• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EDT 10:11
CEST 16:11
KST 23:11
  • 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 2914Serral 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
Balance hotfix patch 5.0.16b (July 16)20Reynor: GSL Loss Wasn't About Preparation Format16[IPSL] Spring 2026 Grand Finals - This Weekend!5Weekly Cups (July 6 - 12): Protoss strike back12BSL Season 22 Full Overview & Conclusion8
StarCraft 2
General
Balance hotfix patch 5.0.16b (July 16) Reynor: GSL Loss Wasn't About Preparation Format Is the larve respawn broken? 5.0.16 patch for SC2 goes live (8 worker start) BGE Stara Zagora to be held again in June 2025
Tourneys
Master Swan Open (Global Bronze-Master 2) WardiTV Summer Cup 2026 GSL CK #5 Race War RSL Revival: Season 6 - Qualifiers and Main Event HomeStory Cup 29
Strategy
[G] Having the right mentality to improve
Custom Maps
New Map Maker - Looking for Advice - Love or Hate Work In Progress Melee Maps [D]RTS in all its shapes and glory <3
External Content
The PondCast: SC2 News & Results Mutation # 534 Burning Evacuation Mutation # 533 Die Together Mutation # 532 Nuclear Family
Brood War
General
Etiquete rules in Asl? Recommended FPV games (post-KeSPA) Pros Debate: Zerg Unfairly Nerfed? (ASL S22 map) BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/ screpdb: new Starcraft reporting tool
Tourneys
Escore Tournament - Season 3 Small VOD Thread 2.0 [IPSL] Spring 2026 Grand Finals - This Weekend! [Megathread] Daily Proleagues
Strategy
Fighting Spirit mining rates Simple Questions, Simple Answers Creating a full chart of Zerg builds Relatively freeroll strategies
Other Games
General Games
Path of Exile General RTS Discussion Thread Nintendo Switch Thread Beyond All Reason Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread
Dota 2
Looking for a Dota Mentor Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion
League of Legends
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug
TL Mafia
TL Mafia Power Rank NeO.D_StephenKing vs This Guy From 1 Million Dance TL Mafia Community Thread Vanilla Mini Mafia
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread The Games Industry And ATVI Russo-Ukrainian War Thread UK Politics Mega-thread YouTube Thread
Fan Clubs
The IdrA Fan Club The HerO Fan Club!
Media & Entertainment
Movie Discussion! Anime Discussion Thread [Req][Books] Good Fantasy/SciFi books Series you have seen recently...
Sports
2024 - 2026 Football Thread MLB/Baseball 2023 McBoner: A hockey love story Tennis[sport] Formula 1 Discussion
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Simple Questions Simple Answers FPS when play League Of Legend on laptop How to clean a TTe Thermaltake keyboard?
TL Community
Northern Ireland Global Starcraft The Automated Ban List
Blogs
Poker (part 2)
Nebuchad
The Experiences We Want and …
TrAiDoS
An Exploration of th…
waywardstrategy
Gauntlet SC2: A Retrospectiv…
Ctone23
ramps on octagon
StaticNine
Funny Nicknames
LUCKY_NOOB
Evil Gacha Games and the…
ffswowsucks
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 8840 users

The Deepest Team in Proleague - Page 2

Forum Index > BW General
Post a Reply
Prev 1 2 3 Next All
TheNessman
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States4158 Posts
February 23 2012 01:33 GMT
#21
i don't understand that graph ><
~~! youtube.com/xmungam1 !~~
Caihead
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Canada8550 Posts
February 23 2012 01:40 GMT
#22
Just measuring by PL record is quite flawed, a player with a much more formidable resume and hit-list of players who has to play against every match up / map is ranked much lower than a player who is being prepared for single race / map snipes - where the credit should go to the coaching and preparation than the player himself (for instance, bogus is ranked lower than Dear and Calm because he has to play every match up where as dear has had all PvT's and Calm has had all vP and vZ's on chain reaction). Khan is the best performing team because their coaching realized the potential of having specific map / race snipers (look at brave and turn's map list) bring home the additional win(s) outside of their ace players in stork / jangbi. The limited rotations of the map pool means a map sniper can be sent almost every match. Best example is Khan vs Stars in round 2 where ace was brave vs shy, both map snipers on chain reaction, rather than sending Jangbi.

