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I wanted to do a visual representation of the general career trajectory of all three match-ups of Flash, Jaedong, and Bisu. It will be the career win rates of these three players when they played against the three races found in Brood War, at four different points of their careers:
1) Exactly one-year after their debut match in that match-up.
2) The point where they had their lowest career win rate in the match-up after having one-year's worth of experience.
3) The point where they had their highest career win rate in the match-up after having one-year's worth of experience. If their win percentage never has a moment where it drops below the initial starting point, the win percentage and date from the start will be recorded instead.
4) The last ever game they played in the match-up, basically their final career win percentage at the match-up.
I used TLPD for the records, which is a great source of information, but unforunately is by no means complete, especially for the earlier years of professional Brood War. I chose TLPD over the database provided by YGOSU because TLPD differentiates professionals from amateur players (that these players played against in tournaments such as WCG). TLPD's records for the three players in question are not totally accurate because it fails to take into record the last ever offline qualifiers for Tving OGN StarLeague, the match records for which are no where to be found in the YGOSU database as well.
In case you don't believe me, this is one game from those offline qualifiers (2012-03-31) where Bisu beat Bb.yong 2-0, before eventuallly losing to RorO 1-2, which is why Bisu wasn't there for the last ever OGN StarLeague.
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So Bisu's records (Flash and Jaedong did not participate in this qualifier due to being seeded) in the offline qualifiers will be added in, which will make Bisu's overall career win rate in PvT and PvZ slightly different from TLPD's records in case you wanted to check the numbers.
Flash
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Flash was always beast-like in the mirror match-up, except for a brief window of time in 2008 when he could be taken down by rivaling terran players such as Firebathero, or ForGG. 2008 as a year, despite giving Flash his first ever championship title, was not that fruitful for Flash in terms of developing as a dominant player. Flash recovered his 70% career win rate in 2009, but reciprocated between being above or below 70% for quite some time, before securing that thresh-hold for sure by the end of 2009, and keeping it that way until the professional Brood War ended.
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Flash was famous for being the "Bionic Genius" during his amateur days, and lived up to the name with great results versus the zerg race initially. However, he hit a rough patch in 2008 when he kept losing to numerous zerg players such as GGPlay, Jaedong, and Yellow[Name]. He recovered from the rough patch, and with the help of some meta-game revolutions that FanTaSy discovered, raised his performance against the zerg race to heights he never reached previously, before having his peak cut prematurely due to the end of professional Brood War. From mid-2011 to mid-2012, Flash was able to maintain a career record above 70% for more than a year.
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Flash never had a point in his career where his overall win rate went below the win rate presented at the chosen starting off point of early 2008, and had slowly raised his win rate until it went above 70% for a moment in time in 2011, before settling at a career win rate of 67.85%. Terran-versus-protoss match-up was the only match-up Flash failed to maintain a win rate above 70% by the end of his career.
Jaedong
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Jaedong started-off with relatively humble beginnings, having a good, steady performance during the first year of his career, but nothing mind-blowing. He then picked up the pace massively after a rough start to 2007, his break-out year, and finally hit his career peak after dismantling Flash in dominating fashion in GomTV MSL Season 4 round of eight in early 2008. His career win rate would not deviate too much from that point on.
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Jaedong showed his promise in the mirror match-up from the get-go, and wouldn't slow down one bit, until he dominated the match-up in an unprecedented fashion with an insane career win rate of 80.0% in mid-2009, making the most out of the masses of zerg-versus-zerg match-up the previously unseen scheduling Shinhan 2008/2009 ProLeague provided. He would slowly lose his iron grip over the match-up over the years, losing numerous key best-of-five series to rival zerg players such as Calm, Hydra, and ZerO which severely limited his chances of expanding his trophy case, until his career win percentage dropped to a more mortal number of 72.69% by the end of his career.
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Jaedong wasn't a player known for his zerg-versus-protoss abilities initially, but he started to pick up the pace when he starting to win titles left and right in late 2007, and eventually hit his peak in 2010, when he had that 15 game win-streak versus the protoss race. His career win rate would only go above 70% for a brief moment in time before settling on a career win rate of 67.83%.
