Battery service warning at only 40 cycles

Hi all,
I'm running a MBP early 2011 15 incher, and just recently upgraded to Mavericks. Lately by total battery percentage capacity has been fluctuating quite a bit, jumping between high 80s and low 90s, which I figure was pretty normal behavior. Had been dropping to mid 80s recently. After about a week of non-use, turned it on to see a service battery warning by my indicator, and a total battery percentage of only 76%! Rather alarming especially the light usage. I leave it plugged in a lot of the time, and drain it every now and then to about 20% and bring it back up. With only about 40 cycles over the last couple 2.5 years, I'm pretty shocked, especially with claims of 1000 cycles and only using about 20% total batt capacity.
I've reset the SMC in the past but battery capacity by coconut still shows some fluctuation. Do I have a bad battery?
Thanks

Theres a chip on the mac called the system management controller which controls battery management etc resetting it might help you
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964

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