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Tuczniak
Profile Joined September 2010
1561 Posts
October 13 2014 18:41 GMT
#22781
antiRW's method looks good. Might be the best way to get winrates. The only question is how define top players and how many you want. The more players the more winrates will be closer to 50% because of more % of games will be just better player winning thanks to big difference in skill.
antiRW
Profile Joined September 2011
United Kingdom117 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-10-13 18:45:26
October 13 2014 18:44 GMT
#22782
On October 14 2014 03:14 Ghanburighan wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 14 2014 03:11 antiRW wrote:
On October 14 2014 02:49 Ghanburighan wrote:
This is a nice new data point. Although it's clear why the top 50 gives a weird result when you compare it to top100. It has people like Targa, Jaedong, Leenock, etc over people like Hydra, Dark, Curious.

I do dislike that both lists bring in Mvp, Kas and some guy called EnDerr. Perhaps it's possible to refine the search a bit more.


Easy to refine in principle. For starters I just took the aligulac top X. Could be something like current GSL players or some mixed group instead.

Agreed, players like Kas and EnDerr are why I personally prefer the top 50 over the top 100. It cannot be reduced much below 50 if we want to have a decent number of games (and thus valid statistics).


Only GSL players sounds quite viable on paper. Does that yield anything different from Top50 or GSL games only?


Players from last GSL Code S: 'Stats', 'Flash', 'Hurricane', 'Reality', 'Stork', 'Maru', 'Rain', 'Avenge', 'EffOrt', 'PartinG', 'DongRaeGu', 'ParalyzE', 'Soulkey', 'Zest', 'TY', 'TRUE', 'soO', 'Dark', 'Rogue', 'Solar', 'Shine', 'Trap', 'INnoVation', 'Bbyong', 'MyuNgSiK', 'Classic', 'Hush', 'sOs', 'Cure', 'Terminator', 'Dear', 'Trust'

69 meetings between these players (not just GSL, but all aligulac games since Sep 01, 2014)

Total games: 204

PvT - 43.48% - 46
PvZ - 52.54% - 59
TvZ - 54.55% - 44

31 PvP, 12 TvT, 12 ZvZ

=> Similar directions in all three match-ups as with the Top 50/100 (obviously there is some player overlap as well).
DinoMight
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
United States3725 Posts
October 13 2014 18:52 GMT
#22783
On October 14 2014 03:44 antiRW wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 14 2014 03:14 Ghanburighan wrote:
On October 14 2014 03:11 antiRW wrote:
On October 14 2014 02:49 Ghanburighan wrote:
This is a nice new data point. Although it's clear why the top 50 gives a weird result when you compare it to top100. It has people like Targa, Jaedong, Leenock, etc over people like Hydra, Dark, Curious.

I do dislike that both lists bring in Mvp, Kas and some guy called EnDerr. Perhaps it's possible to refine the search a bit more.


Easy to refine in principle. For starters I just took the aligulac top X. Could be something like current GSL players or some mixed group instead.

Agreed, players like Kas and EnDerr are why I personally prefer the top 50 over the top 100. It cannot be reduced much below 50 if we want to have a decent number of games (and thus valid statistics).


Only GSL players sounds quite viable on paper. Does that yield anything different from Top50 or GSL games only?


Players from last GSL Code S: 'Stats', 'Flash', 'Hurricane', 'Reality', 'Stork', 'Maru', 'Rain', 'Avenge', 'EffOrt', 'PartinG', 'DongRaeGu', 'ParalyzE', 'Soulkey', 'Zest', 'TY', 'TRUE', 'soO', 'Dark', 'Rogue', 'Solar', 'Shine', 'Trap', 'INnoVation', 'Bbyong', 'MyuNgSiK', 'Classic', 'Hush', 'sOs', 'Cure', 'Terminator', 'Dear', 'Trust'

69 meetings between these players (not just GSL, but all aligulac games since Sep 01, 2014)

Total games: 204

PvT - 43.48% - 46
PvZ - 52.54% - 59
TvZ - 54.55% - 44

31 PvP, 12 TvT, 12 ZvZ

=> Similar directions in all three match-ups as with the Top 50/100 (obviously there is some player overlap as well).