Bisu
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Bisu, back when he was a rookie, was a protoss known for exceptional macro-management. He started to have a terrible down-swing in the match-up, plummeting his record to 55.65%, which was incredibly detrimental to his individual league career considering this was when Bisu was making it furthest into the bracket stages. Bisu was frequently being knocked out of various tournament at the hands of terran players such as Mind, Iris, Flash, and ForGG. He would slowly recover his numbers with great ProLeague performances over the years, but his best days of protoss-versus-terran prowess was cut short by the termination of professional Brood War.
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Bisu had excellent results in the match-up even before his fateful finals versus sAviOr, and would raise his results past 70% in 2007, but struggled to keep up with the adaptation made by the zerg race by the end of the year, and hit rock bottom in 2008, showing signs of a failed transfer by SK Telecom T1, before striking back with a vengeance, and recovering his excellent record versus zerg record with good ProLeague performances.
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Bisu wasn't a natural at the match-up to begin with, but starting with the golden era of the "Six Dragons" that began towards the latter half of 2008, when all the top protoss players would dominate the top placements in individual leagues, Bisu turned it all around, proving himself to be the king of all the dragons with superb results in the mirror match-up. He would thwart numerous attempts from wannabe leaders of the "Six Dragons" such as free, or JangBi in multiple best-of-five series, and kept up the pace in the ProLeague also. He may have lacked individual league performance, but kept providing good results in the ProLeague to retain his career win rate of 63.21%.
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Some legendary match-ups of various players for comparison. Since I am using TLPD, and some of the records are from players with massive, long-lasting careers, I simply cannot check individual games out for error like I sometimes can for the more modern day players, so the records I list below may be inaccurate, or incomplete.
The four points I listed in the post above, will be listed in chronological order. Whereas all of Flash, Jaedong, and Bisu rock bottom performances preceded their absolute peaks, it may not be so for some of the players I am about to list.
NaDa's terran-versus-terran match-up
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NaDa was an unstoppable force since his debut in the match-up in early 2001, maintaining a win rate above 70% for more than three years, before eventually succumbing to the next wave of terran superstars, namely his nemesis, iloveoov.
Flash reciprocated between having a career record of slightly above, or below 70% for the majority of 2009, before finally staying comfortably above 70% for slightly less than three years before his career was cut short. Flash probably would have broken NaDa's record of 1194 days of being having a terran-versus-terran career record above 70%, because Flash was 1000 days into having a career record versus terrans above 70%, and unless he messed up like having a ten-game losing streak, Flash's record would have been fine as long as he didn't do too badly during the following 200 days or so to beat NaDa's record.
iloveoov's terran-versus-zerg match-up
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iloveoov maintained a win rate above 70% for almost the entirety of his career, only dropping the ball at the very end of his career in late 2007, when he decided to retire as a full-time professional player, and concentrated more on his coaching duties. That is 1471 days of having a career record against a race stay above 70%, which is way above Flash's streak of 461 days. Considering the fact that 2012 was the first year where Flash never struggled to keep his record above 70%, we can assume one of two things, first, that Flash was on a upswing, and he could have beaten iloveoov's record, or if we imagine such things, assuming there was a healthy influx of new recruits (which was not the case), Flash probably would have failed to beat the record even if he was on a roll versus the zerg race when the professional scene ended.
iloveoov's terran-versus-protoss match-up
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iloveoov got off to a great start, having a career win rate of 80% against protoss a year after his debut, but after his replays and play-style was analyzed, his win rate steadily dropped, until his best-of-five defeat versus Reach in 2005 knocked down his win rate below 70%, from which he never truly regained his past form. It's still 637 days of being a deadly force against the protoss race, Flash best record during his career was 81 days, beyond which he couldn't sustain that level of domination, so I think it's a stretch to say that Flash would have beaten iloveoov's record here.
