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Maenander
Profile Joined November 2002
Germany4927 Posts
September 17 2011 07:51 GMT
#621
There seems to be a difference of 15-20 between long (> 20 minutes) and short games (10-15 minutes) in my case. I am much better at macroing in the early stages I guess.
DrShaiHulud
Profile Joined April 2011
United States14 Posts
September 17 2011 08:06 GMT
#622
Great work collecting all that data! I would love it if you would release it as plain text or something.

Alas you did not record which matchup each game was, only the race of one of the players. It would have been even more awesome if that was in the data so one could tease out matchup specific effects that vanish when we average over all matchups of a single race.

I would love it if someone made a website where people could submit information like this for aggregation, even with self-selection it would fascinate me!
IMNotMvp
Profile Joined May 2011
Korea (South)530 Posts
September 17 2011 08:08 GMT
#623
great, congratulations
figq
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
12519 Posts
September 17 2011 08:18 GMT
#624
On September 17 2011 16:37 rauk wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 17 2011 15:49 figq wrote:
On September 17 2011 14:53 Azzur wrote:
I believe there are definite gaps between leagues. The empirical data supports what many higher level players know intuitively.
Bronze and GrandMaster overlap (marked area):
[image loading]
Let alone the closer leagues. So we can hardly talk of gaps between leagues. There is scaling in the averages, but there is still quite a lot of variation within a league, and between different games of the same player.


there are obviously gaps between the leagues, you just don't know how to read the graph. the overlapping parts are at very low game counts, so essentially the fewer games there are, the more likely the leagues are to overlap. as you increase the sample size, the gaps become more distinguished.
Your last sentence has a couple of things wrong:
1. There's no such implication here: fewer games -> more likely to overlap
2. There's only one sample size here - of the whole study. And we can only assume if it is increased that the curves will scale proportionately.

What you meant to re-iterate with that sentence is that the overlap is relatively small to the overall sample size. That is obviously true, but it still exists and is not negligible. And even more so the closer the leagues are. Whereas to claim gaps would mean that two neighboring leagues (the closest) do not overlap at all. Which would be practically impossible by any measure, not just SQ. Luckily, the OP doesn't claim that at all.
If you stand next to my head, you can hear the ocean. - Day[9]
seiferoth10
Profile Joined May 2010
3362 Posts
September 17 2011 08:19 GMT
#625
Wow, I'm actually in awe of how amazing this post is. Shut up and take my e-money!
kedinik
Profile Joined September 2010
United States352 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-17 08:24:12
September 17 2011 08:22 GMT
#626
On September 17 2011 16:00 Ghanburighan wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 17 2011 15:49 figq wrote:
On September 17 2011 14:53 Azzur wrote:
I believe there are definite gaps between leagues. The empirical data supports what many higher level players know intuitively.
Bronze and GrandMaster overlap (marked area):
[image loading]
Let alone the closer leagues. So we can hardly talk of gaps between leagues. There is scaling in the averages, but there is still quite a lot of variation within a league, and between different games of the same player.


I don't see the problem. This is an average measure, and if you compare a 9 minute game of a bronzie where he hits a 3 rax timing attack (just over 600) to a GM micro-intensive game long game, it's much more likely for that bronzie to get a higher score on that one game. It's just a very small number of games. Also, some good players get accounts that they need to play out of bronze, so those 30ish games would contribute to the overlap too.


I guarantee, 100%, that no legitimate bronze league player can out-macro a GM for even 2 solid minutes. Even during the best game of his life against a GM who is drunk off his ass, an accurate comparison of any relevant metric would show them to be night and day.

The SQ just seems to loosely correlate to macro and skill without really measuring or displaying anything truly insightful, valuable or accurate.
Chaosvuistje
Profile Joined April 2010
Netherlands2581 Posts
September 17 2011 08:24 GMT
#627
O_O wow.... just wow. Hats off to you good sir.
spidercrumbs
Profile Joined September 2011
United States23 Posts
September 17 2011 08:36 GMT
#628
This as a truly entraining read if nothing else (and I think it is more than just that).