If you look only at Bo5 series and up, Terran becomes hugely favored both in GSL and outside vs Z.
"Wtf I come back and find myself in camp DinoMight all of a sudden, feels weird man." -Wombat_NI
SC2Toastie
Profile Blog Joined October 2013
Netherlands5725 Posts
October 13 2014 18:58 GMT
#22784
If you look up only the series Terran won, Terran has a ridiculous map winrate.
Mura Ma Man, Dark Da Dude, Super Shot Sos!
antiRW
Profile Joined September 2011
United Kingdom117 Posts
October 13 2014 18:59 GMT
#22785
The above were map scores, as obvious from # meetings < # total games. If we compare actual series results, i.e., only count BOX wins, we get:

Top 50 players: 'Solar', 'herO', 'YoDa', 'Sacsri', 'INnoVation', 'TaeJa', 'Zest', 'jjakji', 'Rain', 'Life', 'Flash', 'MMA', 'HyuN', 'Polt', 'Bomber', 'soO', 'San', 'sOs', 'Cure', 'Scarlett', 'First', 'Bunny', 'ForGG', 'Dear', 'Maru', 'KingKong', 'Soulkey', 'TY', 'Leenock', 'PartinG', 'Stats', 'Bbyong', 'Classic', 'StarDust', 'Heart', 'Jaedong', 'Patience', 'VortiX', 'Sora', 'Snute', 'viOLet', 'Hurricane', 'TargA', 'GuMiho', 'Happy', 'DongRaeGu', 'Ourk', 'Super', 'Pet', 'Mvp'

171 games between these players since 2014-09-01

Total games: 171

PvT - 44.19% - 43
PvZ - 58.33% - 36
TvZ - 63.64% - 33

10 PvP, 21 TvT, 27 ZvZ


Top 100 players: 'Solar', 'herO', 'YoDa', 'Sacsri', 'INnoVation', 'TaeJa', 'Zest', 'jjakji', 'Rain', 'Life', 'Flash', 'MMA', 'HyuN', 'Polt', 'Bomber', 'soO', 'San', 'sOs', 'Cure', 'Scarlett', 'First', 'Bunny', 'ForGG', 'Dear', 'Maru', 'KingKong', 'Soulkey', 'TY', 'Leenock', 'PartinG', 'Stats', 'Bbyong', 'Classic', 'StarDust', 'Heart', 'Jaedong', 'Patience', 'VortiX', 'Sora', 'Snute', 'viOLet', 'Hurricane', 'TargA', 'GuMiho', 'Happy', 'DongRaeGu', 'Ourk', 'Super', 'Pet', 'Mvp', 'ByuL', 'MajOr', 'Trap', 'Jim', 'Rogue', 'Lilbow', 'Dark', 'Hydra', 'MC', 'RagnaroK', 'TRUE', 'Impact', 'Center', 'Nerchio', 'Reality', 'KangHo', 'Golden', 'Petraeus', 'ShoWTimE', 'HeRoMaRinE', 'Pigbaby', 'Journey', 'Sen', 'EffOrt', 'MaNa', 'SuperNova', 'MaSa', 'Symbol', 'Avenge', 'Dayshi', 'Kas', 'Trust', 'Ryung', 'Hack', 'Check', 'HerO', 'EnDerr', 'Curious', 'Stork', 'FanTaSy', 'Starbuck', 'uThermal', 'Revival', 'Squirtle', 'ParalyzE', 'TLO', 'Spear', 'MorroW', 'HuK', 'Sorry'

