This past weekend, the NA LCS Summer 2015 regular season MVP award was given to Rush, the Jungler for Team Impulse. Was he the best choice, or should the prize have gone to a different player?
Today we’re going to present Rush’s case, then explore three other players who made my personal short list. If your favorite didn’t end up on my list, feel free to argue your perspective in the comments!
Note: Scroll down to the data if you want to skip the introductory theory talk!
A team’s early-game performance is relatively easy to measure. We have a wide variety of metrics, like gold different at 15 minutes, first blood/dragon/Tower, and more.
It’s much more difficult to measure a team’s performance in the mid and late game, because those parts of the game are so heavily influenced by what has happened in the early game, but that’s exactly what I’m trying to do here. Continue reading Mid/Late-Game Performances: Win Rates From Ahead, Even, and Behind
Join Tim “Mag1c” Sevenhuysen in a discussion of the “Kill Participation” statistic and the context around how to interpret and apply it properly.