I checked my SQ over my last 12 games (I played 2 games after I first did calculations) and I averaged a ~46 which is consistent with my bronze ranking according to your analysis.
VonDarkmore
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Australia193 Posts
September 17 2011 08:42 GMT
#629
Great information very interesting read, I commend you for having the patients and commitment to gather and share so much information in an excellent format, awesome job.
One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little
Ciraxis
Profile Joined June 2010
Australia400 Posts
September 17 2011 08:43 GMT
#630
My SQ is 56 which places me in Platinum though I'm in Silver. Not entirely surprising, because I always felt that my macro was better than my unit composition/micro. This is a great tool for macro development. I will continue using your formula. Thanks again.
StiX
Profile Joined September 2010
Netherlands220 Posts
September 17 2011 08:49 GMT
#631
Wow whatthefuck, I love you for doing this.
Even though I only understand half of it!
"Think for yourself, question authority" Timothy Leary
rauk
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States2228 Posts
September 17 2011 08:54 GMT
#632
On September 17 2011 17:18 figq wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 17 2011 16:37 rauk wrote:
On September 17 2011 15:49 figq wrote:
On September 17 2011 14:53 Azzur wrote:
I believe there are definite gaps between leagues. The empirical data supports what many higher level players know intuitively.
Bronze and GrandMaster overlap (marked area):
[image loading]
Let alone the closer leagues. So we can hardly talk of gaps between leagues. There is scaling in the averages, but there is still quite a lot of variation within a league, and between different games of the same player.


there are obviously gaps between the leagues, you just don't know how to read the graph. the overlapping parts are at very low game counts, so essentially the fewer games there are, the more likely the leagues are to overlap. as you increase the sample size, the gaps become more distinguished.
Your last sentence has a couple of things wrong:
1. There's no such implication here: fewer games -> more likely to overlap
2. There's only one sample size here - of the whole study. And we can only assume if it is increased that the curves will scale proportionately.

What you meant to re-iterate with that sentence is that the overlap is relatively small to the overall sample size. That is obviously true, but it still exists and is not negligible. And even more so the closer the leagues are. Whereas to claim gaps would mean that two neighboring leagues (the closest) do not overlap at all. Which would be practically impossible by any measure, not just SQ. Luckily, the OP doesn't claim that at all.


? you've got to be trolling me. the y axis of the graph is the number of games. as the number of games go up, the less two different leagues will overlap on the SQ x-axis. the OP appears to have not gone with the same number of games per league, which makes the graph a little visually misleading. as you increase the sample size per league, ie the number of games played, eg as you go up the y-axis, you can can see how the average SQ increases, and that the difference between the average SQ for each league starts to widen.
zanmat0
Profile Joined December 2010
188 Posts
September 17 2011 09:01 GMT
#633
Blizzard should hire you. Battle.net would be so much more interesting if this kind of information was available on our Profile Pages. Alas, they seem to be dumbing down the system instead (no more Losses shown below Masters for example)...
straycat
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
230 Posts
September 17 2011 09:04 GMT
#634
How is the Average Unspent Resources calculated?
Velatrix
Profile Joined December 2010
Germany37 Posts
September 17 2011 09:04 GMT
#635
545.4166666666666 1124.9166666666667 79.79500593435598

Protoss Player Masters at EU Gonna do the same on my NA acc ^^ rly awesome work
killerdog
Profile Joined February 2010
Denmark6522 Posts
September 17 2011 09:05 GMT
#636
might have been mentioned already but i dont think you took into account the fact that even at grandmaster level, protoss has to wait for rounds of warpins, or all races have to wait for enough resources to build an expo, or terran/zerg needs to wait for round of marines/larvae injects. there are lots of things stopping them keeping their recources constantly at zero, so mabye if you work out how much a round of production costs (on average) and different points in the game, and then subtract half of that from the average unspent rescource, (mabye modifyin based on game length) then you might be able to exclude the neccesary build up.
skiptomylou1231
Profile Joined January 2011
United States63 Posts
September 17 2011 09:06 GMT
#637
On September 17 2011 18:04 straycat wrote:
How is the Average Unspent Resources calculated?


It's available when you click Economy Breakdown
reneg
Profile Joined September 2010
United States859 Posts
September 17 2011 09:06 GMT
#638
extremely interesting information.

As for everyone asking for this information from the get go, that's basically what your league is supposed to provide. If you're in plat, you spend money like a plat player, etc etc.

I feel like including more unnecessary things on your profile page would turn more people off from laddering as it is, because people will hit a streak of 5 games or something where they're feeling really good, then stop laddering because they're afraid their "Spending Quotient" is going to plummet.

But still, absolutely fantastic work and we all obviously like what you've done
moose...indian
aebriol
Profile Joined April 2010
Norway2066 Posts
September 17 2011 09:06 GMT
#639
This is an awesome analysis, my thanks to the original poster !
blackbrrd
Profile Joined September 2010
Norway477 Posts
September 17 2011 09:14 GMT
#640
This is probably the best post I have ever read on teamliquid. Managing to quantify macro skill so that anybody can check how they are doing is just awesome.!
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