466 games between these players since 2014-09-01

Total games: 466

PvT - 42.53% - 87
PvZ - 56.70% - 97
TvZ - 55.38% - 130

28 PvP, 48 TvT, 75 ZvZ


Players from last GSL Code S: 'Stats', 'Flash', 'Hurricane', 'Reality', 'Stork', 'Maru', 'Rain', 'Avenge', 'EffOrt', 'PartinG', 'DongRaeGu', 'ParalyzE', 'Soulkey', 'Zest', 'TY', 'TRUE', 'soO', 'Dark', 'Rogue', 'Solar', 'Shine', 'Trap', 'INnoVation', 'Bbyong', 'MyuNgSiK', 'Classic', 'Hush', 'sOs', 'Cure', 'Terminator', 'Dear', 'Trust'

69 games between these players since 2014-09-01

Total games: 69

PvT - 38.89% - 18
PvZ - 50.00% - 18
TvZ - 50.00% - 14
Doublemint
Profile Joined July 2011
Austria8726 Posts
October 13 2014 19:08 GMT
#22786
Guys, nothing to see here. Terran is at its rightful place. Let them feel they are the chosen ones as they are supposedly the most skilled players.

Last time it was Protoss' turn, now it's Terran. Some time in the future it is gonna be Zerg.

:ugly:
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before the fall.
Big J
Profile Joined March 2011
Austria16289 Posts
October 13 2014 19:09 GMT
#22787
Sick stuff!
plogamer
Profile Blog Joined January 2012
Canada3132 Posts
October 13 2014 19:11 GMT
#22788
On October 13 2014 23:40 antiRW wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 13 2014 23:30 Thieving Magpie wrote:
On October 13 2014 23:16 Big J wrote:
On October 13 2014 22:41 Thieving Magpie wrote:
On October 13 2014 22:29 HEADD wrote:
I see TVZ strongly unbalanced right now.With recent Thor buff and widow mine buff without reverting hellbats buff.
I think this will balance the game:

1-revert helbatt buff-This prevent zerg from having good early economy+forcing him to banelings
2-revert thor buff-this is just stupid buff.Complete anti muta buff.Not necessary at all and pretty much forcing zerg not use mutas at all.
3-widow mine slightly nerf-Not in same state 3 moths ago, but slightly nerf, because i seen so many times 1 widow mine kills 20banelings in 1 hit.This is just not right.1 little mistake by zerg and ist game ending.
I think 70-80% of current splash damage would be OK.

Terrans will have still decent widow mines, but not that good that they can wipe 20 banelings with 1 hit and zergs still need micro.


Then why does Zerg win more often than Terran does according to aligulac?


Sorry, but most of the stats of aligulac are not interesting for the highest level of balance. Even if it is only 50% it is a big problem if we judge balance by this. Here are the stats of all the tournaments minus WCS America that took place in the last two days:
Seacraft Weekly #24:
TvZ 7–1 (87.50%)
Notable TvZs: ???

WECG Qualifier Korea Playoffs:
TvZ 3–2 (60.00%)
Notable TvZs: Dark vs Ty

Gfinity 1v1 Cup #31
TvZ 0–0 (0%)
Notable TvZs: ---

go4sc2 Cup Europe #413
TvZ 8–9 (47.06%)
Notable TvZs:
YoDa 1-2 TargA
Dragon 0–2 Tefel

PxL-Lan #41
TvZ 1–4 (20.00%)
Notable TvZs: ???



--> 25/35 (71%) games are not even worth mentioning when discussing balance on a high level in that periode of time.
It's complete bonkers to watch aligulac stats and then make so exact statements as "Zerg is winning more than Terran because 48%". Yes, in the aligulac coverage it is. If we don't arbitrarily cut by tournament participation and take a different "arbitrary" cut, namely WCS Premier Leagues, this is what we get:


WCS AM: 27-15 (64%)
WCS EU: 25 - 21 (54%)
GSL Code S: 19-13 (59%)


And I do not like the practice of "these numbers that don't agree with my conclusions are wrong" bible thumper mentality.