EffOrt's zerg-versus-terran match-up
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Probably the reason why EffOrt is so highly rated. EffOrt brought class to the match-up once again, masterfully dancing around the terran race with the kind of grace only the likes of YellOw, or sAviOr during their primes showcased. EffOrt has achieved the highest career win rate versus terran as a zerg player to my knowledge with a peak of 72.22%, but ironically this win rate was achieved just before he got shutout by Iris in a best-of-five in the semi-finals of GomTV Classic Season 3. His actual win rate when he won versus Flash was more or less his overall career win rate, 63.3%.
ChoJJa's zerg-versus-protoss match-up
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There's a reason why there was a saying that "ChoJJa loses maybe a single game to a protoss player in a year" in the Korean communities during the mid-2000s. Being gifted at the match-up from the get-go, he was a terror to all protoss players from late-2003 to mid-2005, popularizing the mass sunken and spore colonies with some healthy mix of lurkers to buy time until the economy was healthy enough to pump non-stop hive units from multiple bases. July, sAvior, and Jaedong all had periods where they crushed protoss players with ease, but ChoJJa was superior to them in terms of career win rates in terms of absolute peak when measured by career win percentages.
Nal_rA's protoss-versus-terran match-up
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I wondered if I should pick JangBi, who managed to get a career win rate versus terran of 71.26% in early 2009, but I went with Nal_rA, the man who was deadly against the terran race from mid-2001 to mid-2004. I would agree a lot of his statistics are pretty much padded from lower-tier terran players, but considering that pretty much anybody who managed godly protoss-versus-terran records did it mostly from terrorizing non-top tier terran talent, I think Nal_rA is a good candidate as any.
Stork's protoss-versus-protoss match-up
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Stork was by far the best protoss-versus-protoss player that ever existed from his debut due to his excellence micro-management until 2007. However, his prized match-up failed him in that fateful GomTV MSL Season 2 finals versus Bisu, despite almost everyone thinking that Stork was the better of the two in the mirror match-up at the time. Furthermore, his mirror match-up diminished with each passing season, until one day he had to give his throne of the ultimate protoss-versus-protoss player to Bisu. Sadly, Stork's most prized match-up would fail him a record four times in a best-of-five series (only matched by Nal_rA, who also was considered excellent at the match-up).
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As a side note, I did not bother comparing Jaedong's mirror match-up, and Bisu's protoss-versus-zerg with anyone else because I felt it was a worthless endeavor.
In case people are wondering, of course, I am aware of the fallacies depending solely on win percentages can lead to, no single metric of measurement of player's achievements can be all-encompassing.
For example, I'll give two imaginary players under this specific scenario, that isn't that unlikely to happen.
1) Player A is a decent player who is good enough to beat mediocre players, but can never beat top class players.
Player A qualifies for the OGN StarLeague.
-> Player A gets into an easy group, and goes 3-0 in the group stages
-> Player A faces a great player (not top class) who finished second in his group, in the round of eight, and loses 1-2
-> Player A has a win rate of 66.67% in this OGN StarLeague
2) Player B is a great player who is good enough to beat mediocre players, and can sometimes beat a top class player.
Player B qualifies for the OGN StarLeague.
-> Player B gets a slightly harder group, and goes 2-1 in the group stages, with a top class player topping the group.
-> Player B faces Player A (not top class) who finished first in his group, in the round of eight, and wins 2-1
-> Player B faces a top class player in the semi-finals, and loses 0-3
-> Player B has a win rate of 44.44% in this OGN StarLeague
Player B knocks Player A out of the tournament, finishes above him in the standings, but the consequences of Player B being good enough to face a top class player is not rewarded in terms of win percentages.
Win percentages aren't everything, but it also is not a worthless metric. There is a reason why great performances and results are always rewarded with good win percentages, even if the reverse is not true.
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I feel awed at the sight of iloveoov's win percentages. If say, a zerg player back then were to think, "how do you beat a guy with a 90% win rate?" It must have been really hard to imagine victory unless you were July.
Nal_rA's PvT is severely underrated due to the rampant labeling the community gave the 3 Kings (rA->vZ, Kingdom->vP, Reach->vT) but when I went digging up stuff about them, they were more all-around great in all three matchups.
ChoJJa was so good wtf o.o. It's a shame he had to deal with NaDa a lot in the finals during their primes.
I remember reading a thread, albeit an ancient one that compared Stork to Kingdom due to their affinity to the PvP matchup but I never looked at the stats or anything. To me, Stork was great at PvP but his real genius has always been versus Terran. But now I think I have taken a new perspective. I guess his skills truly are one half of why Bisu vs Stork matches are so good.
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On July 16 2017 21:49 c3rberUs wrote:
I feel awed at the sight of iloveoov's win percentages. If say, a zerg player back then were to think, "how do you beat a guy with a 90% win rate?" It must have been really hard to imagine victory unless you were July.
Nal_rA's PvT is severely underrated due to the rampant labeling the community gave the 3 Kings (rA->vZ, Kingdom->vP, Reach->vT) but when I went digging up stuff about them, they were more all-around great in all three matchups.
ChoJJa was so good wtf o.o. It's a shame he had to deal with NaDa a lot in the finals during their primes.
I remember reading a thread, albeit an ancient one that compared Stork to Kingdom due to their affinity to the PvP matchup but I never looked at the stats or anything. To me, Stork was great at PvP but his real genius has always been versus Terran. But now I think I have taken a new perspective. I guess his skills truly are one half of why Bisu vs Stork matches are so good.
I was talking about upsets in some other thread, when I realized that some of the best players in history in terms of career win rate proceeded to get their asses kicked in a best-of-five setting. I wanted to expand on that idea, and see how the win percentage of various legendary players fluctuated over the years.
I mean some of the most ridiculous win rates are followed by embarrassing best-of-five defeats on a big stage. iloveoov, after hitting a career win rate of nearly 89.8%, lost two best-of-five series in a row to July. Both ChoJJa and sAviOr had career win rates that someone like July never managed to achieve (the difference isn't large, but it's still notable), but that didn't help them one bit as they lost iconic best-of-five series to Reach, and Bisu, respectively. EffOrt achieved what no zerg had done before in 2009, getting a career win rate over 70% when he had over seventy games under his belt, but that didn't seem to matter when Iris butt-fucked him 3-0 in the semi-finals of GomTV Classic Season 3.
It's hard to achieve ridiculous numbers without some padding. Nal_rA had the highest career win rate versus terran players in history early on his career, but once he was competing aginst the likes of iloveoov, and NaDa on a regular basis, he couldn't sustain that level of success versus terran players. EffOrt's actual tangible success as a player came in 2010, when his career win rate was no where near what it used to be, when he was having a cute win streak versus players who were decent, but nothing special.
In the grand scale of things, winning the OGN StarLeague, probably the most prestigious single championship in the scene, if you happen to be working your way up from the very bottom, will require maybe twenty or twenty-one victories (6 for the offline prelimaries, 4 for the round of 36, 2 or 3 for the round of 16, 2 for the round of 8, and 3 for the round of 4, and 3 for the finals), and if you happen to be seeded, you would only need to win eight or nine games to win another title. You could get knocked out in the round of 16 with a score of 1-2, but you only need to All-Kill the shitty fodder that is Air Force ACE twice in the ProLeague to have a win rate that probably is superior to an OGN StarLeague champion who might have taken those two weeks of fodder schedule off to prepare for some real competition.
Most of the insanely high win rates seen in history are mostly reliant on the availability of fodder schedule. For example, Jaedong's overall career win percentage was helped more by the undefeated streak he had against the fodder team that was WeMade Fox (Jaedong had a record of 20-0 against them between 2009 and 2011), than any single championship Jaedong had won in that period of time. However, while such a record is remarkable, and is definitely of note, I think most will concur that just because Jaedong was better at crushing the dreams of WeMade Fox better than any player in history, that ability alone doesn't necessarily transfer over to real trophies.
Like I said, win percentages aren't worthless metrics, but this blog's purpose is mainly to invoke conversation, rather than being a list of match-ups of players I consider to be the best of all time in a particular match-up. For example, I consider Stork to be the greatest protoss-versus-terran player of all time, even if during Nal_rA's first five years of his career, he maintained a career win rate versus terran players that Stork never bested once during his entire career.
