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.
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Lane Swaps Survey

With Riot announcing upcoming game changes aimed at making lane swapping “a strategic choice with actual tradeoffs,” the League of Legends esports community has featured plenty of discussion around how the pro game will be affected, and what place lane swaps hold in both the viewer experience and the competitive balance of League of Legends.

Oracle’s Elixir is asking for your input through a brief survey designed to explore LoL esports viewers’ and participants’ opinions and preferences related to lane swaps.

For this survey, a “lane swap” is defined as a game that begins with both teams sending their players to opposite sides of the map to trade towers, as opposed to “standard lanes” with direct 2v2 match-ups between AD Carry + Support pairings.

Take the Survey

Notes on Methods and Interpretation

The sample for this survey will not be controlled: anyone will be able to complete the survey, or share the link with others. This means that the results may not reflect the overall community. Results will be only informational, and should be used to inform discussion, not drawn upon as factual measurements of the overall LoL esports viewership.

The survey will remain open for approximately one week, or until no more, or few more, responses are being received. Results will be shared on OraclesElixir.com for the interest of the LoL esports community.

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New Metrics from League-Analytics.com

A new LoL analytics site has been launched over at League-Analytics.com, and the guys there have some pretty interesting ideas for new stats.

One of my personal favourites is their “ahead/behind” pair of metrics, which measures how much of the time a team possesses 52% or more of the gold in the game (roughly equivalent to having 8% to 10% more gold than the opponent), paired with a 48% or less measure as well.

They have also created a concept called “Gold Shift Events,” which captures each time there is a substantial gold swing in a game and measures how often each time was on the winning or losing side of that swing.

I highly recommend checking out their work, and following along as they continue to innovate.