You take all of the data, all of the different degrees of the data, and have each aspect of the data inform different parts of the conclusion.

Individual player performance shows what is possible. Totality of player performances shows what is happening. You have to integrate what is possible with what is happening to be able to make conclusions about anything.



... which was exactly his point. Namely that statements such as "nothing is broken because aligulac's 48%" are not useful, because aligulac along is not reflective of the full picture.


Please explain why zergs are still attacking from 1 direction with no flanks with muta/ling/bling; the fastest moving army comp in the game. That was how Scarlett beat Bomber with mass banes before mine-nerf was reverted (vs Z). That was how soO fought against Innovation, and lost after the patch.

Spoiled zergs are gonna have to take a few spanking before they learn to use their mobility to flank their opponents.
Deleted User 137586
Profile Joined January 2011
7859 Posts
October 13 2014 19:16 GMT
#22789
Good work antiRW, now to boost the number of games. Can you do the same with GSL, WCS (code S equivalent in Europe and NA) and Proelague players?
Cry 'havoc' and let slip the dogs of war
RaFox17
Profile Joined May 2013
Finland4581 Posts
October 13 2014 19:17 GMT
#22790
On October 14 2014 04:11 plogamer wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 13 2014 23:40 antiRW wrote:
On October 13 2014 23:30 Thieving Magpie wrote:
On October 13 2014 23:16 Big J wrote:
On October 13 2014 22:41 Thieving Magpie wrote:
On October 13 2014 22:29 HEADD wrote:
I see TVZ strongly unbalanced right now.With recent Thor buff and widow mine buff without reverting hellbats buff.
I think this will balance the game:

1-revert helbatt buff-This prevent zerg from having good early economy+forcing him to banelings
2-revert thor buff-this is just stupid buff.Complete anti muta buff.Not necessary at all and pretty much forcing zerg not use mutas at all.
3-widow mine slightly nerf-Not in same state 3 moths ago, but slightly nerf, because i seen so many times 1 widow mine kills 20banelings in 1 hit.This is just not right.1 little mistake by zerg and ist game ending.
I think 70-80% of current splash damage would be OK.

Terrans will have still decent widow mines, but not that good that they can wipe 20 banelings with 1 hit and zergs still need micro.


Then why does Zerg win more often than Terran does according to aligulac?


Sorry, but most of the stats of aligulac are not interesting for the highest level of balance. Even if it is only 50% it is a big problem if we judge balance by this. Here are the stats of all the tournaments minus WCS America that took place in the last two days:
Seacraft Weekly #24:
TvZ 7–1 (87.50%)
Notable TvZs: ???

WECG Qualifier Korea Playoffs:
TvZ 3–2 (60.00%)
Notable TvZs: Dark vs Ty

Gfinity 1v1 Cup #31
TvZ 0–0 (0%)
Notable TvZs: ---

go4sc2 Cup Europe #413
TvZ 8–9 (47.06%)
Notable TvZs:
YoDa 1-2 TargA
Dragon 0–2 Tefel

PxL-Lan #41
TvZ 1–4 (20.00%)
Notable TvZs: ???



--> 25/35 (71%) games are not even worth mentioning when discussing balance on a high level in that periode of time.
It's complete bonkers to watch aligulac stats and then make so exact statements as "Zerg is winning more than Terran because 48%". Yes, in the aligulac coverage it is. If we don't arbitrarily cut by tournament participation and take a different "arbitrary" cut, namely WCS Premier Leagues, this is what we get:


WCS AM: 27-15 (64%)
WCS EU: 25 - 21 (54%)
GSL Code S: 19-13 (59%)


And I do not like the practice of "these numbers that don't agree with my conclusions are wrong" bible thumper mentality.

You take all of the data, all of the different degrees of the data, and have each aspect of the data inform different parts of the conclusion.