CJ (and to a lesser extent, SKT and Team 8) puts too much expectations on its players being able to play vs any match up on any map, they are sending players dependent on the score / momentum of the match rather than preparing them for specific map snipes. Nearly all of their players have played on every map / match up. When you consider this, CJ / SKT still has the "deeper" line up considering that they are still able to pull out wins vs map / race snipers; but Khan definitely has better coaching and decision making which is much more important in a pro-league (non winners league) format.
"If you're not living in the US or are a US Citizen, please do not tell us how to vote or how you want our country to be governed." - Serpest, American Hero
Bagration
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United States18282 Posts
February 23 2012 01:45 GMT
#23
Cool analysis there. For some reason I expected a poll, not sure why.
Team Slayers, Axiom-Acer and Vile forever
Count9
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
China10928 Posts
February 23 2012 02:22 GMT
#24
Not surprised at all, Khan has KTs number and (minus the 0-3 recently) has been beating everyone. CJ doing terrible is really weird, especially with the Leta pickup and Effort coming back. I don't think anyone predicted CJ doing so poorly.
Louuster
Profile Joined November 2010
Canada2869 Posts
February 23 2012 02:44 GMT
#25
Surprised at how bad CJ is doing because on paper they definitely look like one of the deepest teams, but their performance just doesnt reflect that.
Kim Taek Yong fighting~
Xiphos
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Canada7507 Posts
February 23 2012 02:56 GMT
#26
CJ is like a blind beast, rampaging on every corners. Potentially speaking, the amount of destruction that could be dealt by the beast is at a high force. But without knowing target's direction, its really a hit-or-miss for each match they play.

KHAN is the nimble owl, carefully stalking their prey while camouflaging with the darkness in making up for their lack of muscle. The bird takes extra time to analyze the playing field to determine the best angle to strike at the opposition. This risky mindset can also lead to fatal results of getting humiliated by solid teams. They just have to make sure that they don't get caught with their pants down.

Looks like we got some ying & yang thing going on here.
2014 - ᕙ( •̀ل͜•́) ϡ Raise your bows brood warriors! ᕙ( •̀ل͜•́) ϡ
Hesmyrr
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Canada5776 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-02-23 03:34:48
February 23 2012 03:33 GMT
#27
Pretty interesting analysis, also would be interested to see it being applied to larger sample size later. I want to point out Ace is currently the "deepest" team however.
+ Show Spoiler +
[image loading]
deeper and deeper... T_T
"If watching the MSL finals makes you a progamer, then anyone in Korea can do it." - Ha Tae Ki
TheNessman
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States4158 Posts
February 23 2012 03:40 GMT
#28
On February 23 2012 10:45 Bagration wrote:
Cool analysis there. For some reason I expected a poll, not sure why.

thats interesting hahah

maybe it would've been a poll long , but then everyone had to explain there answers, but i don't think everyone would have written as in depth answers as this guy
~~! youtube.com/xmungam1 !~~
VGhost
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States3621 Posts
February 23 2012 03:57 GMT
#29
On February 23 2012 10:33 TheNessman wrote:
i don't understand that graph ><


The short (and not precisely accurate) version:

The numbers I ran give a value for each player's record which can be thought of as approximating an "equivalent" undefeated record. Flash is the only one I included here whose 13 wins translate directly to a value of 13, because he hasn't lost. Contrast BeSt, whose 9 wins are offset by 7 losses... but those 9 wins really do matter, so he rates out around 5.

