In BF2S, a popular 3rd party statistical website covering Battlefield 2 accounts, offers a great deal of statistical insight into a player’s raw play data, going as far as to analyze every shot ever fired during a ranked game

  This information can also be presented in a format suitable for signatures placed on forum postings. It’s interesting to note that making statistical information available to 3rd parties allows users to syndicate out these visual and textual achievements in various visualizations themselves, and still retain the trusted nature of presenting dynamically updating game data.

  Yet again, we can find a clear parallel going on in Flickr, as statistics easily available via the Flickr API can be reformatted in a visually appealing treatment, and resyndicated back to a user’s profile to become a part of their avatar.