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nuogaiyen
Profile Joined May 2012
United States42 Posts
January 10 2014 03:26 GMT
#41
I think one of the problem is that if you plan on beating Protoss, you've got to put in major work, TVP the best you could ask for is a even trade in a fight, and that's already really good for Terran. If you mis-micro or slip on your macro you're going to get trampled over so hard. So why do you have to out micro and macro a Protoss just to get an even fight? And it does not reciprocate the other way? uh...imbalanced?
Chaggi
Profile Joined August 2010
Korea (South)1936 Posts
January 10 2014 03:26 GMT
#42
On January 10 2014 12:16 Bagi wrote:
So the mantra seems to be to stare at the winrates and as long as they fit a certain criteria, the games fine?

A bit depressing. TvP is a mess of a match-up loaded with unpredictable all-ins and an unplayable lategame.


It's painful because that's exactly what made PvZ so stupid in WoL

You either win with a soul train or lose to brood lord infestor. But it's okay! 50%!
ZAiNs
Profile Joined July 2010
United Kingdom6525 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-10 03:28:59
January 10 2014 03:28 GMT
#43
Glad that we're getting more constant updates. I wish he'd mention the Swarm Host though .

On January 10 2014 12:26 Chaggi wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 10 2014 12:16 Bagi wrote:
So the mantra seems to be to stare at the winrates and as long as they fit a certain criteria, the games fine?

A bit depressing. TvP is a mess of a match-up loaded with unpredictable all-ins and an unplayable lategame.


It's painful because that's exactly what made PvZ so stupid in WoL

You either win with a soul train or lose to brood lord infestor. But it's okay! 50%!

Watch Proleague, PvTs are nothing like that...
BadBorz
Profile Joined June 2012
Canada61 Posts
January 10 2014 03:29 GMT
#44
protoss race for sons of a bitches without any skill be master without any skill and practicing with 50 apm go die blizzard

User was temp banned for this post.
Liquid`Ret
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
Netherlands4523 Posts
January 10 2014 03:30 GMT
#45
This skill factor being forced out, does it mean when players with higher MMR win it doesnt count? Im confused...

Wouldnt whatever race is imba naturally have higher MMR (Get promoted, fill up GM, fill up top masters, etc) than they should because they are winning more than they should? In that case this way of examaning data is a way to sugar coat the statistics.
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itsjustatank
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Hong Kong9179 Posts
January 10 2014 03:33 GMT
#46
On January 10 2014 12:30 Liquid`Ret wrote:
This skill factor being forced out, does it mean when players with higher MMR win it doesnt count? Im confused...

Wouldnt whatever race is imba naturally have higher MMR (Get promoted, fill up GM, fill up top masters, etc) than they should because they are winning more than they should? In that case this way of examaning data is a way to sugar coat the statistics.


Yeah. To me, filtering both player skill (by Elo or some variant, probably) and race strength (wat) make zero sense to me when you are attempting to present the statistics of the population as a whole in an attempt to explain things.
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StutteR
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States1903 Posts
January 10 2014 03:33 GMT
#47
If they're using that many games as a sample, should they even need to account for those things? Why not just give us the real stats straight up?
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IncubusSC
Profile Joined December 2013
Canada57 Posts
January 10 2014 03:34 GMT
#48
lol uses a 6 day statistic sample to support his argument, then says that one tournament is too small of a sample size.

What a fucking goon, it's hilarious how he hasn't been fired for his incompetence.

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blade55555
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States17423 Posts
January 10 2014 03:36 GMT
#49
On January 10 2014 12:28 ZAiNs wrote:
Glad that we're getting more constant updates. I wish he'd mention the Swarm Host though .

Show nested quote +
On January 10 2014 12:26 Chaggi wrote:
On January 10 2014 12:16 Bagi wrote:
So the mantra seems to be to stare at the winrates and as long as they fit a certain criteria, the games fine?

A bit depressing. TvP is a mess of a match-up loaded with unpredictable all-ins and an unplayable lategame.


It's painful because that's exactly what made PvZ so stupid in WoL

You either win with a soul train or lose to brood lord infestor. But it's okay! 50%!

Watch Proleague, PvTs are nothing like that...


Take out the swarmhost or nerf it without nerfing protoss late game = zerg never win :D
When I think of something else, something will go here
pmp10
Profile Joined April 2012
3398 Posts
January 10 2014 03:38 GMT
#50
Nonsensical argument but overall this is a good decision for us.
The changes they proposed were only going to do more harm and he will have less room to ignore problems next time.
Bagi
Profile Joined August 2010
Germany6799 Posts
January 10 2014 03:38 GMT
#51
On January 10 2014 12:28 ZAiNs wrote:
Glad that we're getting more constant updates. I wish he'd mention the Swarm Host though .

Show nested quote +
On January 10 2014 12:26 Chaggi wrote:
On January 10 2014 12:16 Bagi wrote:
So the mantra seems to be to stare at the winrates and as long as they fit a certain criteria, the games fine?

A bit depressing. TvP is a mess of a match-up loaded with unpredictable all-ins and an unplayable lategame.


It's painful because that's exactly what made PvZ so stupid in WoL

You either win with a soul train or lose to brood lord infestor. But it's okay! 50%!

Watch Proleague, PvTs are nothing like that...

Yeah proleague is a bunch of blink all ins and Maru killing 30 probes with a hellion drop.

Seriously stop namedropping proleague so much, the sample size is beyond tiny.
Musicus
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany23579 Posts
January 10 2014 03:38 GMT
#52
On January 10 2014 12:36 blade55555 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 10 2014 12:28 ZAiNs wrote:
Glad that we're getting more constant updates. I wish he'd mention the Swarm Host though .

