Just played COD for the first time since before exams/revision, and I was thinking about the good old kill death ratio. Mine is around 1.70, with regular fluctuation from 1.68 to 1.72. I'd like to think this was above average, everyone likes a good nerd ego boost!, but I'll never know.  
 
Then I got thinking. Every time I get a kill, someone dies. ( I'm such a deep thinker)  so every time my ratio goes up, someone's goes down. Now, its fundamental that there cannot be more kills than deaths, but you can die without killing. If anyone is as pro as me at throwing a cooked grenade off doorframes into my own face I'd be impressed. So would this mean that the entire community average will be slightly less than 1? Meaning that my lovely 1.7 is indeed above average. So, I haven't studied maths since I was 16. So fellow mathmatical duders. Am i right? Is the average cod ratrio less than 1?  
 
Oh and if anyone out there wants to tell me that 1.7 is shit and they get a 5 k/d and thats when controlling it from the otherside of the house using a series of well placed mirrors, thats great! please keep your incredible achievements to yourself. 

The average should be 1.00 even. For somebody to have a 2.0 KDR, somebody else would have to have a 0.5 KDR. If it doesn't average out to 1.00, something is off. It's a zero sum game. You can't have a kill without a death, and deaths without kills (suicides) don't count in the ratio.

if suicides count then it should be less than 1.00 
 
otherwise it should be exactly 1.00 
 
EDIT- beaten by first reply  :P   

Am i right?

@GuyIncognito: Accidental deaths (suicides) don't count though.

@GuyIncognito: Accidental deaths (suicides) don't count though.

average k/d in COD is 8.1/1.    I don't need facts to back this up.

Suicides don't count so its a zero sum game.  
 
However, that zero sum game includes a bunch of noobs that probably play only once a month or something. So, in the overall grand scheme of things, yes you are better than the person that cannot aim for shit and haven't memorized the maps to know what do to. Your E Peen feels good now don't it?  
 
But it's all still relative overall. Between clans (or just people that play regularly), saying you have a k/d ratio of 1.7 while respectable might not mean much when the mass market penetration CoD has, includes so many people that just aren't good at it. Hence, there's still talk of you ain't shit til you get a k/d ratio of 10 or something ridiculous. 

Accidental deaths (suicides) don't count though.