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.
The 2015 Mid-Season Invitational was an absolute bloodbath, with 62% more kills per minute than the LCK playoffs and a way faster pace than anyone could have expected, based on how each region’s playoffs played out.
The chart above compares the average Combined Kills per Minute (CKPM) from each major region’s playoffs and the entire Mid-Season Invitational tournament. (The LPL unfortunately can’t be included because the league does not release its match histories publicly.) As an added bonus, I’ve broken out average target selection for each region.
For the sake of readability, I’ve gone through and updated all of the public stats tables to use abbreviations as the column headers. You can the meanings of the abbreviations on the Definitions page.
If you find a stats table that is still using full text in the headers, please let me know and I’ll get it switched over. Thanks!
The 2015 Summer Split is officially underway, with the first games played last night in both League Champions Korea (LCK) and the League Master Series (LMS). You can see the new stats pages for these leagues by using the nav bar at the top of the page, or following these links:
