• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EDT 13:38
CEST 19:38
KST 02:38
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
Serral wins HomeStory Cup 2915Serral wins Maestros of the Game 243ByuL, and the Limitations of Standard Play3Team Liquid Map Contest #22: Results and Winners7Code S Season 2 (2026): RO4 and Finals Preview12
Community News
Weekly Cups (Aug 3-9): Protoss get shut out7RSL goes to London! 2026 Offline Finals Nov 21-2212Weekly Cups (July 27-Aug 2): SHIN's big week0SC4ALL II: Brood War - $2500 - Dec 5-611SC4ALL II announced - $10,000 prize pool, Dec 5-64
StarCraft 2
General
GSTL Returns in 2026! SC4ALL: II Talent Announcement! https://www.facebook.com/Eco.Fuel.Reviews/ Balance hotfix patch 5.0.16b (July 16) Protoss AoE skill expression
Tourneys
PIG STY FESTIVAL 8.0! (13 - 23 August) https://www.facebook.com/Audileaf.Official/ 2026 KungFu Cup Announcement Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament RSL goes to London! 2026 Offline Finals Nov 21-22
Strategy
[G] Having the right mentality to improve
Custom Maps
Nexus Wars 2021 GUIDE [M] (2) Industrial Park
External Content
How to Watch RedNote Short Dramas in the United St u4gm Diablo 4: QoL Secrets for Faster Gameplay u4gm POE2 Frostbolt Build: A Powerful Boss Killer U4GM CFB 27 Guide: Why UTSA’s Offense Is So Danger
Brood War
General
ASL22 General Discussion StarCraft 64 is coming to Philly at SC4ALL II BW General Discussion [Personal Project Share] Terran Defense v0.60 BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/
Tourneys
[Megathread] Daily Proleagues SC4ALL II: Brood War - $2500 - Dec 5-6 KCM Race Survival 2026 Season 3 2v2v2v2 Tournament
Strategy
Odyssey Mineral Stack Saturation Fighting Spirit mining rates Any training maps people recommend? Simple Questions, Simple Answers
Other Games
General Games
Nintendo Switch Thread Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread EVE Corporation General RTS Discussion Thread Diablo 2 thread
Dota 2
Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion
League of Legends
[TL LoL EUW IHs] Teemo shall perish TSM pausing esports and CLG Dead
Heroes of the Storm
Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug
TL Mafia
TL Mafia Power Rank TL Mafia Community Thread NeO.D_StephenKing vs This Guy From 1 Million Dance
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread European Politico-economics QA Mega-thread The Letting Off Steam Thread Iain M Banks Says He Has Cancer And Months To Live Russo-Ukrainian War Thread
Fan Clubs
MarineLorD Fan Club The ShoWTimE Fan Club The herO Fan Club!
Media & Entertainment
Movie Discussion! Anime Discussion Thread Series you have seen recently... [Req][Books] Good Fantasy/SciFi books
Sports
Football (Soccer) Thread TeamLiquid Health and Fitness Initiative For 2023 NBA General Discussion Formula 1 Discussion MLB/Baseball 2023
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread Simple Questions Simple Answers FPS when play League Of Legend on laptop
TL Community
The Automated Ban List Northern Ireland Global Starcraft
Blogs
Chinese Gen Z: Between Dream…
TrAiDoS
Cathedral Of CS And NY pizza a…
FuDDx
Please support my new stand…
Peanutsc
Hello guys!
LIN1s
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 4927 users

Trying to make a GOAT list for sc2 - Page 3

Blogs > The_Red_Viper
Post a Reply
Prev 1 2 3 All
The_Red_Viper
Profile Blog Joined August 2013
19533 Posts
July 08 2017 13:31 GMT
#41
On July 08 2017 21:52 DieuCure wrote:
But for you The Red Viper, GOAT = the best in tournaments or the most skilled player ?

