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Oiseaux
Profile Joined May 2011
United States676 Posts
July 29 2012 01:07 GMT
#41
At least with this season where not every team played the same amount of games due to seeds, I don't really see any way to create a statistic in a way that SeeKeR is trying to represent. I think Nazgul's is better in general, but it still suffers from the same problem. Plus such a statistic sort goes against the grain of what a team league is supposed to be about; the team, not the individual.

Tangent, I'm surprised nobody is crying SPOILERS! yet (thank god).
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Daigomi
Profile Blog Joined May 2006
South Africa4316 Posts
July 29 2012 01:13 GMT
#42
On July 29 2012 09:59 FairForever wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 29 2012 09:58 Daigomi wrote:
On July 29 2012 09:27 Liquid`Nazgul wrote:
What a misusage of statistics.

10-2 should be seen as +8 wins and 11-4 as +7. Total amount of wins is a useless statistic in a league where not everyone plays the same amount.

(For whoever said 7-1 should be better than 11-4 I don't think you can defend that with logic and uphold a normal ranking. By most reasoning you would end up with 2-0 beating both those scores.)

I'd disagree. It's not a misusage of statistics, it's just statistics used for a different purpose than you would have used it for. They wanted to know who won the most games, which is clearly CoCa. The questions wasn't who was the MVP or who had the best record, in which case net wins or even win percentage might be a more relevant. The fact of the matter is that CoCa contributed the most wins to his team of any player, and that's why he gets the interview. You get the same award in all sports: Most goals scored, most medals won, etc. None of these awards take the number of games played into consideration, they simply look at who did the most.

So yeah, I think this is perfectly valid. Whether it says anything about who was the best player of the season is a different question.


If you put it that way then the title is pretty misleading - I wouldn't say CoCa is #1 in the GSTL at all...

Likewise, in the NBA, mid-season, people typically rank teams based on either W/L % or highest differential, not based on who has the most wins at any one point in time.

I'm not sure, CoCa is #1 in the GSTL in terms of wins which is a perfectly valid metric. It might not be your preferred metric, but it's not biased or unfair. In tennis, Sharapova is #1 in the world according to points even though Serena Williams is arguably a better player, she just doesn't compete in as many tournaments.

In the NBA, mid-season rankings are based on the assumption that all teams will eventually play the same number of games. As such, ranking teams by their winning percentage is a good indication of who will end up with the most wins. The comparison is obviously not valid for this situation, and even so, I think the NBA is an exception. The British Premier League is always ranked according to current points, and the same goes for pretty much every other league I've ever seen.

If you really want to go into the subjective judgement of who was the best of the season, it should be noted that of all the players on the list, CoCa played the most games by far. That's perhaps indicative of how he was used. For one, it seems like Slayers relied more on Coca than MVP did on Sniper (7-1), for example. A player who goes 7-1 might be used more regularly as a closer or a sniper than a person who is 11-4 (who is very open to being sniped). I'm not arguing that CoCa was the best player this season, I'm just pointing out that there are reasons why most wins could be used as a metric for best player.

But as I said in my first post, the posted article is about who won the most games, not about who the best player is. And the answer to that question is CoCa.
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figq
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
12519 Posts
July 29 2012 01:22 GMT
#43
Guys, this is team league, and includes elimination phase(s), instead of being full round-robin. This award is for being the most valuable player for his team, not for being the best player individually. That means, you are more valuable if you help your team play at higher stages, and also your wins there are more valuable. It's also a KotH format, which means you play either until you lose, or until your team wins. That makes your number of lost games less relevant than your number of won games. But let's just look at their record in all stages:

final
C -1
S (not played)

semi-final
C 3
S 1-1

round2
C 7-2
S -1

round1
C 1-1
S 9-0

I think it's very clear who was more valuable for his team overall.

It's also worth noting that Coca did not perform nearly as well as Symbol in individual leagues outside of GSTL - that means Coca dedicated a lot of personal effort for his team and for GSTL, even if he might not be at the monster level Symbol is right now.
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Seeker *
Profile Blog Joined April 2005
Where dat snitch at?37120 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-07-29 01:33:13
July 29 2012 01:32 GMT
#44
You know what I just noticed? Brown should get more credit now...

What (P)Brown accomplished:

  • Stopped Symbol from gaining momentum
  • Sniped TSL's best player
  • Prevented Symbol from adding anymore wins and stealing away the #1 spot from CoCa
  • Proved that his PvZ was still unstoppable
  • Went into total baws mode even though his father was against it

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Catatonic
Profile Joined August 2011
United States699 Posts
July 29 2012 01:36 GMT
#45
On July 29 2012 08:39 SomeONEx wrote:
I say that 7-1 > 11-4, Sniper should be #1.

Going by amount of wins no way man haha
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EG.Thorzain
Profile Joined May 2010
Sweden164 Posts
July 29 2012 01:37 GMT
#46
CoCa so siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick
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Bibbit
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada5377 Posts
July 29 2012 01:39 GMT
#47
Looking at a lot of the posts in this thread, I could have never imagined that Slayers didnt actually win the GSTL :O
vthree
Profile Joined November 2011
Hong Kong8039 Posts
July 29 2012 01:43 GMT
#48
On July 29 2012 09:59 FairForever wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 29 2012 09:58 Daigomi wrote:
On July 29 2012 09:27 Liquid`Nazgul wrote:
What a misusage of statistics.

10-2 should be seen as +8 wins and 11-4 as +7. Total amount of wins is a useless statistic in a league where not everyone plays the same amount.