I also think Bisu is a greater protoss-versus-protoss player than Stork, even though Bisu never even got close to the career win percentage Stork once had in his career, because even when the difference between Stork and Bisu was at its greatest (because Bisu found greater success in the match-up than Stork since 2008), Stork's 71.15% career win rate versus protoss that towered over Bisu's mirror match-up win rate of 60%, ultimately failed to deliver him the championship. That game score of 3-2 in favour of Bisu may only be one game difference in what is essentially a meaningless statistic in their careers that both had literally hundreds of games played overall, but that one game is the reason why Bisu is remembered as a three time champion, and Stork a silver-surfer, instead of both being remembered as a two time champion with different strengths at the game. When Bisu was delivering the goods in protoss-versus-protoss, he was able to convert that good form into meaningful achievements, by reigning supreme as the king of the Six Dragons when we had a plethora of protoss-versus-protoss series to decide the championship title.
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I'd like to complement the above information, with some comparison of how Flash, Jaedong, and Bisu performed under a best-of-five setting. While solely relying on these are a fault in itself as well, it does generally weed out the statistics-padding schedule, considering best-of-fives tend to be only played under very specific circumstances.
Flash versus terran in a best-of-five setting
+ Show Spoiler +1. GomTV Pre-Season Invitational finals versus Mind: 3-1 victory
2. Arena MSL quarter-finals versus Lomo: 3-2 victory
3. Arena MSL semi-finals versus ForGG: 1-3 defeat
4. GomTV Classic Season 3 finals versus Iris: 3-0 victory
5. Hana Daetoo MSL quarter-finals versus MVP: 3-1 victory
6. BigFile MSL quarter-finals versus ForGG: 3-0 victory
7. BigFile MSL semi-finals versus FanTaSy: 3-2 victory
8. ABCMart MSL quarter-finals versus Leta: 3-1 victory
9. Tving OGN StarLeague semi-finals versus FanTaSy: 0-3 defeat
Success in a best-of-five setting: 7-2 (77.78%)
Overall record in a best-of-five setting: 22-13 (62.86%)
Comment: Although Flash was near unstoppable against the terran race for the vast majority of his career, his record in a best-of-five setting isn't as impressive, struggling the most against FanTaSy, who gave him a lot of trouble towards the end of his career.
Flash versus zerg in a best-of-five setting
+ Show Spoiler +1. Daum OGN StarLeague semi-finals versus GGPlay: 2-3 defeat
2. GomTV MSL quarter-finals versus Jaedong: 1-3 defeat
3. GomTV Classic Season 1 finals versus Jaedong: 0-3 defeat
4. GomTV Classic Season 3 semi-finals versus July: 3-0 victory
5. EVER 2009 OGN StarLeauge semi-finals versus Calm: 3-1 victory
6. NATE MSL semi-finals versus Kwanro: 3-1 victory
7. NATE MSL finals versus Jaedong: 3-1 defeat
8. Korean Air OGN StarLeague Season 1 finals versus EffOrt: 2-3 defeat
9. Hana Daetoo MSL finals versus Jaedong: 3-0 victory
10. BigFile MSL finals versus Jaedong: 3-2 victory
11. Korean Air OGN StarLeague Season 2 finals versus Jaedong: 3-1 victory
12. ABCMart MSL semi-finals versus Hydra: 3-0 victory
13. ABCMart MSL finals versus ZerO: 3-0 victory
14. Tving OGN StarLeague quarter-finals versus Shine: 3-1 victory
Success in a best-of-five setting: 9-5 (64.29%)
Overall record in a best-of-five setting: 33-21 (61.11%)
Comment: Flash struggled the most against the zerg race in a best-of-five setting, mainly because Jaedong had his number in a best-of-five setting during the earlier stages of his career, something which he overcame in spectacular fashion later on, but it still wasn't enough to establiash a one sided record.
