What is BFA and Bfe? (Hope I got those right?) how do they come into account for estoc war placement and so on?
BFA - Bonus from (hired) allies BFE - Bonus from (equipped) equipment. They come into play because it makes the player based stats greater.
2% of your allies stats are added onto your stats - BFA. 2% of your equipment stats are also added on - BFE.
Mango got it right. But to clarify. It's 2% added to your "CS" Or you take all your bfa and bfe and add it to your raw stats.
devs have not announced their matching algorithm (although the community has asked for it on numerous occasions).
Op bob gave you the right answer listen to him. Also BFA and BFE are added to raw stats. Raw stats = your true strength. Combined stats cs = what you look at when hiring ally's or looking at the LB.