Results are the only objective data we can gather about skill, so it's basically the same
IU | Sohyang || There is no God and we are his prophets | For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.” | Ignorance is the parent of fear |
DieuCure
Profile Joined January 2017
France3713 Posts
July 08 2017 13:51 GMT
#42
No, it's not, TY won IEM Katowice with tank push for example, he did a lot of amazing matchs without winning a tournament for example.

Just watch his TvZ against Rogue, he showed way more skills than he did when he won IEM
TL+ Member
The_Red_Viper
Profile Blog Joined August 2013
19533 Posts
July 08 2017 14:44 GMT
#43
You don't have to win tournaments, you could totally get goat in my system by simply placing well a lot.
But if your "skill" cannot produce results then there is no point. Players play the game to win matches, not to have forum posters argue abotu their subjective view on "skill".
IU | Sohyang || There is no God and we are his prophets | For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.” | Ignorance is the parent of fear |
opisska
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Poland8852 Posts
July 09 2017 08:33 GMT
#44
I was thinking about this today. I am pretty sure you are gonna do a great job making a good rational rating. However I asked myself: if I was asked to pick one great player quickly, who would it be and the answer is really easy. I know I didn't always like him much, never were a fan of his styles, yet he seems to be undoubtedly the one I always think about as the poster man for the game. You all know who that is, face it. If that doesn't make him the goat, then I don't know ...
"Jeez, that's far from ideal." - Serral, the king of mild trashtalk
TL+ Member
The_Red_Viper
Profile Blog Joined August 2013
19533 Posts
July 09 2017 12:34 GMT
#45
I am actually not 100% sure who you mean haha. I would guess it's Life

Well everybody has a vague subjective idea without looking at all the data, personally i think players like Life, Mvp, soO, Zest, Innovation could all be fairly close in a possible ranking.
A lot will depend on the proleague points in the end, what do you guys think about it? How important should it really be in comparison?
IU | Sohyang || There is no God and we are his prophets | For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.” | Ignorance is the parent of fear |
opisska
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Poland8852 Posts
July 09 2017 12:58 GMT
#46
I meant Innovation. The fact that you don't get it increases my faith in tge fairness of your ranking

I don't think that there is an objective way to assign points to proleague. Make it a free parameter and for each value with a reasonable step sum for all top 20 players the number of ranks shifted by including the proleague, then pick a value that gives you something desirable, say 40.
"Jeez, that's far from ideal." - Serral, the king of mild trashtalk
TL+ Member
The_Red_Viper
Profile Blog Joined August 2013
19533 Posts
July 09 2017 13:08 GMT
#47
Yeah there is no "objective" way to pretty much assign any of the point values, the best i can hope for is a "reasonable" system.
In general i don't wanna "fine tune" values based on the end result though, that would basically mean my own bias isn't happy with the result and wants to change it. That seems flawed.
But yeah proleague will be interesting, as i said somewhere else already, nerfign the old kespa ranking relative value seems to be a good idea. But in general proleague will count for quite a bit, i think it was important in the sc2 scene, in fact so important that proleague players would regularly not be able to go to other events.
IU | Sohyang || There is no God and we are his prophets | For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.” | Ignorance is the parent of fear |
opisska
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Poland8852 Posts
July 09 2017 13:11 GMT
#48
If you fine tune in a similar way as I suggested, you can predetermine the conditions beforehand and no bias can be applied
"Jeez, that's far from ideal." - Serral, the king of mild trashtalk
TL+ Member
The_Red_Viper
Profile Blog Joined August 2013
19533 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-07-09 13:21:28
July 09 2017 13:17 GMT
#49
Fair enough, just making a general point because i have seen the notion that certain positions "have to be" certain players otherwise the ranking would be bad, etc. That seems flawed to me.
IU | Sohyang || There is no God and we are his prophets | For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.” | Ignorance is the parent of fear |
ejozl
Profile Joined October 2010
Denmark3532 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-07-15 11:54:45
July 15 2017 11:53 GMT
#50
When you say Kespa Rankings, do you mean the player with the most wins is highest?

