Also known as "point farming", stat padding is most frequently used in reference to the online game Battlefield 2. Stat padding is the act of recieving undeserved points due to abnormal and unhelpful gameplay.
One of the most common occurrences is when 2 support players go out to the middle of nowhere and alternate tossing a grenade, then resupplying the other, each time getting 1 resupply point.
The extreme of stat padding is when a player coordinates with one or more players on the opposite team to get an enormous amount of kills. For example, a USMC player hides away with 2 MEC medics. The US player will kill one of the medics, then the other will revive him, earning the US player 2 points for a kill, and the MEC player 1 point for a revive, all undeserved. This process can be repeated indefinitely, as the kill does not reduce the ticket count of the other team. This is how some players have best round scores of 800+.
Some players consider skill concentration to be stat padding, but this is simply not true. Running around wielding only a pistol in order to get a pistol badge is NOT stat padding.
On a side note, stat padding violates the EA Ranked EULA. Thousands of players have already had their accounts reset due to excessive stat padding.
mikerotch: dude just keep tossing nades so i can get more resupply points. i need 6 more for veteran resupply.
ipfreely: ok! then u can help me get my expert heal badge!

>>BANNING!!! mikerotch REASON: STAT PADDING!!!
>>BANNING!!! ipfreely REASON: STAT PADDING!!!
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It means that in a fight even if you play it perfectly but have a lower number the higher number will win and not the higher skill, doesn't matter if you play well, dodge every ability, you will lose if you have the lower number.
Jax: *kills Vayne even if she played it perfectly*

Vayne: "lol i lost a stat check"

Jax: "ez noob"
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very talented rapper from Atlanta.

He's signed by Eminem, on Shady Records
Yeah, my name is Stat Quo...
by C-Webb October 25, 2004
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knap stat is short for knappy status. it means gross, disgusting, ugly, and filthy. see nappy. some spell it nappy, but its a whole lot better if you spell it with a k. people can be knap stat, clothes, food, pretty much anything.
BAMF and MFKW see a fat girl walking by with really tight clothes on, and her fat is hanging out everywhere.

MFKW: "well thats knap stat."

BAMF: "i agree."
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An athlete in a team sport who cares more about individual achievements than winning the game.
Peyton Manning is a stat ho, which explains why the Colts have only won one championship during his career despite having first rate talent on both offense and defense surrounding him.

If LeBron James weren't such a stat ho, Cleveland might have won a championship.
by MikeOckenballs November 21, 2010
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College Station, TX; home of Texas A&M University, adjacent to Bryan, TX.
"Hey, when you heading back to C Stat?"
"I'm taking second summer session, so I'll be there in July."
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some hoe that you would root just for the sake of getting a root. ie pretty average but rootable.
Q. What do you think of that broad bro?
A. Yeah i'd tap it for stats
by unwritten law March 19, 2004
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