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.
Analysis and Opinion

Team 8: Statistical Profile, Weeks 1 to 6

Team 8 seemed to enter the North American LCS as “Calitrlolz and friends”, riding the hype wave of their carry-oriented, pharmacy-school-deferring top laner. They had some success with “wombo combo” compositions, most famously landing an incredible Malphite+Orianna combination against Team Impact, but struggled to expand their strategic range.

In the past few weeks, though, strong performances from jungler Porpoise and mid-laner Slooshi have showed that Team 8 is developing some diversity in not only their team compositions, but also their carry threats.

Let’s take a look at a statistical profile of Team 8 through the first six weeks of the 2015 Spring Split. Continue reading Team 8: Statistical Profile, Weeks 1 to 6 →

Analysis and Opinion

IWillDominate: The Toucan Effect

Let’s talk about Dom.

Christian “IWillDominate” Rivera is Team Liquid’s jungler and also their shotcaller, directing the team’s strategy and movement throughout the game. This puts IWD in a pivotal position to affect the outcome of every game: as Hai’s ups and downs with Cloud 9 this split have demonstrated, the individual performance of the shotcaller can make a massive difference to the team’s overall performance.

So how have the back-and-forth substitutions of Keith and Piglet affected IWD’s individual performance and playstyle? Continue reading IWillDominate: The Toucan Effect →