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Profile Blog Joined January 2009
China13814 Posts
August 21 2013 03:39 GMT
#73141
On August 21 2013 12:36 Comeh wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 21 2013 12:35 Kuroeeah wrote:
what exactly does valve datamine that effects your "hero performance" graph? it's not KDA's nor is it win rate.

It's winrate.

yeah, i'm pretty sure for max hero performance you just need a 75%+ winrate (and >4 games)
:)
Najda
Profile Joined June 2010
United States3765 Posts
August 21 2013 03:49 GMT
#73142
I don't think there could be any metric that really shows one player is better than another. Most of the skill comes from positioning, item choices, when to fight, how to harass in lane etc. Two noobs might face off in mid and get a decent creep score and not really hurt each other much because they don't know their power or are scared, while two pros score the same creep kills and still fail to kill each other, but for different reasons (don't want to overextend etc).

The noobs are making mistakes and the other one isn't good enough to capitalize on it, while the pros just avoid the mistakes, resulting in overall similar gpm/xpm.
Mataza
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Germany5364 Posts
August 21 2013 03:52 GMT
#73143
On August 21 2013 10:27 TheYango wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 21 2013 09:16 Blitzkrieg0 wrote:
On August 21 2013 09:08 CuddlyCuteKitten wrote:
On August 21 2013 09:00 Kuroeeah wrote:
You can't really judge (on most instances) how good or bad a player is from a single game.


You can make some general judgements pretty easily.

For example in starcraft you could say that if after one game a player had >150 apm, mined x ammount of minerals per minute and never built up a bank of 500 for over 30 seconds he is probably at least decent. I am sure you could find similar metrics in dota to get a rough determination of player skill that works even if he trolls and/or his team lose horribly.


Most of the statistics would just be clouded by variables that aren't even under the players control. If a player gets 800 GPM does that make him a good player? What if he was playing anti-mage and his team won the game 4 vs 5 while he just farmed all game? It certainly doesn't make him a bad player, but farming while you're under no pressure isn't impressive.

At the same time you could have a player who gets five man gank trained the entire game while his spectre free farms. Does that make the player that got gank trained terrible since he died a lot and his team still wins the game because of spectre? Is the spectre good or bad because the other team ganked the wrong person?

Too many variables are out of your control to have any sort of metric if a player is good. Your KDA and GPM don't provide any meaningful data alone.

I don't think most of these things would be basic visible statistics.

However, there are a lot of things not visible to you in any form that Valve could data mine from replays that in many cases are highly indicative of a good player. The best example that comes to me immediately is how often someone clicks on his opponents to view their items.

This is such a bad example. You really only have to check items some few times. You check for boots if you plan an early gank. You check for dust/sentries/gem when you rely on invis. You check for bkb on heroes you want to focus in an upcoming teamfight. You check for dagger/shadowbladeforcestaff on heroes that can stun.
For example I would never check a jakiros items if I don't have any invis heroes in my team.
You can often tell most of what you need to know from the minimap and from just watching the enemy heroes attack/move.

There are ways to tell if a player is good, but I know of no such way that can be expressed as a number.
If nobody hates you, you´re doing something wrong. However someone hating you doesn´t make you right
Itsmedudeman
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States19229 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-21 03:59:18
August 21 2013 03:54 GMT
#73144
Lol implementing a stat like "checking opponent's items" would be made pretty useless in a few weeks. Everyone would just spam check someone's items every game when there's down time.

Most stats are useless because they're role dependent. I think if you attach it to certain heroes it could be worthwhile. On average a better player will have a better cs by 10 minutes.
Kuroeeah
Profile Blog Joined February 2013
11696 Posts
August 21 2013 03:55 GMT
#73145
i can almost immediately tell from my perspective just by how they move their character, whether they're intentionally auto attacking to push creep equilibrium etc and so on.

some players have better mechanical superiority in terms of last hitting than others and is an easily distinguishable factor (one of many). just general lane control.
Kuroeeah
Profile Blog Joined February 2013
11696 Posts
August 21 2013 06:49 GMT
#73146
i dont usually promote streams but this guy.