On January 10 2014 12:26 Chaggi wrote:
On January 10 2014 12:16 Bagi wrote:
So the mantra seems to be to stare at the winrates and as long as they fit a certain criteria, the games fine?

A bit depressing. TvP is a mess of a match-up loaded with unpredictable all-ins and an unplayable lategame.


It's painful because that's exactly what made PvZ so stupid in WoL

You either win with a soul train or lose to brood lord infestor. But it's okay! 50%!

Watch Proleague, PvTs are nothing like that...


Take out the swarmhost or nerf it without nerfing protoss late game = zerg never win :D


Except Jaedong!
Maru and Serral are probably top 5.
Plansix
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States60190 Posts
January 10 2014 03:42 GMT
#53
On January 10 2014 12:33 itsjustatank wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 10 2014 12:30 Liquid`Ret wrote:
This skill factor being forced out, does it mean when players with higher MMR win it doesnt count? Im confused...

Wouldnt whatever race is imba naturally have higher MMR (Get promoted, fill up GM, fill up top masters, etc) than they should because they are winning more than they should? In that case this way of examaning data is a way to sugar coat the statistics.


Yeah. To me, filtering both player skill (by Elo or some variant, probably) and race strength (wat) make zero sense to me when you are attempting to present the statistics of the population as a whole in an attempt to explain things.

What other data would they use? There is not magic number that measures "skill" beyond a player's ability to beat their opponent.
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ssxsilver
Profile Joined June 2007
United States4409 Posts
January 10 2014 03:43 GMT
#54
On January 10 2014 12:28 ZAiNs wrote:
Glad that we're getting more constant updates. I wish he'd mention the Swarm Host though .

Show nested quote +
On January 10 2014 12:26 Chaggi wrote:
On January 10 2014 12:16 Bagi wrote:
So the mantra seems to be to stare at the winrates and as long as they fit a certain criteria, the games fine?

A bit depressing. TvP is a mess of a match-up loaded with unpredictable all-ins and an unplayable lategame.


It's painful because that's exactly what made PvZ so stupid in WoL

You either win with a soul train or lose to brood lord infestor. But it's okay! 50%!

Watch Proleague, PvTs are nothing like that...

But look at the Terrans being fielded in PL. You've got a total of 1 Terran whose never been in Code A+ at any point...
Nebuchad
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
Switzerland12485 Posts
January 10 2014 03:44 GMT
#55
I love the fact that they stopped talking about protoss having an overall advantage and refocused on the advantage being in PvT. That was the thing that annoyed me the most in the last post. As to how the stats are calculated... It would probably matter if the stats were useful in themselves, which they are not.
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VasHeR
Profile Joined June 2011
166 Posts
January 10 2014 03:47 GMT
#56
On January 10 2014 12:44 Nebuchad wrote:
I love the fact that they stopped talking about protoss having an overall advantage and refocused on the advantage being in PvT. That was the thing that annoyed me the most in the last post. As to how the stats are calculated... It would probably matter if the stats were useful in themselves, which they are not.

lol wut? did you see the negative PvZ across all realms?
Brian333
Profile Joined August 2010
657 Posts
January 10 2014 03:48 GMT
#57
On January 10 2014 12:43 ssxsilver wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 10 2014 12:28 ZAiNs wrote:
Glad that we're getting more constant updates. I wish he'd mention the Swarm Host though .

On January 10 2014 12:26 Chaggi wrote:
On January 10 2014 12:16 Bagi wrote:
So the mantra seems to be to stare at the winrates and as long as they fit a certain criteria, the games fine?

A bit depressing. TvP is a mess of a match-up loaded with unpredictable all-ins and an unplayable lategame.


It's painful because that's exactly what made PvZ so stupid in WoL

You either win with a soul train or lose to brood lord infestor. But it's okay! 50%!

Watch Proleague, PvTs are nothing like that...

But look at the Terrans being fielded in PL. You've got a total of 1 Terran whose never been in Code A+ at any point...


You act as if the PL coaches are just rolling a dice before games to decide who gets sent out.

Of course it is based on practice results, in-house training, and planning. If a player is bad, they will not be sent out. They might be taking a calculated risk in terms of guessing match-ups, but it's also not like they have no time to prepare even when they guess wrong (outside of ace matches and winner's league).
ZenithM
Profile Joined February 2011
France15952 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-10 03:53:23
January 10 2014 03:48 GMT
#58
I don't get how they would ever statistically know if something like "Protoss being 2 times stronger than both the other races" happens.
I mean, you just have no way of knowing, right? Except from watching how the actual game plays out :D

And I don't recall any moment where the stats they pull out from their "skill-adjusted winrates" were more skewed than 45-55%, which I find weird, because in pro level, winrates went as low as 35% winrate in TvZ at the end of 2012.
Survivor61316
Profile Joined July 2012
United States470 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-10 03:51:40
January 10 2014 03:48 GMT
#59
On January 10 2014 11:39 iHirO wrote:
I'd be interested to know how the player skill was factored out.

Same here..those statistics are worthless without knowing how they arrived at them.

Edit: And wth does race strength even mean?? Isnt that just balance? So they are using balance to determine whether or not the game is balanced? I guess the definition of dictionary is "a dictionary" too then..
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Nebuchad
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
Switzerland12485 Posts
January 10 2014 03:50 GMT
#60
On January 10 2014 12:47 VasHeR wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 10 2014 12:44 Nebuchad wrote:
I love the fact that they stopped talking about protoss having an overall advantage and refocused on the advantage being in PvT. That was the thing that annoyed me the most in the last post. As to how the stats are calculated... It would probably matter if the stats were useful in themselves, which they are not.

lol wut? did you see the negative PvZ across all realms?


It appears you're attempting to bash me but I'm unsure how you think this works.
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