(For whoever said 7-1 should be better than 11-4 I don't think you can defend that with logic and uphold a normal ranking. By most reasoning you would end up with 2-0 beating both those scores.)

I'd disagree. It's not a misusage of statistics, it's just statistics used for a different purpose than you would have used it for. They wanted to know who won the most games, which is clearly CoCa. The questions wasn't who was the MVP or who had the best record, in which case net wins or even win percentage might be a more relevant. The fact of the matter is that CoCa contributed the most wins to his team of any player, and that's why he gets the interview. You get the same award in all sports: Most goals scored, most medals won, etc. None of these awards take the number of games played into consideration, they simply look at who did the most.

So yeah, I think this is perfectly valid. Whether it says anything about who was the best player of the season is a different question.


If you put it that way then the title is pretty misleading - I wouldn't say CoCa is #1 in the GSTL at all...

Likewise, in the NBA, mid-season, people typically rank teams based on either W/L % or highest differential, not based on who has the most wins at any one point in time.



Because NBA mid season ranks is important? By end of season, every team plays the same number of games. These rankings are fine. It is like most wins by a pitcher, most wins by goalie...
opterown *
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Australia54785 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-07-29 02:06:55
July 29 2012 02:04 GMT
#49
On July 29 2012 10:22 figq wrote:
Guys, this is team league, and includes elimination phase(s), instead of being full round-robin. This award is for being the most valuable player for his team, not for being the best player individually. That means, you are more valuable if you help your team play at higher stages, and also your wins there are more valuable. It's also a KotH format, which means you play either until you lose, or until your team wins. That makes your number of lost games less relevant than your number of won games. But let's just look at their record in all stages:

final
C -1
S (not played)

semi-final
C 3
S 1-1

round2
C 7-2
S -1

round1
C 1-1
S 9-0

I think it's very clear who was more valuable for his team overall.

It's also worth noting that Coca did not perform nearly as well as Symbol in individual leagues outside of GSTL - that means Coca dedicated a lot of personal effort for his team and for GSTL, even if he might not be at the monster level Symbol is right now.

the problem with this metric is that the Gold Card should be awarded to an FXO player, not a losing team's player
i think that's how it's been done every other season
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NoGasfOu
Profile Joined April 2012
United States1117 Posts
July 29 2012 02:24 GMT
#50
....or maybe Gumiho should get the title since he won the most games on the most important day.
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opterown *
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Australia54785 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-07-29 02:30:23
July 29 2012 02:30 GMT
#51
On July 29 2012 11:24 NoGasfOu wrote:
....or maybe Gumiho should get the title since he won the most games on the most important day.

this, MMA won the Gold Card in GSTL 2/3 even though he only won a handful of games.
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figq
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
12519 Posts
July 29 2012 02:30 GMT
#52
No, no, the metric is very clear - total number of wins. I'm just illustrating a particular case why this metric actually does work to show who's been more valuable within these rules.

Basically, the number of losses is almost irrelevant, you are supposed to lose every time you get out for your team, eventually, unless you close the whole match. A player with more losses just has played for his team a lot more.
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ShowTheLights
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
Korea (South)1718 Posts
July 29 2012 02:37 GMT
#53
On July 29 2012 10:37 Thorzain wrote:
CoCa so siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick


:D

too bad this is completely spoiled by the GSTL loss (( so fucking sad. also, CoCa hasnt even returned to Code A yet

oh well, yay CoCa..
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Seeker *
Profile Blog Joined April 2005
Where dat snitch at?37120 Posts
July 29 2012 02:51 GMT
#54
Just want to state something just in case:

I did not create that list of players you see in the OP. That was also done by TIG. I am not trying to prove anything by using those statistics. My job is to copy and paste
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Bagration
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United States18282 Posts
July 29 2012 12:58 GMT
#55
Wait, what? Is this the MVP Gold Card? Wasn't that reserved only for a player on the championship team? Or is this article simply stating that Coca got the most wins and was simply an acknowledgement?

Basically is Coca getting an award, or just a tip of the hat?
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Dexington
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Canada7276 Posts
July 29 2012 13:01 GMT
#56
On July 29 2012 08:51 NeMeSiS3 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 29 2012 08:45 Apolo wrote:
On July 29 2012 08:39 SomeONEx wrote:
I say that 7-1 > 11-4, Sniper should be #1.


By that logic someone 3-0 > 7-1 should be #1


I disagree with this assessment, for instance it shows Symbol as 10-2 which is better than 11-4 : D but I agree 3-0 shouldnt > 7-1 but 11-4 shouldn't > 7-1 imo


I'm really not following this logic.
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B.I.G.
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
3251 Posts
July 29 2012 13:18 GMT
#57
On July 29 2012 08:48 NoGasfOu wrote:
I think Symbol and Life are more impressive with records of 10-2 and 9-2, respectively. Symbol is the king of them all with the highest winning percentage.

wow your really good at looking at numbers
bokchoi
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Korea (South)9498 Posts
July 29 2012 13:18 GMT
#58
The problem with using map difference in GSTL is that the season is short so its hard to really assess how impressive one persons 3-1 is to someones 4-2 or whatever. For FIFA the golden boot is most goals, not best goal ratio, same idea.
digmouse
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
China6332 Posts
July 29 2012 13:19 GMT
#59
Rank 3: GuMiho 9 - 3 75.0%
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crbox
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada1181 Posts
July 29 2012 13:27 GMT
#60
I think the winner shouldn't be throned just by sheer numbers, but instead have a vote for something.

Symbol's GSTL run was far more impressive imo, without taking anything away from CoCa
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