Flash versus protoss in a best-of-five setting
+ Show Spoiler +1. Daum OGN StarLeague 3rd/4th place decider versus Stork: 0-3 defeat
2. GomTV Invitational semi-finals versus Anytime: 3-1 victory
3. Bacchus 2008 OGN StarLeague semi-finals versus Flash: 3-1 victory
4. GomTV Invitational finals versus Stork: 3-2 victory
5. Bacchus 2008 OGN StarLeague finals versus Stork: 3-0 victory
6. GomTV Classic Season 1 semi-finals verus BackHo: 3-0 victory
7. NATE MSL quarter-finals versus BeSt: 3-0 victory
8. EVER 2009 OGN StarLeague finals versus Movie: 3-1 victory
9. Korean Air OGN StarLeague Season 1 semi-finals versus Pure: 3-0 victory
10. Hana Daetoo MSL semi-finals versus free: 3-0 victory
11. Korean Air OGN StarLeague Season 2 semi-finals versus free: 3-1 victory
Success in a best-of-five setting: 10-1 (90.91%)
Overall record in a best-of-five setting: 30-9 (76.92%)
Comment: Contrary to his overall win rate, Flash found the most success against the protoss race by some distance, being undefeated against the protoss race in ten consecutive best-of-five series.
Jaedong versus terran in a best-of-five setting
+ Show Spoiler +1. EVER 2007 OGN StarLeague semi-finals versus UpMagic: 3-0 victory
2. GomTV MSL Season 3 semi-finals versus Mind: 3-1 victory
3. GomTV MSL Season 4 quarter-finals versus Flash: 3-1 victory
4. Arena MSL quarter-finals versus Hwasin: 3-1 victory
5. Arena MSL finals versus ForGG: 0-3 defeat
6. GomTV Classic Season 1 finals versus Flash: 3-0 victory
7. Batoo OGN StarLeague finals versus FanTaSy: 3-2 victory
8. Avalon MSL quarter-finals versus Canata: 3-2 victory
9. Bacchus 2009 OGN StarLeague semi-finals versus FanTaSy: 3-1 victory
10. NATE MSL finals versus Flash: 3-1 victory
11. Hana Daetoo MSL quarter-finals versus Midas: 3-1 victory
12. Hana Daetoo MSL finals versus Flash: 0-3 defeat
13. BigFile MSL quarter-finals versus Sea: 3-1 victory
14. BigFile MSL semi-finals versus Light: 3-2 victory
15. BigFile MSL finals versus Flash: 2-3 defeat
16. Korean Air OGN StarLeague finals versu Flash: 1-3 defeat
Success in a best-of-five setting: 12-4 (75%)
Overall record in a best-of-five setting: 39-25 (60.94%)
Comment: Flash ruined Jaedong's near flawless record, probably more so than Jaedong ruined his.
Jaedong versus zerg in a best-of-five setting
+ Show Spoiler +1. Batoo OGN StarLeague semi-finals versus By.HerO: 3-0 victory
2. Avalon MSL semi-finals versus Calm: 1-3 defeat
3. Bacchus 2009 OGN StarLeague versus Yellow[Name]: 3-0 victory
4. Hana Daetoo MSL semi-finals versus Calm: 3-1 victory
5. PDPop MSL semi-finals versus Hydra: 2-3 defeat
6. ABCMart semi-finals versus ZerO: 1-3 defeat
Success in a best-of-five setting: 3-3 (50%)
Overall record in a best-of-five setting: 13-10 (56.52%)
Comment: Perhaps the greatest player of all time in a single match-up in terms of statistics is humbled in a best-of-five setting.
