Greedy Goblin

Killboards without inflation

The zkillboard data is useless for statistical purposes due to kill inflation. The problem is that everyone who was present on the kill get full kill value, despite he did part of the kill. If 9 equal ships smartbomb each other to death, everyone will get 90% ISK ratio. This isn't just a theoretical problem, the actual dataset is highly inflated and has tiny correlation with de-inflated data:

To battle this, I distribute the kills among the killers. If a pilot, corp or alliance did 1% damage of a 100B titan, they get 1B damage in the statistics, not 100B. Below you can see the top damage alliances of 2015, compared to their 2014 performance. The 2014 data was complete and took months to get, so in 2015 just selected alliances were queried. This means that alliances can be missing, therefore true ranks can be lower than indicated here. If you think a relevant alliance is missing, please comment and I add it. All data are available to download for yourself, links are in the detail posts (click on the 2014 or 2015 damages). Big thanks to Hanura H'arasch who got them from the Zkillboard API.

The data columns:
  • 2015 damage rank. No ranks displayed over 20, because it's not sure that a missing alliance isn't higher than them. Emporium alliances are marked with red background.
  • 2014 damage rank, color-coded with 2015/14 change
  • Alliance name
  • Billion ISK destroyed in 2015, click for detailed report
  • Billion ISK destroyed in 2014, click for detailed report if available
  • ISK destroyed change from 2014 to 15
  • Billion ISK lost in 2015
  • Billion ISK lost in 2014
  • ISK ratio in 2015
  • ISK ratio change from 2014 to 2015
  • Million rats killed in their sov in 2015
  • Average size of sov in 2015
  • Ratting safety: Rats killed per million ISK lost in 2015
  • Ticker (Click for Dotlan link)
2015 2014 Name 15 BDam 14 BDam Change 15 BLoss 14 BLoss 15 ISKR D ISKR 15 M Rats 15 Sov Rat safety Ticker
1 1 Goonswarm Federation 13053 12802 1 % 10722 10481 55 0 146.1 124.3 13.6 CONDI
2 2 Pandemic Legion 11649 9687 20 % 4209 6685 73 14 1.3 5.7 0.3 -10.0
3 6 CODE. 7684 5778 32 % 923 719 89 0 0.0 0.0 - CODE.
4 - Project.Mayhem. 6004 47 NEW 1966 24 75 9 0.0 0.0 - 16-13
5 12 Snuffed Out 5987 3516 70 % 2559 992 70 -8 0.0 0.0 - B B C
6 7 Brave Collective 5130 5273 -3 % 7855 7560 40 -1 8.6 26.8 1.1 BRAVE
7 10 Hard Knocks Citizens 4692 3635 29 % 856 854 85 4 0.2 1.3 0.2 HKRAB
8 4 Northern Coalition. 4668 6400 -28 % 4106 7381 53 7 4.1 24.9 1.0 NC
9 18 LowSechnaya Sholupen 4524 2686 68 % 1151 900 80 5 0.9 4.5 0.8 -LSH-
10 3 The Marmite Collective 4309 9541 -55 % 204 506 95 0 0.0 0.0 - MYM8
11 15 The Gorgon Empire 4052 3179 27 % 2024 1135 67 -7 1.8 11.6 0.9 -GE-
12 9 Triumvirate. 3790 3722 1 % 2749 2197 58 -5 10.6 41.1 3.8 TRI
13 17 Circle-Of-Two 3675 2906 26 % 4023 2953 48 -2 22.1 31.9 5.5 CO2
14 25 Mordus Angels 3642 2135 70 % 2012 1460 64 5 0.0 0.1 - MOA
