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Stats Theory

First Blood = Win

Aside

Through weeks 1 to 8 of 2015 Spring in NA, the team that gets First Blood has won 73% of the games.

  • Cloud9 and Gravity have never lost when securing First Blood.
  • Winterfox has only won 57% of games where they got First Blood, and Team Liquid has only won 67%.
  • TSM has won 67% of games where they gave up First Blood.
Analysis and Opinion

Opinion: Team Coast’s Acquisition of Final Five

As reported yesterday by Annabelle Fischer of The Score eSports, Team Coast has just acquired challenger team Final Five, and initiated some roster swaps as part of the acquisition.

Coast jungler Impaler and support Sheep are going to join Final Five’s starting roster, while KonKwon will move from Final Five into the Coast support position, and WelcomeToHeaven will fill Impaler’s spot in the jungle.

Why would Coast make a move this drastic? Is it an attempt to salvage the Spring Split, a setup for the Summer Split, or maybe a bit of both? Continue reading Opinion: Team Coast’s Acquisition of Final Five →

Stats Theory

Broken Timings in LOLesports Match Histories

I don’t often resort to using memes, but:

Riot, pls

TL;DR: I just confirmed that the timing charts in the lolesports match history pages appear to be broken: every timing is shifted forward by one minute, so the numbers given “at 10:00” actually represent 11:00, and so on. We need to bring this to Riot’s attention so they can hopefully fix it. Continue reading Broken Timings in LOLesports Match Histories →