Individual player performance shows what is possible. Totality of player performances shows what is happening. You have to integrate what is possible with what is happening to be able to make conclusions about anything.



... which was exactly his point. Namely that statements such as "nothing is broken because aligulac's 48%" are not useful, because aligulac along is not reflective of the full picture.


Please explain why zergs are still attacking from 1 direction with no flanks with muta/ling/bling; the fastest moving army comp in the game. That was how Scarlett beat Bomber with mass banes before mine-nerf was reverted (vs Z). That was how soO fought against Innovation, and lost after the patch.

Spoiled zergs are gonna have to take a few spanking before they learn to use their mobility to flank their opponents.

It´s because we have so many different upgrades that we don´t have time to concentrate on engagements as upgrade management takes all of our limited attention.
Big J
Profile Joined March 2011
Austria16289 Posts
October 13 2014 19:30 GMT
#22791
On October 14 2014 04:11 plogamer wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 13 2014 23:40 antiRW wrote:
On October 13 2014 23:30 Thieving Magpie wrote:
On October 13 2014 23:16 Big J wrote:
On October 13 2014 22:41 Thieving Magpie wrote:
On October 13 2014 22:29 HEADD wrote:
I see TVZ strongly unbalanced right now.With recent Thor buff and widow mine buff without reverting hellbats buff.
I think this will balance the game:

1-revert helbatt buff-This prevent zerg from having good early economy+forcing him to banelings
2-revert thor buff-this is just stupid buff.Complete anti muta buff.Not necessary at all and pretty much forcing zerg not use mutas at all.
3-widow mine slightly nerf-Not in same state 3 moths ago, but slightly nerf, because i seen so many times 1 widow mine kills 20banelings in 1 hit.This is just not right.1 little mistake by zerg and ist game ending.
I think 70-80% of current splash damage would be OK.

Terrans will have still decent widow mines, but not that good that they can wipe 20 banelings with 1 hit and zergs still need micro.


Then why does Zerg win more often than Terran does according to aligulac?


Sorry, but most of the stats of aligulac are not interesting for the highest level of balance. Even if it is only 50% it is a big problem if we judge balance by this. Here are the stats of all the tournaments minus WCS America that took place in the last two days:
Seacraft Weekly #24:
TvZ 7–1 (87.50%)
Notable TvZs: ???

WECG Qualifier Korea Playoffs:
TvZ 3–2 (60.00%)
Notable TvZs: Dark vs Ty

Gfinity 1v1 Cup #31
TvZ 0–0 (0%)
Notable TvZs: ---

go4sc2 Cup Europe #413
TvZ 8–9 (47.06%)
Notable TvZs:
YoDa 1-2 TargA
Dragon 0–2 Tefel

PxL-Lan #41
TvZ 1–4 (20.00%)
Notable TvZs: ???



--> 25/35 (71%) games are not even worth mentioning when discussing balance on a high level in that periode of time.
It's complete bonkers to watch aligulac stats and then make so exact statements as "Zerg is winning more than Terran because 48%". Yes, in the aligulac coverage it is. If we don't arbitrarily cut by tournament participation and take a different "arbitrary" cut, namely WCS Premier Leagues, this is what we get:


WCS AM: 27-15 (64%)
WCS EU: 25 - 21 (54%)
GSL Code S: 19-13 (59%)


And I do not like the practice of "these numbers that don't agree with my conclusions are wrong" bible thumper mentality.

You take all of the data, all of the different degrees of the data, and have each aspect of the data inform different parts of the conclusion.

Individual player performance shows what is possible. Totality of player performances shows what is happening. You have to integrate what is possible with what is happening to be able to make conclusions about anything.



... which was exactly his point. Namely that statements such as "nothing is broken because aligulac's 48%" are not useful, because aligulac along is not reflective of the full picture.


