The Destiny Trials Report team (@TrialsReport) DMed me a dataset giving Trials of Osiris K/D for players who have played 50 or more Trials of Osiris matches. The data covers Trials of Osiris from the launch of Destiny: Rise of Iron to the end of Trials of Osiris on Black Shield this past weekend.
A total 726,830 accounts (308,982 on Xbox, 417,848 on PlayStation) met the filtering criterion for 50 or more Trials of Osiris matches played.
The following tables depict player counts and K/Ds for each percentile.
Table 1: Trials of Osiris K/Ds, Percentiles, and Number of Players Below Each K/D (Xbox)
| Percentile | Players Below | K/D |
|---|---|---|
| 99 | 305,893 | 1.96 |
| 97 | 299,713 | 1.67 |
| 95 | 293,533 | 1.54 |
| 90 | 278,084 | 1.36 |
| 75 | 231,737 | 1.12 |
| 62.591 | 193,395 | 1 |
| 50 | 154,491 | 0.88 |
Table 2: Trials of Osiris K/Ds, Percentiles, and Number of Players Below Each K/D (PlayStation)
| Percentile | Players Below | K/D |
|---|---|---|
| 99 | 413,670 | 1.96 |
| 97 | 405,313 | 1.67 |
| 95 | 396,956 | 1.54 |
| 90 | 376,064 | 1.35 |
| 75 | 313,386 | 1.1 |
| 64.411 | 269,139 | 1 |
| 50 | 208,924 | 0.86 |
I was a little surprised to learn that the average Trials of Osiris player has a K/D below 1.0. I have some ideas why this might be the case.
Here’s the same data, represented in a scatter plot:
Chart 1: Number of Players vs. Trials of Osiris K/D
Background
I was chatting with iwz delta on the afternoon of Wednesday (February 22, 2017), and I brought up statistics, specifically how players like us are a rarity in the Destiny population. Both of us are anti-meta players who have achieved some degree of success.
During the conversation, I talked with him about the bell curve, and I posited that Destiny’s player population was probably distributed as such.
The conversation still lingering in my mind, I reached out to the Destiny Trials Report team on Twitter:
@TrialsReport Do you know where I might find a breakdown of Trials K/D by percentile? <3
— yetieater (@yetieater) February 23, 2017
Soon afterwards, I received a response, linking me to a tweet by SilverAndSlaver:
Ever wondered how your K/D stacks up against other Trials players? I looked into it thanks to data from @TrialsReport and here's the results pic.twitter.com/QpBVlx4RjR
— SilverAndSlayer (@SilverAndSlayer) December 1, 2016
SilverAndSlayer didn’t have plans to revisit the analysis for a month, so I took it upon myself to begin poring over whatever data I could obtain. I briefly considered enlisting outside help to programmatically scrape Trials of Osiris K/Ds, and was elated when the Destiny Trials Report team reached out with data.
A big thank you to Destiny Trials Report for improving the quality of life for all us Destiny Trials of Osiris players, and for providing me with this dataset!
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