up by that much, and their jump between seasons is measured in each game separately: multiplayer against multiplayer and Redsec against Redsec.
• With themselves: their accuracy and play season by season. A clean player changes very little; a sudden jump stands out.
• With the public ban lists of BFBan and BFEAC.

Normal, unusual or very unusual. We look at accuracy with each weapon (against that weapon's own threshold), headshots, kills per minute, infantry K/D, a weapon or mode that doesn't fit the rest of their play, a sudden jump between seasons and an account with few matches and very unusual numbers.

Normal, unusual or looks automated. We check whether their pattern is a person's or an automated account's: hours with almost no kills or movement, whole matches without a kill, never playing objectives or helping the team, playing only in bot farms, a single weapon all the time, or levelling up with almost no score.

• With few matches we say “not enough data”: we never make up a verdict.
• The no-bots K/D is conservative: it counts all their deaths, so it never flatters them.
• Plays on PlayStation? Search their EA name: it's under “Other identities” on their in-game player card.

Checking needs no sign-up (only clans use Discord). Every check is private: we don't publish lists of checked players or “suspects”, and profiles don't show up in search engines. We count visits without cookies. We privately follow checked players' stats for 60 days, without knowing who searched for them (details under “Privacy”, at the bottom).