Most Wins Standings: Players with > 20 wins

Player	Team	WoL Win - Loss	HotS Win - Loss	R6 Win - Loss	Total Win - Loss	Total Win %
Flash	KT	19 - 11	23 - 10	5 - 3	42 - 21	67%
INnoVation	STX	17 - 11	20 - 8	4 - 3	37 - 19	66%
Rain	SKT	16 - 9	20 - 10	3 - 5	36 - 19	65%
JangBi	SAM	12 - 13	20 - 11	8 - 3	32 - 24	57%
sOs	WJS	18 - 8	13 - 7	4 - 1	31 - 15	67%
Hydra	CJ	18 - 10	12 - 16	4 - 4	30 - 26	54%
Zest	KT	11 - 6	18 - 6	4 - 3	29 - 12	71%
EffOrt	CJ	16 - 12	13 - 14	4 - 4	29 - 26	53%
RorO	SAM	16 - 10	12 - 9	3 - 4	28 - 19	60%
FanTaSy	SKT	14 - 13	14 - 10	5 - 3	28 - 23	55%
herO	CJ	17 - 9	10 - 12	2 - 4	27 - 21	56%
Soulkey	WJS	11 - 7	15 - 7	3 - 2	26 - 14	65%
TY	T8	8 - 13	18 - 13	3 - 3	26 - 26	50%
Stats	KT	11 - 7	13 - 6	5 - 1	24 - 13	65%
free	WJS	12 - 5	12 - 10	2 - 2	24 - 15	62%
Dear	STX	11 - 9	13 - 8	5 - 2	24 - 17	59%
HerO	EG-TL	10 - 10	15 - 13	5 - 4	24 - 23	51%
Argo	T8	14 - 13	10 - 11	3 - 3	24 - 24	50%
ZerO	WJS	14 - 9	6 - 6	1 - 1	20 - 15	57%

With the end of the regular season, the title for the most wins in Proleague has been decided. With a 67% win rate, KT Rolster’s Flash has earned the title with a 5 win lead over second place INnoVation. While at one point, Flash, Innovation, and Rain were in a complete deadlock for first place, Flash took a substantial lead in the all-kill round by getting put out as the starting player and managing to perform several multi-kills as well as a few all-kills along the way.

A surprising entrant in the top five, JangBi managed to sneak in at the fourth position even though his team didn’t make the playoffs, which is just another testament to how much he contributed to his team. Though Woongjin Stars’ sOs barely skidded into fifth with a one game lead over the sixth place, it should be noted that Woongjin has the most players in this category, topping it out with a total of four. Because of their team strength, Woongjin Stars often closes out matches early before all their players can play.

All in all, this ranking should go to show that while Innovation may be leading the charts in individual leagues, there is stiff competition at the top and no single player should be considered immune, especially in the bloody arena that is Proleague.

Previous Postmortem Analyses

• CJ Entus
  
• Team 8/Green Wings

Retrospective: Samsung KHAN
Probably the most eccentric team, Samsung KHAN is home to some of the quirkiest players; from Jangbi’s hilarious hyena-like laugh, to Shine’s bathroom etiquette, it’s clear that this team is a close knit group of players that share a sense of camaraderie. Since the start of the season, Samsung has had it’s highs and lows; though they had an abysmal start, they picked it up in the next round. They took the rankings by storm when Heart of the Swarm came out and made a dash for the playoffs. Unfortunately for them, it was a little too late and their fate was no longer in their own hands. And as hard as they fought, Samsung barely missed making it to the playoffs. While they dwell on their losses, we’re here to take a look back at some of Samsung’s greatest moments as well as some of their worst.

Biggest Strength: Perseverance
With a quick assessment of their players, it’s clear that Samsung doesn’t have the star power that a team like Woongjin or SKT possess. At the start of Proleague, they didn’t even have an individual player with as much raw strength as KT or STX. But they didn’t give up and stop practicing. With the end of the round things began to look up and the reign of RorO(28-19) began as anti-teams across Teamliquid were shattered with RorO netting 25 points that round. Samsung’s slow progress continued, and they managed to claw their way from being the laughing stock of the Proleague community to a respectable team that was inches away from claiming a playoff spot.

