LCS Fantasy League

How do we get points?

Now, this is the tricky part, but we'll make it so that you don't have to do any math at all. First of all, for each match, we track 5 things about each player:

Which hero he picked.
How many Kills he had.
How many Deaths he had.
How many Assists he had.
How much GPM he had.

Gee, Bruno, that looks a lot like the stats you track in the site! And it's for a reason! The points you'll get will depend on how well that player did, and compare those totals with the averages for that hero. Depending on how much worse/better they were from the averages, you'll get less/more points.

There's a different system for each stat. Click here to know how it goes.

For Kills and Assists:

If you get more than 2x the Average for that hero, you get 5 points.
If you get between 1.5x and 2x the Average for that hero, you get 3 points.
If you get between 1x and 1.5x the Average for that hero, you get 1 points.
If you get between 0.5x and 1x the Average for that hero, you get 0 points.
If you get between less than 0.5x the Average for that hero, but more than 0, you get -1 points.
If you get 0, you get -3 points!

For Deaths it's exactly the opposite

If you get 0 deaths, you get 5 points!
If you get between less than 0.5x the Average for that hero, but more than 0, you get 3 points.
If you get between 0.5x and 1x the Average for that hero, you get 1 points.
If you get between 1x and 1.5x the Average for that hero, you get 0 points.
If you get between 1.5x and 2x the Average for that hero, you get -1 points.
If you get more than 2x the Average for that hero, you get -3 points.

For GPM, the score is trickier. While Kills Deaths and Assists don't have any hard high constraints (A player can end up 99-76-153, although really unlikely) GPM is generally more rigid so the formula used before doesn't really work too well. So the calculation we use, involves the concept of Standard Deviation. Simply put, Standard Deviation is a value calculated, similarly to how you'd calculate an average, and it helps you calculate for a specific number, what percentage of the values from which you're calculating the average. So, for example, if a certain group of values has an average of 10 and a standard deviation of 2, it means that: ~67% of the values in that group are between (10 - 2) and (10 + 2). It also means that ~50% of the values are between (10 - 0.674 * 2) and (10 + 0.674 * 2). The 0.674 comes from a table ( 95% is 1.959, 90% is 1.644) and the good thing about it is that it allows us to calculate the value that is, for example 90% better than all the previous existing values. And that sounds awesome to us, because we can assign points based on how well that player ranked compared to all the previous games with that same hero.

So, the system goes like this, suppose your score ranks somewhere between 0% and 100%, 0% meaning you were worse than EVERYONE ELSE that played with that hero and 100% meaning you were BETTER than everyone else, while 50% means that you were exactly in the middle (The average):

If you're rank between 0% and 10%, you get -3 points.
If you rank between 10% and 25%, you get -1 points.
If you rank between 25% and 50%, you get 0 points.
If you rank between 50% and 75%, you get 1 point.
If you rank between 75% and 90%, you get 3 points.
If you rank between 90% and 100%, you get 5 points.

Finally, you get additional points depending on match length and whether your team won or lost. While this might be controversial, due to some teams being structured on winning late, this mainly helps offset low scores in stomps and it won't affect most matches in the 20-50min range. And pretty much no team is structured to win in more than 50 minutes.

The system goes like this:

If you won in less than 20 minutes, you get 5 points (As a bonus for stomping + the fact that your stats will probably not be that great, because you couldn't rack enough kills/assists/gpm)
If you won in between 20 and 50 minutes, you get 2 points (A standard win, more points than a loss, nothing special)
If you lost in less than 50 minutes, you get 1 points (Consider it a consolation prize)
If you lost in more than 50 minutes, you get 5 points (A bonus for holding out for so long)

You can optionally also have a CAPTROLL player. The CAPTROLL in your team will get more points the WORSE he performs. The amount of points you get for your CAPTROLL is 15 minus his actual score.