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

Core Contributors: The statistical best player on each Valorant Champions 2023 team

In Valorant, you can’t become a good team without a baseline of a skill; you can’t become a great team without strong comms, coordination, and playbooks; and you can’t become champions unless you add a heroic star performance as the cherry on top.

With Champions 2023 about to kick off, let’s look at each team’s strongest statistical performer from the year so far. I’ve selected one player per team, based on their numbers since the start of the 2023 VCT regular season. Continue reading Core Contributors: The statistical best player on each Valorant Champions 2023 team →

News

Would You Consider Supporting OE?

Now that I’m working for 100 Thieves and not actively creating content, many of the people who supported me and my work via Patreon have understandably ended their subscriptions.

I still run the Patreon to allow people to support the OE website itself, but support has trickled off enough that costs are now outstripping the financial support by about 35%.

I plan to continue paying for the site’s hosting either way, but if you use OE frequently, especially if you pull data from the site from your own projects at all, I would really appreciate $5 or $10 a month to help cover the server costs.

https://www.patreon.com/oracleselixir

Thanks so much for considering!