The International 2016 – Predicted Winners
The International 2016 has begun! As we all sate our love of competitive Dota 2, I decided to do a mini breakdown of who I see, statistically, as favorites for this year’s The International. This year we have seen some interesting roster changes, and some new,...
The Manila Major – Team Data Analysis
The Manila Major, the precursor event to The International 2016, was the final stop for teams to get things sorted out and ready the big event, and money pot, of the year. In previous articles we talked about the importance of team synergy and how this impacts in-game...
The Shanghai Major 2016 – Team Ratings
It has been a busy year for the esports world of Dota 2. The abundance of roster changes and star players emerging has made it quite a build up towards The International 6. The Shanghai Major is the second major event to occur since last year’s The International 5. It...
The International 5 – Team Performance Ratings
In the past 24 hours, all regions around the world have completed their qualifiers for The International 6 that will begin, in about one month’s time, on the 8th of August. As we rapidly approach the main event, it is an ideal time to review past tournament...
North America’s Frontman, Bjergsen!
Søren Bjerg, known by his in-game alias “Bjergsen”, is considered one of the most gifted mid laners in the League of Legends esports scene. At one point in his career, Bjergsen was talked of as the next Faker. Bjergsen is known as a dominant 1v1 and teamfight player....
TBQ: Hit-or-Miss
During the group stage of the World Championship 2015, LGD showed poor performance over multiple games. There was talk of nerves and communication breakdown, but mostly the conversation led to the caliber of athletes that played for LGD at the time. Unsurprisingly a...
Biased Data in the LCS
In the past few days it was announced by Riot Games that their esports leagues in Europe and North America would change the Best-of-1 format for the summer half of the 2016 regular season to a Best-of-2, for EU, and a Best-of-3, for NA, format. After the season ends,...
Fixing the Esports Model, Part 1
The competitive gaming scene for the past decade and a half has compared itself to that of conventional professional sports, calling itself esports. There are many similarities between these two areas of entertainment, but there are also vast differences. However, there is a course of action for esports to become more similar, and structured, like sports…
Zven, the up and comer
Jesper "Zven" Svenningsen, the AD Carry for Origen, is one of the new faces to the professional scene of League of Legends. He took the 2015 Summer Split by storm and was named the Outstanding Rookie of the split. The teammates of Zven have stated that he has a lot of...
The Mischievous Top Laner, Huni
SeungHoon “Huni” Heo grew from being an unknown scrimmage partner for Samsung in Korea to an iconic figure in competitive League of Legends with a cult following that chants "HOLO" (Huni Only Lives Once). Prior to the 2014 World Championship, Fnatic was training in...
The Faker Variable
The season 2 World Championship is deemed by many as the starting point for the rapid growth in viewers for competitive League of Legends. The viewing numbers were continuing to grow for all of the major regions (China, Taiwan, Korea, Europe, and North America)....
Imperor or Impostor?
Across the competitive League of Legends community it has been said that Imp is arguably the best ADC (Attack Damage Carry) and that he challenges Faker for the title of best player in the game. When I heard these statements, I was very interested to see the data that Imp would produce, especially after we had completed the data collection and analysis on Faker…
Carrying from the Top Lane
Since MaRin’s arrival to SKT we have seen him emerge as one of the best top laners in the game. The data we collected from the Summer Season for MaRin, in the LCK, was very interesting. He was the definitive carry for SKT. His ability to turn teamfights is staggering....
2017 Spring Season Player Stats
Average KDR & ADR
Stock-Phase Analysis
Player Efficiency Rating
mv K algorithm
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