Power Rank 03/01/2011 - Page 17

On March 28 2011 17:11 popzags wrote:
1. Flash
2. Stats
3. Jaedong
4. Fantasy
5. Horang2
6. Baby
7. Stork
8. Firebathero
9. Bisu
10. Roro

CBNC: Movie, Zero

On March 28 2011 16:25 Iplaythings wrote:

It's KeSPA rating... and he won an OSL whereas Flash / JD didn't even make a final, he's BOUND to be higher.

Please dont judge with KeSPA, do Elo, please. Please!

Also Putting Fantasy above Stats because of KeSPA is plain dumb, he beat Fantasy and made 2 all kills, played like a fucking monster truck PvP and played one of the best noone bisu PvZ vs Zero.

How can Fantasy be above because of KeSPA rating (the dumbest system ever where only 2 persons can be above 1k or so, its retarded how on can be at 2k, another at 3k and then maybe 1-2 at 1000-2000 and then rest is below 1000.

On March 29 2011 09:01 Mortality wrote:
9. Bisu (5-4)
Bisu... what happened? One might argue that Bisu should be higher, and indeed it's hard to see anything in particular that's wrong with Bisu's play, except perhaps that Bisu's HT play seems to be lagging behind the competition. He's still winning more than he's losing, pulling through his MST group... but his last win in SWL was on March 8. Where Free embarrassingly dismantled him with two unscouted, undefended hidden expos (in 2005 an acceptable loss, in 2011?).

On March 29 2011 13:43 Oystein wrote:

While I am probably always kind of biased when I talk about Bisu I still think I am rather objective for a fanboy. Anyhow I would probably put him a bit higher and just give him some benefit of the doubt. While his record this month is kinda shaky, the PR have always been more than just results and stats and there have not been much of a decline in his play outside of his PvP (and even there I think it has more to do with the competition getting better at the matchup + some bad luck\getting predictable in BO).

Looking at his losses they come from an in form Jaedong, where he lost simply due to trying to cut some corners against the best ZvP player on the planet and skip the second cannon (he also was insanely close to scouting the hydras in the center with his DT). One straight up build order loss vs Leta with a 1gate expo build vs 2fac, tho this can also be attributed to Bisu simply being predictable in PvT (hes used this same 1gate->lot->range goon->expo in lots of his PvT games lately). He got another loss against an in form player in Stats where he once again was at a build order disadvantage and Stats never gave up his advantage playing a rock solid game beating him pretty soundly. His game vs Free was pretty bad tho. Beside a rather scrappy game against Perfectman he looked rock solid in all his wins, and really nothing in his wins gives any indication of worse play than hes been putting up earlier in Winners league. The only 2 games you can really look at and say "well Bisu is playing bad" is his games against Free and Perfectman.

If you look at him overall hes got one matchup that is light years ahead of everyone else (PvZ), and one matchup where hes one of the best. While it might not always look pretty you can`t argue with the results his putting up in PvT (17-3 in his last 20 PvTs with losses against Flash, Hiya and Leta) and currently tied in #1 PvT ELO with Stork. His PvP have been kinda shaky lately, but beside his 2 last losses against Free and Stats Bisu have been beating everyone not named Kal or Stork for a looong time in PvP, in fact ever since he lost to Stats in the PL finals in August. Hes still #2 in PvP ELO despite losing 4 of his last 5 PvPs.

Do we really think that its gonna be harder to play against FBH or Horang2 than its gonna be against Bisu? If we do value short term result heavily he should at least be placed above Stork, who is performing similarly "bad".