What is the thing with ping xx8?

Hi
I noticed that sometimes, some players get their ping stuck/stable with a value of 48, or 98, or 198

Some players more than some others

Is there something like a formula about this in the engine?

It is about CoD 1.1

Some people fake bot pings, maybe it's their "random" function?

Do they play like real humans?

Yes I really think they are humans

I have read things about ping faking (for real players)
Must be funny to be able to put the value you want, or make people think you have an awful ping but beat them ^^
I've see this on a cheating forum, I think it can be useful for cheaters/aimbots/something about something called backtrack......

I should try to download the quake3 engine source sometime

Maybe they are watching other players? I remember seeing in CoD1, in the S&D gametype, when you die and watch another player, instead of your ping, it is displayed
And when out of 10 person one is alive, then everyone has his ping

I recently noticed that when you spectate someone you get his ping displayed in scoreboard but in what i describe it's not this/i did not confuse

the most noticeable values with what i describe are 48 and 198