I think it's tough, since players are fielded at a different rate. As an example herO was an extremely important player for CJ.Entus and so compared to a player on a more stacked team, I can easily see rankings favour him. Then again being on a team that gets far into the tournament also give you more chances to perform.
I also feel like all-killing should get you a small bonus, but then again you can argue that if RyunG hadn't all-killed this VSL, mb INnoVation would've.
Would love to hear what you find out regarding this.
SC2 Archon needs "Terrible, terrible damage" as one of it's quotes.
The_Red_Viper
Profile Blog Joined August 2013
19533 Posts
July 15 2017 13:17 GMT
#51
No i am talking about this ranking here: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/524480-using-the-kespa-ranking-formula-to-judge-players

Basically a system kespa used to rank players in the bw era. They included proleague and it was basically 1:1 in importance with individual leagues.
IU | Sohyang || There is no God and we are his prophets | For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.” | Ignorance is the parent of fear |
ToToRo87
Profile Joined June 2011
Greece8 Posts
September 11 2017 19:28 GMT
#52
That's a great idea tbh, it will be nice to quantify the whole GOAT system a tad and + Show Spoiler +
prove stuchiu right

Anyways, I will propose an alternative system that just came to me while brainstorming. It's not perfect, it's just an idea that I have but if it sounds appealing we can think it through, discuss it and go for a few test runs in order to see if it reflects perfect sense.

The core of the idea is a standard statistical calibration: every player starts with a base score, I'd go for 1. Then every tournament in chronological order will acquire a tier list based on the mean + outlier of the participants (values to be regulated, let's call that variable T) and every win will award/discard an amount of points that reflect the point system between the two players (in a way standard ELO), regulated by a factor for a bo1,3,5,7 series and the aforementioned variable T.

Of course some tiers will have to be assigned, especially in the beginning (Fruitdealer anyone?) but in the long run where the points of the players reflect an greater sample of games (and thus, more accurate) I believe it will be representative.

It might not make any sense, as I'm about to go to bed now, but I hope I came through with my blueprint. Lemme know if it strikes your fancy!

P.S. I know I have a low post count, I'm your typical lurker (pun intended). Please don't take this into consideration! :D
virpi
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Germany3599 Posts
September 11 2017 20:48 GMT
#53
It's kinda hard to name a GOAT, because of the 2 expansions. For each iteration of the game it gets easy:
WoL: Mvp, no doubt here.
HotS: Life, also no real doubt. (sOs and Innovation are contenders, though)

As for LotV, it gets harder. Nobody has really dominated the korean scene. Stats, Inno, Ty have put up some nice results. Overall, I think it's a close call between Mvp and Life. Both have won lots of big tournaments and both have been dominant in their prime.

A good possibility to calculate the GOAT would be raw ELO. (peak / consistency)
first we make expand, then we defense it.
opisska
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Poland8852 Posts
September 11 2017 20:53 GMT
#54
Elo is not an abbreviation, but a name of an acutal person an thus should never be written "ELO".
"Jeez, that's far from ideal." - Serral, the king of mild trashtalk
TL+ Member
ToToRo87
Profile Joined June 2011
Greece8 Posts
September 12 2017 06:12 GMT
#55
On September 12 2017 05:53 opisska wrote:
Elo is not an abbreviation, but a name of an acutal person an thus should never be written "ELO".


