Analysis and Opinion

Analyst Challenge – Trade Play, July 30

The “trade play” challenge gives you a sequence of play where both teams gained some objective or advantage, and asks you to judge which team gained more. An effective response to this challenge needs to consider each team’s win conditions, and the game state at the start and end of the sequence.

July 30, 2019 Challenge

The Responses

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Stats Theory

LoL’s Advanced Stats Problem – Cody Gerard

The following article was contributed by Cody Gerard.

NOTE: For some interesting discussion on the article, check out the Twitter thread!

If you’re a League of Legends stathead like me—and let’s face it, if you’re reading this article then you are!—you’ve probably wondered why there’s such a lack of reliable, useful advanced metrics and statistics in League of Legends. On the surface, everything about League of Legends should lend itself to this. After all, it is a game that, in many ways, is all about maximizing value and efficiency, the things which most advanced stats in traditional sports are designed to measure, and yet by and large League of Legends lacks those advanced stats.

When I first started trying to write this article, that was the problem I was endeavoring to solve. I wanted to create, at the very least, an outline for a stat designed to give an overarching valuation of an individual player, something similar to baseball’s Wins Above Replacement (WAR) or Weighted Runs Created Plus (wRC+). Continue reading LoL’s Advanced Stats Problem – Cody Gerard →

Analysis and Opinion

Analyst Challenge – Game State Evaluation, July 23

The “game state evaluation” challenge asks you to look at a snapshot from a game and assess which team is “in the lead”, by how much, and why. To do this, you need to ask yourself about each team composition’s win conditions, and determine which pieces of information are most relevant.

July 23, 2019 Challenge

This challenge was from 14:35 of the past weekend’s game between Origen and Vitality.

The Responses

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