All posts by Tim Sevenhuysen

Tim Sevenhuysen is the founder and sole developer of Oracle's Elixir and provides a variety of consulting and contracting services throughout the esports industry. He is the former Director of Esports Analytics for 100 Thieves, served as Head of Data Science for Esports One, led Shadow.gg from 2017 to 2019, and was Statistical Consultant for Fnatic in 2015. Follow Tim on Twitter at @TimSevenhuysen.
Stats Theory

Jungler slash lines improve measurement of early-game effectiveness

TL;DR Because of changes to the jungle as part of Season 7, I am proposing a new way of measuring junglers’ early-game effectiveness.

Key Findings

Changes to the jungle for the 2017 season have created some loss of meaning in one of the oldest statistics used for professional play: CS Difference at X minutes. The addition of more small creeps in the raptor and krug camps has created wider variance in the value of a single creep score (CS), leading to inflated CS gaps for junglers without any real difference in the gold or experience gaps being generated.

These changes have some implications for how we should report on junglers’ early-game head-to-heads. Continue reading Jungler slash lines improve measurement of early-game effectiveness →

News

Control Ward Bug

Aside

Due to bugs in Riot’s match history pages, related to the introduction of control wards, I cannot accurately report wards cleared per minute (WCPM) or visible ward clear rate (VWC) until further notice. Riot is aware of the issue but has not yet introduced a solution.