It's done to differentiate the person from the ranking system, no salt needed.
Poopi
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France13012 Posts
September 12 2017 10:07 GMT
#56
Stephano is the GOAT imo.
No other player was able to change the paradigm of the game that much in spite of being in a bad environment with much worse players.
Basically he shadow played sc2 to top KR level.
WriterMaru
Mun_Su
Profile Joined December 2012
France2063 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-30 12:05:53
October 30 2017 12:03 GMT
#57
Poopi I can totaly agree with this :D

The_Red_Viper: does winrate count ? since last decembre INnoVation is at 79% overall winrate in offline (in matches, not game played), 89% TvZ, 74% TvP and 71% TvT (50% from the start of 2017 to may, and something like 92% since june)

Who ever came close to this in a year ?
INno <3 - TY - Maru - Taeja - Rain <3 - Classic <3 - Stephano <3 - soO <3 - Soulkey - Dark - SERRAL =O / END REGION LOCK
Prev 1 2 3 All
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
Next event in 2h 22m
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
PiGStarcraft531
mouzHeroMarine 382
ProTech94
UpATreeSC 65
MindelVK 17
StarCraft: Brood War
Britney 21571
Shuttle 2322
Larva 320
Rush 204
Hyuk 56
hero 55
sSak 33
Sexy 16
yabsab 14
scan(afreeca) 14
Dota 2
qojqva4931
Counter-Strike
fl0m6373
x6flipin793
Heroes of the Storm
XaKoH 134
Other Games
singsing1568
FrodaN924
Beastyqt708
ceh9355
B2W.Neo256
ArmadaUGS144
Grubby92
Rex22
[ Show 18 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• StrangeGG 59
• mYiSmile118
• Reevou 5
• IndyKCrew
• Migwel
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Kozan
StarCraft: Brood War
• Michael_bg 11
• Pr0nogo 2
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
• BSLYoutube
League of Legends
• Nemesis2162
• imaqtpie775
• TFBlade667
• Shiphtur523
Other Games
• WagamamaTV260
Upcoming Events
OSC
2h 22m
Replay Cast
6h 22m
Escore
16h 22m
PiG Sty Festival
18h 22m
ByuN vs HeRoMaRinE
ShoWTimE vs Zoun
Big Brain Bouts
22h 22m
Nicoract vs Neeb
TriGGeR vs ShoWTimE
CranKy Ducklings
1d 16h
PiG Sty Festival
1d 18h
herO vs Krystianer
Solar vs Cure
IPSL
1d 22h
Sparkling Tuna Cup
2 days
PiG Sty Festival
2 days
Maru vs Shameless
Reynor vs TriGGeR
[ Show More ]
IPSL
2 days
OSC
3 days
Afreeca Starleague
3 days
Rush vs Hm
Bisu vs Shuttle
WardiTV Weekly
3 days
The Patches Monday
3 days
Afreeca Starleague
4 days
Sharp vs Shinee
Action vs Shine
PiGosaur Cup
5 days
Replay Cast
5 days
Afreeca Starleague
5 days
BeSt vs Paralyze
Jaedong vs Speed
Kung Fu Cup
5 days
The PondCast
6 days
KCM Race Survival
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

Proleague 2026-08-12
CranK Gathers Season 4: BW vs SC2 Team League
Eternal Conflict S2 Finale

Ongoing

KCM Race Survival 2026 Season 3
K-JUNGMAN
Acropolis #5
RSL Revival: Season 6
PiG Sty Festival 8.0
Esports World Cup 2026
Esports World Cup 2026: LCQ
BLAST Bounty Summer 2026
BLAST Bounty Summer Qual
Stake Ranked Episode 3
XSE Pro League 2026
IEM Cologne Major 2026

Upcoming

Escore Tournament S3: W7
CSLAN 4
ASL Season 22
Escore Tournament S3: W8
Acropolis #5 - TRS
Blizzard Classic Cup 2026
Acropolis #5 - GSA
HSC XXX
SC4ALL II: StarCraft II
Kung Fu Cup 2026 Grand Finals
RSL Offline Finals
Big Dog Cup 2026 Div 1
META DYMY #4
PGL Masters Bucharest 2026
Thunderpick World Champ.
ESL Pro League Season 24
Stake Ranked Episode 4
1win Private Club #1
Logitech G Connect 2026
SL StarSeries Fall 2026
FISSURE Playground #5
BLAST Open Fall 2026
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2026 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.