http://www.twitch.tv/kotlguy
Nightmarjoo
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
United States3360 Posts
August 21 2013 06:58 GMT
#73147
On August 21 2013 06:48 rabidch wrote:
new people should just start with limited heroes/bots

I probably wouldn't have enjoyed dota at all if I was forced to play out of the limited hero pool. My friend who was decent at the game taught me the general role info and the basics of supporting and then I was on my own. The first hero I really started practicing was Invoker, who seemed far more interesting than any of the other heroes. So in practicing him I became invested in dota, and then expanded my hero pool / overall game knowledge. Coming from bw and sc2, I find heroes like skeleton king and sven to be unenjoyably boring to play because you don't do anything on them but right click. My second main hero was furion (also not in limited).

So personally if I'd have been forced to play the limited heroes I'd probably have decided the game was boring and not worth playing and stayed with sc2. When you know nothing about the game you're drawn to the heroes who look or seem interesting (or maybe the heroes who rape in the games you see), and your attraction to the hero leads to an attraction with the game itself. Limiting options doesn't let people explore everything dota has to offer-- and first impressions matter.
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TheEmulator
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
28103 Posts
August 21 2013 07:07 GMT
#73148
On August 21 2013 15:49 Kuroeeah wrote:
i dont usually promote streams but this guy.

http://www.twitch.tv/kotlguy

Ok that is one of the funniest things I have ever seen
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Wrongspeedy
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States1655 Posts
August 21 2013 07:14 GMT
#73149
On August 21 2013 16:07 TheEmulator wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 21 2013 15:49 Kuroeeah wrote:
i dont usually promote streams but this guy.

http://www.twitch.tv/kotlguy

Ok that is one of the funniest things I have ever seen


Hahah I clicked on it and he was listening to "Take a load off fanny". If I had been drinking something it would have come out my nose.
It is better to be a human dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.- John Stuart Mill
icystorage
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Jollibee19350 Posts
August 21 2013 08:48 GMT
#73150
Dota facts 201

Did you Know IceIceIce is the world strongest mid solo , He joined 210 small mid solo tournament and 56 Big Mid Solo Tournament and has never lost before . He won 6 times against Yaphets's Sf , 5 times against Ferrari430 Invoker ,5 Times Against Mushi's Akasha ....Even the son of magnus (S4) Claimed him to be the greatest Mid solo in the History of dota ...No one in dota history can fight him more than 10mins ...Making him the god of solo In Dota 2

Source: Alliance facebook page.

Legit? O.o
LiquidDota StaffAre you ready for a Miracle-? We are! The International 2017 Champions!
Qbek
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Poland12923 Posts
August 21 2013 08:49 GMT
#73151
I can believe that
This space left intentionally dank /)3(\ http://i.imgur.com/RmeEUcF.png
Shaella
Profile Blog Joined January 2013
United States14828 Posts
August 21 2013 08:51 GMT
#73152
Idk, has he beat CTY and fy?
don't tell me to provide a legend for those charts cause we already got shaella in this thread - eieio | Bulba is my waifu
cecek
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Czech Republic18921 Posts
August 21 2013 08:54 GMT
#73153
"He joined 210 small mid solo tournament and 56 Big Mid Solo Tournament"

what?
super gg
Dubzex
Profile Joined October 2010
United States6994 Posts
August 21 2013 09:02 GMT
#73154
Clearly isn't the best if he hasn't beat yajirobefromdc.
"DONT UNDERESTIMATE MY CARRY OR YOU WILL BE CARRIED INTO THE ABYSS OF SUFFERING" - Tyler 'TC' Cook
Kuroeeah
Profile Blog Joined February 2013
11696 Posts
August 21 2013 09:13 GMT
#73155
On August 21 2013 18:02 Dubzex wrote:
Clearly isn't the best if he hasn't beat yajirobefromdc.