15 11 Shadow Cartel 3636 3572 1 % 1618 1154 69 -7 0.0 0.0 - SHDWC
16 5 Black Legion. 3527 5936 -41 % 2891 2968 55 -12 8.6 22.7 3.0 MEN.
17 20 Legion of xXDEATHXx 2896 2389 21 % 2780 2353 51 1 22.1 84.1 7.9 X.I.X
18 39 Test Alliance Please Ignore 2754 1703 61 % 4062 2103 40 -5 5.4 19.8 1.3 TEST
19 23 The Afterlife. 2719 2269 19 % 1667 898 62 -10 7.0 17.3 4.2 D3ATH
20 46 The Bastion 2702 1467 84 % 3035 1571 47 -1 22.7 39.3 7.5 BASTN
- 96 Out of Sight. 2607 610 327 % 1420 346 65 1 0.0 0.0 - OOS
- 19 Fidelas Constans 2426 2567 -6 % 4503 3270 35 -9 82.1 76.7 18.2 FCON
- 105 Verge of Collapse 2213 578 282 % 677 217 77 4 0.0 0.7 - CRIT
- 55 Spacemonkey's Alliance 2128 1215 75 % 4685 1915 31 -8 26.5 38.7 5.7 SMA
- 14 Red vs Blue 2124 3263 -35 % 2152 3093 50 -1 0.0 0.0 - RVB-B
- 27 Tactical Narcotics Team 2032 2044 -1 % 1767 1533 53 -4 20.7 49.5 11.7 TNT
- 159 Soviet-Union 2025 416 386 % 2350 328 46 -10 36.7 74.2 15.6 CY-27
- 8 SOLAR FLEET 1974 4059 -52 % 1652 2445 54 -8 27.0 49.1 16.3 SOLAR
- 13 Nulli Secunda 1961 3380 -42 % 2972 4639 40 -2 7.3 28.9 2.4 S2N
- 37 The Initiative. 1959 1742 12 % 1296 1306 60 3 8.9 22.7 6.9 INIT.
- 31 WAFFLES. 1895 1929 -2 % 1098 890 63 -5 0.1 0.7 - N0MAD
- 48 Red Alliance 1760 1337 31 % 1915 1112 48 -7 17.1 76.2 8.9 RED
- 69 Get Off My Lawn 1684 993 69 % 1836 1299 48 5 18.8 37.3 10.2 LAWN
- - Pandemic Horde 1262 0 NEW 1560 0 45 45 1.3 4.8 0.8 REKTD
- 16 RAZOR Alliance 1047 3081 -67 % 1682 2944 38 -13 21.2 47.9 12.6 -RZR-
- 58 Cynosural Field Theory. 984 1189 -18 % 598 413 62 -12 0.0 0.0 - MOROS
- 127 Dream Fleet 840 505 66 % 1358 376 38 -19 12.0 69.2 8.8 DRF
- 217 Shadow of xXDEATHXx 699 295 136 % 3195 1441 18 1 91.2 266.4 28.5 X.W.X
- - RUCA Emperor 601 0 NEW 744 0 45 45 22.4 14.0 30.1 RUCEM
- 88 Executive Outcomes 438 699 -38 % 551 668 44 -7 6.1 24.1 11.0 .EXE
- 122 I Whip My Slaves Back and Forth 376 533 -30 % 612 588 38 -10 3.2 11.6 5.2 J4LP
- 81 Brothers of Tangra 212 779 -73 % 1630 4421 12 -3 40.7 121.2 25.0 B0T
- - Sum of top 20 (in T) 101 97 3 % 61 65 62 2 261 455 - Top20
2015 2014 Name 15 BDam 14 BDam Change 15 BLoss 14 BLoss 15 ISKR D ISKR 15 M Rats 15 Sov Rat safety Ticker

As you can see, the performance of top alliances did not decrease along with the EVE playerbase and their total ISK ratio is high, since they mostly don't kill each other. They gank small groups and NPC corp pilots instead.

You can also see big changes between the 2014 and 15 performances. Of course nothing matches the "zero to hero" of Project.Mayhem, but Snuff, Lowsechnaya, MoA, Bastion, OOS, SMA, LAWN and DRF increased their kills by more than a half. On the other hand there were big losers, the biggest being BL and Nulli, both disbanding and several alliances losing 1/3-1/2 of their kills and RAZOR losing 2/3.

In 2015, 1218 millionnullsec rats died. if you compare it with the total rats in the sov of the top 20 killers, you'll see that Sov-holding makes no one good in PvP.

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