Please explain why zergs are still attacking from 1 direction with no flanks with muta/ling/bling; the fastest moving army comp in the game. That was how Scarlett beat Bomber with mass banes before mine-nerf was reverted (vs Z). That was how soO fought against Innovation, and lost after the patch.

Spoiled zergs are gonna have to take a few spanking before they learn to use their mobility to flank their opponents.

Personally, I'm just too stupid. I can barely remember to breath while typing!
Thieving Magpie
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
United States6752 Posts
October 13 2014 20:22 GMT
#22792
@antiRW

That is fascinating work and greatly supports a lot of previous theories of Terran being the hardest race as it seems that the higher the percieve skill levels of the players, the higher the overall winrates is for Terran. Conversely, the lower the overall skill rate of the population, the better it is for non-terrans. I've never seen such definitive proof that it's a player skill problem and not a race problem. Thank you!
Hark, what baseball through yonder window breaks?
Tuczniak
Profile Joined September 2010
1561 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-10-13 20:29:37
October 13 2014 20:25 GMT
#22793
On October 14 2014 05:22 Thieving Magpie wrote:
@antiRW

That is fascinating work and greatly supports a lot of previous theories of Terran being the hardest race as it seems that the higher the percieve skill levels of the players, the higher the overall winrates is for Terran. Conversely, the lower the overall skill rate of the population, the better it is for non-terrans. I've never seen such definitive proof that it's a player skill problem and not a race problem. Thank you!
Any system with 3 races with an imbalance would look like this with this method. This is not a proof of anything.

Not that I disagree with your claim though.
Thieving Magpie
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
United States6752 Posts
October 13 2014 20:41 GMT
#22794
On October 14 2014 05:25 Tuczniak wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 14 2014 05:22 Thieving Magpie wrote:
@antiRW

That is fascinating work and greatly supports a lot of previous theories of Terran being the hardest race as it seems that the higher the percieve skill levels of the players, the higher the overall winrates is for Terran. Conversely, the lower the overall skill rate of the population, the better it is for non-terrans. I've never seen such definitive proof that it's a player skill problem and not a race problem. Thank you!
Any system with 3 races with an imbalance would look like this with this method. This is not a proof of anything.

Not that I disagree with your claim though.


I guess I'm too stupid to see what you mean.

How can a race be too powerful if only the best players can use it?
Hark, what baseball through yonder window breaks?
Deleted User 137586
Profile Joined January 2011
7859 Posts
October 13 2014 20:44 GMT
#22795
On October 14 2014 05:41 Thieving Magpie wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 14 2014 05:25 Tuczniak wrote:
On October 14 2014 05:22 Thieving Magpie wrote:
@antiRW

That is fascinating work and greatly supports a lot of previous theories of Terran being the hardest race as it seems that the higher the percieve skill levels of the players, the higher the overall winrates is for Terran. Conversely, the lower the overall skill rate of the population, the better it is for non-terrans. I've never seen such definitive proof that it's a player skill problem and not a race problem. Thank you!
Any system with 3 races with an imbalance would look like this with this method. This is not a proof of anything.

Not that I disagree with your claim though.


I guess I'm too stupid to see what you mean.

How can a race be too powerful if only the best players can use it?


I think the argument is that there will be more top players for that race.
Cry 'havoc' and let slip the dogs of war
Tuczniak
Profile Joined September 2010
1561 Posts
October 13 2014 20:50 GMT
#22796
On October 14 2014 05:44 Ghanburighan wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 14 2014 05:41 Thieving Magpie wrote:
On October 14 2014 05:25 Tuczniak wrote:
On October 14 2014 05:22 Thieving Magpie wrote:
@antiRW

That is fascinating work and greatly supports a lot of previous theories of Terran being the hardest race as it seems that the higher the percieve skill levels of the players, the higher the overall winrates is for Terran. Conversely, the lower the overall skill rate of the population, the better it is for non-terrans. I've never seen such definitive proof that it's a player skill problem and not a race problem. Thank you!
Any system with 3 races with an imbalance would look like this with this method. This is not a proof of anything.