The orange "players" graphs represent the sum of all players' values on the given team. But the biggest problem is that my number just generates "0", no matter how many games you lose, until you win a game, and then no matter how bad you are you get a rating that's at least a little positive. In reality, the record of players like Grape (0-4) or HoeJJa's (2-5) have what's really a negative effect on the overall team record. So the team bar (blue) is shorter; how much shorter relatively indicates I'm not really sure what, but I offered some guesses. My current hypothesis is that the difference reflects how well teams manage whatever players they do have.

If you're still curious, PM me and I can give you a fuller rundown of what I'm calculating, why I think it's reasonably accurate, and what I think it "means".
#4427 || I am not going to scan a ferret.
pappelee
Profile Joined April 2010
China34 Posts
February 23 2012 07:30 GMT
#30
nice
ChriS-X
Profile Joined June 2011
Malaysia1374 Posts
February 23 2012 08:44 GMT
#31
i wish violet was back T.T
shaftofpleasure
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
Korea (North)1375 Posts
February 23 2012 09:10 GMT
#32
Team 8 is the deepest ............

+ Show Spoiler +
in the rankings


-_-
It's either the holes of my nose are getting smaller or my fingers are getting bigger. /// Always Rooting for the Underdog. Hyuk/Sin/Jaehoon/Juni/Hyvva/Hoejja/Canata //// Hiding in thread somewhere where BW is still in it's pure form here on TL.
Heimatloser
Profile Joined March 2009
Germany1494 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-02-26 11:27:31
February 26 2012 11:17 GMT
#33
if you would have done the analysis when kt was on top, they would be the deepest team.
stupid and biased post.

edit: second paragraph just reflects proleague results, too. non more and non less
third paragraph makes me angry, since i have no clue wtf you talking about. so you are comparing "the number"? which number? 42? also the, graph, what does it mean? you could at least give us some hints so that non psychic ppl also can follow your thought, like naming the god-damn axes...
All what KT currently needs is a Zerg and a second Terran
Bill Murray
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States9292 Posts
February 26 2012 11:32 GMT
#34
I would imagine you should analyze number of players fielded in relation to the % shared regarding playtime, while also balancing it out with overall efficiency
University of Kentucky Basketball #1
flamewheel
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
FREEAGLELAND26782 Posts
February 26 2012 12:35 GMT
#35
Always enjoy these threads, VGhost. Keep them up.
Writerdamn, i was two days from retirement
intotheheart
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Canada33091 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-02-26 13:00:56
February 26 2012 12:41 GMT
#36
You can say that we've got the deepest team, but I'm curious as to how our terran line holds up.
kiss kiss fall in love
JohannesH
Profile Joined September 2009
Finland1364 Posts
February 26 2012 16:05 GMT
#37
I don't know if that really is a good measure of depth - having many players place in top 18 is not really a measure of that since having plenty of players with a decent ~50% winrate are what make a deep team. This just tells which has the best performing top players.

Take Khan for example, they're not deep because Stork, Turn, Jangbi and Brave perform so well. They're deep because they've still got Reality, Shine, Roro (+others still) to back them up.
If you have to ask, you don't know.
Soft`Soap
Profile Joined March 2011
Canada865 Posts
February 26 2012 17:27 GMT
#38
I'm inclined to think that it's not a coincidence the top four teams right now are the four teams with the four best players in the game


Very nice analysis
but I just gotta pick on this


it's not a coincidence, there is a direct correlation between the top four teams and the four players with the best record in pro league. This is because the wins from a player help a team win.
MiXyass DjLadyDana SoftSoap RightClick DigicidaL l)H[Zodiak] 58^^
VGhost
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States3621 Posts
February 26 2012 20:03 GMT
#39
On February 26 2012 20:17 Heimatloser wrote:
If you would have done the analysis when kt was on top, they would be the deepest team.


Possibly. They came in #2 anyway. On the other hand, Stars (#7 here) were solidly in 4th when this was written and have to be at least in 5th still despite some epic failures.

On February 26 2012 20:17 Heimatloser wrote:
Second paragraph just reflects proleague results, too. non more and non less.


