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.
This past weekend, the NA LCS Summer 2015 regular season MVP award was given to Rush, the Jungler for Team Impulse. Was he the best choice, or should the prize have gone to a different player?
Today we’re going to present Rush’s case, then explore three other players who made my personal short list. If your favorite didn’t end up on my list, feel free to argue your perspective in the comments!
Note: Scroll down to the data if you want to skip the introductory theory talk!
A team’s early-game performance is relatively easy to measure. We have a wide variety of metrics, like gold different at 15 minutes, first blood/dragon/Tower, and more.