Not that I disagree with your claim though.


I guess I'm too stupid to see what you mean.

How can a race be too powerful if only the best players can use it?


I think the argument is that there will be more top players for that race.
I meant that Top100 will always have winrates closer to 50% than Top50. And that's because in Top100 there is a lot more games with big skill difference between players for example TLO vs Innovation. No matter the balance state, this game will most likely end up with Innovation winning. Those games are more common in top100 and naturally will push winrates towards 50%.
PS: sorry TLO
Swisslink
Profile Joined March 2011
2954 Posts
October 13 2014 20:50 GMT
#22797
On October 14 2014 05:22 Thieving Magpie wrote:
@antiRW

That is fascinating work and greatly supports a lot of previous theories of Terran being the hardest race as it seems that the higher the percieve skill levels of the players, the higher the overall winrates is for Terran. Conversely, the lower the overall skill rate of the population, the better it is for non-terrans. I've never seen such definitive proof that it's a player skill problem and not a race problem. Thank you!


Well...
It might be true, that the Terrans are stronger at the highest level of play. But THAT's the level of play where it should be about even. And no, it's not at all a proof that it's a player skill problem, because the Zerg up there should be about even in skill - yet they still struggle quite hard.
10bulgares
Profile Joined September 2013
352 Posts
October 13 2014 20:51 GMT
#22798
On October 14 2014 05:44 Ghanburighan wrote:
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On October 14 2014 05:41 Thieving Magpie wrote:
On October 14 2014 05:25 Tuczniak wrote:
On October 14 2014 05:22 Thieving Magpie wrote:
@antiRW

That is fascinating work and greatly supports a lot of previous theories of Terran being the hardest race as it seems that the higher the percieve skill levels of the players, the higher the overall winrates is for Terran. Conversely, the lower the overall skill rate of the population, the better it is for non-terrans. I've never seen such definitive proof that it's a player skill problem and not a race problem. Thank you!
Any system with 3 races with an imbalance would look like this with this method. This is not a proof of anything.

Not that I disagree with your claim though.


I guess I'm too stupid to see what you mean.

How can a race be too powerful if only the best players can use it?


I think the argument is that there will be more top players for that race.


Or rather that when there are imbalances, there should be more imbalance between the best players since they are less subject to randomness due to skills.
10bulgares
Profile Joined September 2013
352 Posts
October 13 2014 20:57 GMT
#22799
On October 14 2014 05:51 10bulgares wrote:
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On October 14 2014 05:44 Ghanburighan wrote:
On October 14 2014 05:41 Thieving Magpie wrote:
On October 14 2014 05:25 Tuczniak wrote:
On October 14 2014 05:22 Thieving Magpie wrote:
@antiRW

That is fascinating work and greatly supports a lot of previous theories of Terran being the hardest race as it seems that the higher the percieve skill levels of the players, the higher the overall winrates is for Terran. Conversely, the lower the overall skill rate of the population, the better it is for non-terrans. I've never seen such definitive proof that it's a player skill problem and not a race problem. Thank you!
Any system with 3 races with an imbalance would look like this with this method. This is not a proof of anything.

Not that I disagree with your claim though.


I guess I'm too stupid to see what you mean.

How can a race be too powerful if only the best players can use it?


I think the argument is that there will be more top players for that race.


Or rather that when there are imbalances, there should be more imbalance between the best players since they are less subject to randomness due to skills.


I mean imbalances without randomness gives 100% win for the imba race.
Thieving Magpie
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
United States6752 Posts
October 13 2014 21:05 GMT
#22800
Huh, it looks like there's a lot of different ways to interpret the data set provided so it equally supports opposite conclusions. That sucks
Hark, what baseball through yonder window breaks?
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