Undefeated Shadow Fiend still to this day.
BlitzerSC
Profile Joined May 2011
Italy8800 Posts
August 21 2013 09:37 GMT
#73156
1v1 =/= Mid solo
EnumaAvalon
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
Philippines3613 Posts
August 21 2013 10:14 GMT
#73157
On August 21 2013 18:37 BlitzerSC wrote:
1v1 =/= Mid solo

True but when people try to pit individuals 1v1 it's usually solo mid because it's the "fair" lane. Arguably, offlaners like LoH are also pretty good but they're good at surviving and not always at beating the opposing dual, solo or tri in their lane.
(._.) ( l: ) ( .-. ) ( :l ) (._.) They see me rolling. They hating.
Numy
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
South Africa35471 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-21 10:46:34
August 21 2013 10:43 GMT
#73158
On August 21 2013 12:52 Mataza wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 21 2013 10:27 TheYango wrote:
On August 21 2013 09:16 Blitzkrieg0 wrote:
On August 21 2013 09:08 CuddlyCuteKitten wrote:
On August 21 2013 09:00 Kuroeeah wrote:
You can't really judge (on most instances) how good or bad a player is from a single game.


You can make some general judgements pretty easily.

For example in starcraft you could say that if after one game a player had >150 apm, mined x ammount of minerals per minute and never built up a bank of 500 for over 30 seconds he is probably at least decent. I am sure you could find similar metrics in dota to get a rough determination of player skill that works even if he trolls and/or his team lose horribly.


Most of the statistics would just be clouded by variables that aren't even under the players control. If a player gets 800 GPM does that make him a good player? What if he was playing anti-mage and his team won the game 4 vs 5 while he just farmed all game? It certainly doesn't make him a bad player, but farming while you're under no pressure isn't impressive.

At the same time you could have a player who gets five man gank trained the entire game while his spectre free farms. Does that make the player that got gank trained terrible since he died a lot and his team still wins the game because of spectre? Is the spectre good or bad because the other team ganked the wrong person?

Too many variables are out of your control to have any sort of metric if a player is good. Your KDA and GPM don't provide any meaningful data alone.

I don't think most of these things would be basic visible statistics.

However, there are a lot of things not visible to you in any form that Valve could data mine from replays that in many cases are highly indicative of a good player. The best example that comes to me immediately is how often someone clicks on his opponents to view their items.

This is such a bad example. You really only have to check items some few times. You check for boots if you plan an early gank. You check for dust/sentries/gem when you rely on invis. You check for bkb on heroes you want to focus in an upcoming teamfight. You check for dagger/shadowbladeforcestaff on heroes that can stun.
For example I would never check a jakiros items if I don't have any invis heroes in my team.
You can often tell most of what you need to know from the minimap and from just watching the enemy heroes attack/move.

There are ways to tell if a player is good, but I know of no such way that can be expressed as a number.


Erm that's not true at all. Checking a jakiros items are often very useful. You see if he has a tp which is important when prepping a dive. Can check if he has obs wards on him(Either unused or 1 stack) then if you keep checking you can get hints at where he has warded so you can either avoid the ward or remove it. I would never intentionally not check a heroes items. You should be checking their whole team constantly.

Actually think checking for tps is one of the most important things you can do. Allows you to punish a mistake pretty easily that you wouldn't otherwise punish if you didn't check.
icystorage
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Jollibee19350 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-21 10:45:06
August 21 2013 10:44 GMT
#73159
little things that have a great effect in game
LiquidDota StaffAre you ready for a Miracle-? We are! The International 2017 Champions!
BurningSera
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Ireland19621 Posts
August 21 2013 12:29 GMT
#73160
Clicking on enemy items/fully aware on enemy's inventory is almost like the hallmark habit of a veteran player, the funny thing is that lets say some new players first learn and try spamming that, he wouldn't be able to use it at the right moments anyway, it takes a long time to get used to that. Not to say that you can use it to estimate the economy state of enemy team which is also pretty useless for players who have no clue how the economy flows in any game.

It also affects how a player estimates how much spells/damage that he should ditch out in different situations, Dendi checks the enemy inventory really quick very frequently (same to most 'veteran' pros) but you see players like Sing rarely do that (and he often wrongly estimated the damage etc), which is also why i fcking love yaphets/PIS, his estimation of dealing X amount of damage is so damn impressive.
is 2017, stop being lame, fuck's sakes. 'Can't wait for the rise of the cakes and humanity's last stand tbqh.'
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