Battlefield 3 negative skill level

battlefield-3

Does anyone know why, even after finishing a multiplayer round and earning the MVP2 ribbon, I get a negative skill level? These are the stats from this round that i pulled from Battlelog.

Skill level -1.76
Kills 9
Deaths 8
K/D Ratio 1.125 
Kill Assists 2 
Vehicles Destroyed 2
Award Score 1100
Squad Score 20
Team Score 1350
Objective Score 50
General Score 2023
Unlock Score 200
Support Score 3513
Bonus Score 70
Combat Score 3513
Total Score 4813

Best Answer

It goes based on your placement in relation to others. If you were MVP 2, and your skill level before this match was 100, but everyone else in your server was skill level 0, and you only barely beat them, then your skill will still go down.

Conversely, you can just barely come last, but if your skill was 0 and everyone else had 1000, then you'll go up.