Biggest Weakness: Questionable line-ups
A huge problem that plagued Samsung throughout this season were the questionable choices made by Coach January and her team. Of course, there is no way to know their thought process and they could very well have good reasons for why they did the following things, but it is still important to note the occurrence of them nonetheless.

• Continuously fielding Shine while keeping better players under wraps
  
• Debuting Solar(2-5) in Round 2
  
• Debuting Trend(0-1) in Round 6
  
• Fielding Kop(3-4), TurN(9-11) and Reality(19-20) with regularity in Round 4

While these decisions wouldn’t have necessarily saved Samsung from their fifth place finish, the fact that they were so close makes the bullet points above so heartbreaking, because if Samsung had won one or two more matches in their earlier rounds, we could have easily seen them preparing to face STX Soul instead over SKT.

Greatest Moment: Round 4
With the release of HOTS, many teams experienced change, for good or bad. While teams like CJ Entus and SK Telecom T1 had trouble adjusting to the expansion, teams like STX Soul and Samsung KHAN benefited greatly from it and capitalized by taking a few much needed wins to keep them in the game. While we would see Samsung and RorO take a large performance hit in the next round, round 4 featured the rise of Reality, with notable wins over Flash and Hydra.

Worst Moment: Round 1
There is nothing worse than starting a seven month long league by going 1-6, but that’s exactly how Samsung KHAN started this season of Proleague. With an absolutely abysmal start, no one on the team had a positive W/L record. However, there was a silver lining through the tragedy, which was the fact that Jangbi had potential. Out of all the players, Jangbi was the only one who won an ace match, and against CJ’s herO no less.

Player most deserving of a Playoff team: JangBi
While RorO may have had the last Wings of Liberty GSL title under his belt and contributed to his team’s success tremendously, let us not forget his performance in round 5, where he had a 4-5 score and his team went 2-5. Meanwhile, Jangbi was in the top 6 scorers with an 8-5 record, trying his hardest to keep his team afloat by himself. While not the most known player to new viewers of Starcraft, JangBi(32-24) has been performing admirably in Proleague and though he hasn’t had too many chances to prove himself in individual leagues, there should be little doubt that he will rise to become a top contender soon.

Special Shine Award: Shine
Dude has a 5-15 record in Proleague, and had a -1 score in FPL in one of the rounds. STOP FIELDING HIM.

Special Shine Award #2: Stork
Stork(14-29): See also: HotS record

Player to look out for in the future: TurN
An up and comer, TurN already boasts wins over players like Innovation and Cure. With a lot of room to grow, TurN has the potential to become a solid anchor for his team in the future. Though he had a rough start in the first few rounds of the season, he, along with many other players in Samsung KHAN, rebounded at the start of Heart of the Swarm and as a result found himself in starting line up often. It wouldn’t be much of a surprise to see this Terran player continue on the road of improvement and become a staple in the Samsung KHAN roster.

Key areas to improve on for next season: Roster depth
Let’s face it: Samsung KHAN has one of the most bare bones rosters out all the teams in Proleague. There isn’t a simple solution for how they can improve, because there are a number of things that can be improved. Their starting line-up is essentially made up of Jangbi and RorO and is sprinkled with a severely underperforming Stork, three developing Terrans and Shine. On the sidelines they also have Solar and Trend, but we haven’t seen much of them so it is hard to speculate on their skill level. However, even with all these problems, they still managed to finish 5th, which is an incredible feat to accomplish. Moving forward, Stork has to continue to work on his game because if he somehow manages to find his groove back, it could be exactly what Samsung needs to push them over the edge. Couple that with their Terrans who have shown good potential and perhaps a new recruit or two, and Samsung is in good shape to take the next season by storm.