Jaedong versus protoss in a best-of-five setting
+ Show Spoiler +1. OGN 2007 Star Challenge Season 1 finals versus TheROCK[3.33]: 1-3 defeat
2. EVER 2007 OGN StarLeague finals versus Stork: 3-1 victory
3. GomTV MSL Season 4 finals versus Kal: 3-1 victory
4. Arena MSL semi-finals versus Much: 3-0 victory
5. GomTV Classic Season 1 semi-finals versus Shuttle: 3-0 victory
6. GomTV Classic Special Match versus Bisu: 3-2 victory
7. NATE MSL quarter-finals versus Stats: 3-0 victory
8. NATE MSL semo-finals versus Kal: 3-0 victory
9. Korean Air OGN StarLeague Season 2 semi-finals versus Stork: 3-2 victory
10. PDPop MSL quarter-finals versus SnOw: 3-2 victory
11. ABCMart MSL quarter-finals versus Grape: 3-1 victory
Success in a best-of-five setting: 10-1 (90.91%)
Overall record in a best-of-five setting: 31-12 (72.09%)
Comment: Jaedong's abilities versus protoss players in a best-of-five setting is eerily similar to how Flash performed against them.
Bisu versus terran in a best-of-five setting
1. GomTV MSL Season 2 quarter-finals versus Hwasin: 3-2 victory
2. GomTV MSL Season 3 semi-finals versus XellOs: 3-1 victory
3. GomTV MSL Season 3 finals versus Mind: 1-3 defeat
4. EVER 2007 OGN StarLeague 3rd/4th place decider versus UpMagic: 3-2 victory
5. Bacchus 2008 OGN StarLeague semi-finals versus Flash: 1-3 defeat
6. Clubday MSL quarter-finals versus Firebathero: 3-0 victory
7. GomTV Classic Season 2 semi-finals versus sKyHigh: 3-0 victory
8. Batoo OGN StarLeague semi-finals versus FanTaSy: 0-3 defeat
9. Avalon MSL quarter-finals versus Iris: 2-3 defeat
Success in a best-of-five setting: 5-4 (55.56%)
Overall record in a best-of-five setting: 19-17 (52.78%)
Comment: Lives up to the lower expectations set for Bisu.
Bisu versus zerg in a best-of-five setting
+ Show Spoiler +1. GomTV MSL Season 1 finals versus sAviOr: 3-0 victory
2. GomTV MSL Season 2 semi-finals versus GoRush: 3-1 victory
3. GomTV MSL Season 3 quarter-finals versus Kwanro: 3-0 victory
4. GomTV Classic Special Match versus Jaedong: 2-3 defeat
Success in a best-of-five setting: 3-1 (75%)
Overall record in a best-of-five setting: 11-4 (73.3%)
Comment: Lives up to the high reputation Bisu has in the match-up.
Bisu versus protoss in a best-of-five setting
+ Show Spoiler +1. GomTV MSL Season 1 semi-finals versus Nal_rA: 3-0 victory
2. GomTV MSL Season 2 finals versus Stork: 3-2 victory
3. EVER 2007 OGN StarLeague semi-finals versus Stork: 0-3 defeat
4. Clubday MSL semi-finals versus free: 3-1 victory
5. Clubday MSL finals versus JangBi: 3-1 victory
6. GomTV Classic Season 2 finals versus JangBi: 3-1 victory
7. IEF 2011 finals versus Stork: 3-2 victory
Success in a best-of-five setting: 6-1 (85.71%)
Overall record in a best-of-five setting: 18-10 (64.29%)
In conclusion, overall career win rates, and success in a best-of-five setting do not have a strong correlation. Flash found most success against protoss players in a best-of-five setting, despite being the least successful with it from an overall win rate point of view. Jaedong's prized match-up of zerg-versus-zerg failed him the most when it mattered in the individual leagues. Bisu is the only player who is remains faithful to his overall win rates, although he tended to be a little more clutch in the protoss-versus-protoss match-up than his overall numbers indicated.
I cannot be arsed to do it for all the other players, but the inconsistency between overall records, and success in a best-of-five setting can be found in a lot of players. EffOrt has a negative record in a best-of-five series versus terran players, iloveoov's mediocre best-of-five record versus zerg does not strike fear into the hearts of his enemies, and Stork has poor track record in best-of-five series, losing four times to three different players (Bisu, Kal, and JangBi).
There has never been a player who has an overall career record against a match-up that is above 70%, as well as sustaining that record in a best-of-five environment. A few has come close, Flash (versus protoss), Jaedong (versu protoss), July (versus protoss), and Bisu (versus zerg).
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