Sanctuary - Statistics, Replays & Casters

RTS-Sanctuary is pleased to announce that our StarCraft Statistics service has been launched!

As everyone knows Blizzard quarantines our view of league statistics so that you can only see yourself against the 100 people in your Division. In phase 2 of the beta two sites made a start on providing an integrated view of stats across all the Divisions. Neither of these sites have updated their data yet so I have decided to launch my own Sanctuary StarCraft Statistics service. You can find the page by going to SC Stats here.

At the moment there is a simple searchable ladder that covers all divisions of the European, North American and South-East Asian Servers. You can refine your search by player name, server, league and race and results can be ordered by overall ranking, name. win ratio ot total games played.

There are only a couple of thousand names in the database so far as Blizzard made it harder to do automatic searches of the player information by including the player name in your statistics url. You will find an entry form on the statistics page that will allow you to add your details to the database (or anyone else's if you know them). Once added you will be automatically tracked as your rating changes and/or you move through the divisions.

So help us populate the database and go put your player url into the database!! You don't need to be logged into the site to view the dataor add your details so come on over and get your data registered.

Keeping the friendly competition going between the 3 of us who are working on stats sites atm, I've just put version two of the Sanctuary StarCraft Statistics live onto the site. There are a bunch of changes including :
- separate sections for ladder, player and division stats viewing and searching
- additional options for filtering ladder searches such as specifying minimum or maximum thresholds for points, games played and win ratio


- links from ladder listings to summary player profiles
- player profiles include details of all replays fetauring that player that have been posted to the site's replay system and links to information about the the division the player is in



- listings of divisions by realm and league sortable by a range of player statistics calculated on your choice of the top ranked player, all players, the top 10 or the top 25 players in the division



- summary statistics view with player listings for each division



The best way to see the new features is to try it out.

In terms of player coverage the player counts that are displayed are only for players with a 1v1 profile. I am going through a process of vetting all links to new profiles that are gathered from url harvesting and have a backlong that seems to be sitting at around 120K players no matter how many I get through at the moment

Although I have the data I still haven't put direct links to battle.net profiles or character codes in the information displayed on the site. I'm interested in understanding whether people want to be able to be identified easily in game through sites like this before I put that data available. You an add character codes in when searching for someone but the character code isn't shown when you view a player's profile.

I've made another addition to the StarCraft Statistics Analysis options - Population Profiles. When you select this option you can choose a region (or all regions) and a league to analyse. Once the analysis is complete you will be presented with 3 charts:
- Race Profile: A breakdown of the races used by players at different point levels within the league.
- Population Profile: A breakdown of the number of players at different point levels within the league
- Cumulative Population Profile: The cumulative proportion of the population at or above the different point levels within the league.

Point bands are currently set at 50 point intervals within the league.

Examples of the charts are shown below:

Race Profile


Population Profile


Cumulative Population Profile

I've noticed that the people that visit TeamLiquid often like to do so without having to worry about registering or logging in to the site. Soon after I started visiting here I changed the access policies on RTS-Sanctuary to allow guest to access all areas of the site with the exception of posting in the forums or posting replays.

Over the last month or so I've seen that there is quite a demand for somewhere reasonable to be able to upload replays without the hassle of logging in. We've heard the message at RTS-Sanctuary and from today I have modified our replay system to allow you to upload replays in our General Replays forum without logging in.

When you upload a replay at the site it is automatically created as a topic in the General Replays forum.




All the details are extracted from the file automatically and you just need to check the winner has been determined correctly and add any comment you'd like to go with the replay post. You'll also be asked to enter a name to associate with the post. The game will be displayed in a neat format and there will be a link from the name of each player to be able to view their 1v1 statistics as well as the league they were in and their points at the time the replay was posted.

In the post you will see detail of the link you can use to direct others to your game. We've set up a system that gets around the cumbersome url structure of the forums and your link will be something simple like http://rts-sanctuary.com/replay.php?186687 (which btw is a game of one of our posters against SelecT who was a top Dawn of War player).

After you've posted your game it will be accessible in the forum for people to discuss and it will also appear in the Replay Database




This gives you access to all SC2 replays posted on the site and can be searched by on a range of conditions including player name, race, map, number of players, game mode, patch version, and league.

We aren't changing things to allow guests to make posts in the forums as that would be a moderation nightmare so you'll still need to register if you want to take part in forum discussions (as you have to here as well) but at least you will have somewhere convenient to post your replays and they will be easier to discuss than if they rae tucked away on a file share somewhere.

To post a game just go to the General Replays Forum and click the New replay button. It is a simple and painless process.

Hope you enjoy

Just wanted to put a call out to StarCraft II casters/commentators who might be interested in adding their details to the Caster Database at RTS-Sanctuary.com. The database is for people with live casts and/or video libraries and you can read about it in the thread at http://rts-sanctuary.com/index.php?portal=SC2&showtopic=184562.

I know there have been a couple of different caster tracking systems posted about recently but most of those have tended to be stand-alone sites rather than being integrated with other community features like forums and replay posting (of course TL has the most comprehensive collection of casters and I'm not trying to compete with that .. I'd just like to have some information together for people when they are on the site). The system lets users add their own details directly into the database, creates a topic with an embedded viewer for their stream and/or VOD library, adds all their VODs into the library and monitors online status. Search functionality for the VOD library will be added soon.

So far I have set up the details for:
/v/craft
ArtosisTV
AskJoshy
bballguard
Big TV
BlizShouter
Brandon TV
Day9TV
DiggitySC
DrewN3O
Forsti
GLHF.it
GLHF.tv
Goatrope
Good2Game
Gretorp
Guilloteen
Hateplow
HDHomerJ
HDStarcraft
HuK
HuskyStarcraft
iCCup.TV
LS Gamers/NostalgiaTag
MakhStarcraft
N3O Gaming
Nevake
OMFG - eSports LIVE!
PainUser
Pigzy-F5
Polygon revue TV
PsyStarcraft
PullSC
SchickySC
SCLegacy
sc2noobschool
Shoutcraft
Shigarex
SirazTV
SpookyCaster
Starcraft: Legacy
Starcraft Pulse
TechnoBoyForce
The Elitists
TheSCChronicles
TL_Grobyc
TrumpSC
vegasraab
Vincere
Wolfcast
(list edited to reflect additions since posting)

If I've already set your stream up and you want to be able to edit the details you can register an account on the site and drop me a PM and I will transfer ownesrhip of the topic to you. If you want to add your own (or a favourite) stream just create an account and enter it into the database.