"HLTV Rating, defined"

HLTV Rating is a composite player rating calibrated so that 1.00 is an average professional performance.

Above 1.10 is a strong game, 1.20+ is elite, below 0.90 is poor. It exists because no single stat tells the whole story: kills ignore the player who trades and takes space, KAST ignores how large a player's rounds were, and ADR ignores survival and clutch context. A rating weights them together.

The versions matter. Rating 2.0 was the long-standing standard, 2.1 refined its weights, and Rating 3.0 rebalanced how opening duels and multi-kills are treated.

A rating is not a ranking. It measures an individual's per-round impact; a ranking orders teams — see VRS. A 1.30 rating says nothing directly about where a team stands.

For the full derivation and what changed between versions, see HLTV Rating explained.