Today I’m launching a pair of new statistics that measure teams’ performances in the “early game” and the “mid/late game”. These stats use complex modeling to assign an “early-game rating” (EGR) and a “mid/late rating” (MLR) to each team, which lets us quickly compare teams’ performances using single, straightforward numbers. The higher a team’s EGR, the better they have performed in the early game. The higher their MLR, the better they have done in the mid and late game. It’s that simple!
These stats will start showing up on the OraclesElixir.com team stats tables soon.
Keep reading to learn about how EGR and MLR are produced and what they represent, or skip halfway down for lists of team ratings along with some discussion and interpretation. Continue reading EGR and MLR: New Team Ratings→
On August 19, Riot Games announced that the 2015 League of Legends World Championships would be played on patch 5.18. This was literally game-changing, because every competitive region but China had wrapped up its professional play on either 5.14 or 5.15, just before patch 5.16’s “Juggernauts” changes ushered in a sweeping set of item additions and champion reworks, noticeably shifting the metagame.
How will patch 5.18 affect the Worlds landscape? How do teams adapt? Does a brand new meta narrow the gap between top and bottom teams, or widen it? Who will benefit most from patch 5.18, and who will suffer?
Here are some thoughts to chew on as we await the full answers to those questions.
You’re bored of picking winners and losers. We all are. So here are a couple of more interesting questions:
Which champion will have the highest pick+ban rate during the group stage?
Which player will earn the most solo kills during the group stage?
How many wins will the Wildcard teams earn, combined?
Think you can call it right on these and 11 other questions? Think North America can make better predictions than Europe? Go ahead: make your predictions. (And don’t forget to select which region you’re from if you want bragging rights!)
The results will be posted on Wednesday, September 30. Once the group stage is over, I’ll compare your predictions with the actual results, and we’ll see how close we came!