Yes, I mentioned that so that people could factor that into how seriously they were willing to take the results. Though what else are we supposed to go on right now?

On February 26 2012 20:17 Heimatloser wrote:
...I have no clue [what] you [are] talking about. So you are comparing "the number"? Which number? 42? Also the graph, what does it mean? You could at least give us some hints so that non psychic ppl also can follow your thought, like naming the [] axes...


The number in the initial 18 players I listed is a number generated by a calculation based on wins and games and is right there next to each player's name, with their stats. For the graph, I initially said, "...By comparing the number for the whole team to the numbers put up by each player..." so that the numbers on the graph are on that same scale of calculation. The orange bar is the sum of player values for each team, and the blue is the overall team value, as I explained here when someone else asked the same question.

On February 26 2012 20:32 Bill Murray wrote:
I would imagine you should analyze number of players fielded in relation to the % shared regarding playtime, while also balancing it out with overall efficiency


I'm sure this would improve accuracy in calculating how well a team is managed, but I haven't the vaguest idea how to weight these things and am not sure I want to spend the time working it out. Most teams follow the same pattern anyway: 2-4 players who play almost every match, and then a bunch who rotate through based on maps, recent play, etc. There are sort of two extremes: ACE, and to a lesser extent KHAN and CJ, play almost everybody about equally; on the other end T8 (also Stars and SKT) play the same players pretty much all the time. STX and KT (except Flash) are sort of in the middle. But ACE still plays Kal almost every time and T8 still rotates Killer and Tyson: I called them "extremes" but I'm not sure that term is actually justified.

On February 27 2012 01:05 JohannesH wrote:
I don't know if that really is a good measure of depth - having many players place in top 18 is not really a measure of that since having plenty of players with a decent ~50% winrate are what make a deep team. This just tells which has the best performing top players.

Take Khan for example, they're not deep because Stork, Turn, Jangbi and Brave perform so well. They're deep because they've still got Reality, Shine, Roro (+others still) to back them up.


Yes and no. A team - especially in a short match format like this season's Bo5, though not as much as in a strong man format like Winners League - can't really get by with a bunch of mediocre players. This year's example is, so far, STX. I take depth to mean, "How far down do you have good players?" and we can talk about comparative depth as answering a question like, "If we play my #4 against your #4, who wins?" If KHAN can send Brave up against Canata, for instance, it's bad for the team fielding Canata. Not that upsets don't happen, but in general. And of course the manager of a team is trying to manufacture matchups where Leta plays against Calm and not Shuttle, while Hydra plays Shuttle and not Bogus, and so forth, so we rarely test the "#4 vs #4" proposition - but it's still a big difference in the long run that CJ's number four is Movie and STX's is hyvaa.

On the other hand, a deep team is going to have more good players. When you have more good players not only do those players do well, they do better than they would do against "equal" competition because it's easier for a competent coach to set up more games where Stork's not playing ZerO and winning a tight game but playing Flying and winning without breaking a sweat - padding stats, as it were. The result is that going just off records (which I did here) the deeper team will put more players into the "top results" category.
#4427 || I am not going to scan a ferret.
NB
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Netherlands12045 Posts
February 26 2012 20:24 GMT
#40
Khan has a special way to draft their team where they always secure 'free wins' by sending their decent players vs sniper, sniper vs Ace and Ace vs decent player.

The scale looks like this: Ace>Decent>sniper.

This mean that when they goes up vs KT, they will do their best to avoid jangbi or stork vs flash and use these to snipe decent players like stats instead. Mean while they keep sending out rookie to snipe other team ACE to : 1/promote rookie and give them stage exp. 2/Avoid spending good players on unavoidable loses or uncertain win.

This explain why their players are getting such good w/l record: they were drafted to win, not to 'claim' the win.
Im daed. Follow me @TL_NB
Prev 1 2 3 Next All
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
Epic.LAN
13:00
Epic.LAN 48 Group Stage
Liquipedia
WardiTV Qualifier
12:00
Summer Cup, Qualifier #2
WardiTV735
Liquipedia
CrankTV Team League
11:00
Crank Gathers S4: Group Stage
LiquipediaDiscussion
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
RushiSC 34
StarCraft: Brood War
Calm 7218
Rain 2348
GuemChi 2121
Sea 1862
Jaedong 1113
EffOrt 615
Hyuk 557
Shuttle 501
firebathero 343
Mini 326
[ Show more ]
BeSt 304
Snow 274
Stork 213
Rush 200
Larva 138
Zeus 119
ZerO 109
ggaemo 104
Hyun 84
Sea.KH 76
hero 61
Dewaltoss 58
Free 50
soO 41
scan(afreeca) 38
sorry 37
Sharp 34
JYJ 31
Terrorterran 30
ToSsGirL 26
Sexy 22
Bale 20
Hm[arnc] 17
Barracks 15
NaDa 15
Yoon 14
IntoTheRainbow 13
Sacsri 12
ajuk12(nOOB) 10
Rock 10
Icarus 9
Purpose 7
yabsab 6
Dota 2
Gorgc7080
syndereN236
League of Legends
Doublelift2437
Counter-Strike
byalli755
allub7
Other Games
singsing2208
B2W.Neo850
hiko732
Lowko419
crisheroes329
DeMusliM250
XaKoH 201
ToD148
Liquid`VortiX131
OGKoka 126
djWHEAT107
QueenE44
Trikslyr22
Rex17
ZerO(Twitch)10
Organizations
Other Games
gamesdonequick2480
BasetradeTV206
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
[ Show 14 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• Migwel
• sooper7s
StarCraft: Brood War
• escodisco3510
• BSLYoutube
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
Dota 2
• C_a_k_e 273
League of Legends
• Jankos2576
• TFBlade884
Upcoming Events
Big Brain Bouts
1h 49m
SHIN vs Elazer
Percival vs Nicoract
Reynor vs Lambo
Replay Cast
9h 49m
RSL Revival
18h 49m
Clem vs Lambo
Scarlett vs Cure
CranKy Ducklings
19h 49m
Epic.LAN
22h 49m
IPSL
1d 1h
Dragon vs Hawk
RSL Revival
1d 18h
Classic vs Trap
herO vs SHIN
Sparkling Tuna Cup
1d 19h
OSC
1d 22h
IPSL
2 days
Bonyth vs Ret
[ Show More ]
WardiTV Weekly
2 days
Monday Night Weeklies
3 days
PiGosaur Cup
4 days
The PondCast
4 days
Replay Cast
5 days
CrankTV Team League
5 days
Replay Cast
6 days
CrankTV Team League
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

Proleague 2026-07-13
HSC XXIX
Eternal Conflict S2 E2

Ongoing

IPSL Spring 2026
Acropolis #4
CSL 2026 Summer (S21)
KCM Race Survival 2026 Season 3
Escore Tournament S3: W3
RSL Revival: Season 6
CranK Gathers Season 4: BW vs SC2 Team League
SCTL 2026 Spring
Stake Ranked Episode 3
XSE Pro League 2026
IEM Cologne Major 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 2
CS Asia Championships 2026
Asian Champions League 2026
IEM Atlanta 2026
PGL Astana 2026

Upcoming

ASL S22 SEASON OPEN Day 1
Escore Tournament S3: W4
ASL S22 SEASON OPEN Day 2
Escore Tournament S3: W5
CSLAN 4
Blizzard Classic Cup 2026
HSC XXX
SC4ALL II: StarCraft II
Kung Fu Cup 2026 Grand Finals
Light Tournament 2026
Eternal Conflict S2 Finale
Eternal Conflict S2 E3
Logitech G Connect 2026
StarSeries Fall 2026
FISSURE Playground #5
BLAST Open Fall 2026
Esports World Cup 2026
BLAST Bounty Summer 2026
BLAST Bounty Summer Qual
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.