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Proleague: Most Balanced/Broken Maps of All Time

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Love.Zelduck
Profile Joined February 2008
United States170 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-18 05:53:51
January 05 2009 09:46 GMT
#1
UPDATED! (See rationalization for more info)

Proleague's Most Balanced Maps of All Time

1. Sin Peaks of Baekdu
2. Python
3. Tau Cross
4. Blue Storm
5. Andromeda

Rationalization
+ Show Spoiler +

Forget the old methods. If a map has a %pop. imba. of 17% or greater (away from 33%), it's imba. Python just makes the cut, Katrina SE just misses it. If a map has a %MU imba of 20% or greater (away from 50%), it's imba. Maps are ordered by their worst matchup.


Numbers
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Map - Worst pop. imba. / worst record imba.
T: %T's sent out
Z: %Z's sent out
P: %P's sent out

Tau Cross - 4 10
T: 32
Z: 37
P: 30

Destination - 3 20.3
T: 31
Z: 33
P: 36

Sin Peaks of Baekdu - 8 9.6
T: 31
Z: 41
P: 28

Blue Storm - 9 12.5
T: 27
Z: 42
P: 31

Arcadia 2 - 17 6.7
T: 31
Z: 50
P: 19

Medusa - 6 21.1
T: 27
Z: 37
P: 36

Python - 16 9.6
T: 49
Z: 25
P: 26

815 III - 7 22
T: 35
Z: 38
P: 26

Andromeda - 11 14.9
T: 28
Z: 44
P: 28

Sin Chupung-Ryeong - 10 20
T: 38
Z: 39
P: 23

Katrina SE - 17 12.5
T: 16
Z: 34
P: 50

Colosseum II - 15 20
T: 24
Z: 28
P: 48

Nemesis - 20 18.4
T: 23
Z: 23
P: 53

Chupung-Ryeong - 25 15.5
T: 53
Z: 8
P: 39

Neo Harmony - 18 22.7
T: 51
Z: 26
P: 22

Baekmagoji - 15 28.6
T: 34
Z: 19
P: 48

Monty Hall - 23 18.7
T: 35
Z: 10
P: 55

Monty Hall SE - 26 16.7
T: 59
Z: 16
P: 26

Neo Requiem - 20 22.3
T: 13
Z: 35
P: 53

Othello - 39 13
T: 72
Z: 15
P: 13

Katrina - 22 23.5
T: 14
Z: 31
P: 55

Colosseum - 30 25
T: 49
Z: 3
P: 49

Rush Hour 3 - 34 24.1
T: 67
Z: 28
P: 6

Raid Assault 2 - 45 21.4
T: 22
Z: 78
P: 0

Un'Goro Crater - 25 50
T: 40
Z: 52
P: 8

Harmony - 38 50
T: 71
Z: 19
P: 10

Wuthering Heights - 42 50
T: 75
Z: 3
P: 21

Geometry - 43 50
T: 76
Z: 15
P: 9
Plexa
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Aotearoa39261 Posts
January 05 2009 09:48 GMT
#2
Um thanks for an arbitrary list of maps in some order without any justification or rationalization behind the creation of the list

Care to elaborate?
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Patrio
Profile Joined September 2007
Norway706 Posts
January 05 2009 09:49 GMT
#3
Medusa most balanced map of all time?????

I thought Harmony and Othello was better balanced than Medusa
Zerg Bunker
Scaramanga
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Australia8091 Posts
January 05 2009 09:49 GMT
#4
On January 05 2009 18:48 Plexa wrote:
Um thanks for an arbitrary list of maps in some order without any justification or rationalization behind the creation of the list

Care to elaborate?

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Shikyo
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Finland33997 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-05 09:53:43
January 05 2009 09:53 GMT
#5
The "Proleague's Most Balanced Maps of All Time" and "Proleague's Most Broken Maps of All Time" could be switched and it would be almost just as accurate.


I assume you play Protoss?
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Love.Zelduck
Profile Joined February 2008
United States170 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-05 09:54:32
January 05 2009 09:53 GMT
#6
elaboration added, so yknow, it's moar clear that its just numbers based (whether or not the numbers ought to mean that is another story.)
BanZu
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States3329 Posts
January 05 2009 09:53 GMT
#7
On January 05 2009 18:53 Shikyo wrote:
The "Proleague's Most Balanced Maps of All Time" and "Proleague's Most Broken Maps of All Time" could be switched and it would be almost just as accurate.


I assume you play Protoss?

That's exactly what I was thinking, wtf?
Sun Tzu once said, "Defiler becomes useless at the presences of a vessel."
whatusername
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Canada1181 Posts
January 05 2009 09:54 GMT
#8
ummmmmmmmmmm idgi most of the so-called "balanced" maps on that list arent the well balanced at all???
im gay
PH
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States6173 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-05 09:57:09
January 05 2009 09:55 GMT
#9
I hiiiighly doubt that Othello is that imbalanced. I also highly doubt that Medusa is that balanced.

Elaborate on your elaboration...let's see numbers and the stats you used.

EDIT
I read your edit of your elaboration...if that's the case, then the actual games played on the map don't figure into your analysis, and that you're basing this whole thing off of who got sent against who on what map?

-____-;;
Hello
Love.Zelduck
Profile Joined February 2008
United States170 Posts
January 05 2009 09:59 GMT
#10
On January 05 2009 18:55 PH wrote:
-____-;;

lol cammon its not that bad an idea
Shikyo
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Finland33997 Posts
January 05 2009 10:02 GMT
#11
Medusa

Race Stats (non-mirrors):
TvZ: 12-16 (42.9%) [ Games ]
ZvP: 15-20 (42.9%) [ Games ]
PvT: 21-10 (67.7%) [ Games ]

Mirrors: 15 TvT | 11 ZvZ | 24 PvP

Sounds balanced.

Also, one thing you didn't take into account is the fact that in 08-09 Proleague, you can't just send out the best race on their best map because every team must send out at least one player of each race. But whatevers.
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[DUF]MethodMan
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
Germany1716 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-05 10:14:45
January 05 2009 10:11 GMT
#12
thread title is misleading but the figures are interesting especially
Raid Assault 2 - 45
T: 22
Z: 78
P: 0

imagine no protoss at all was ever sent out to that map. poor tosses who had to play it in individual leagues :D
Love.Zelduck
Profile Joined February 2008
United States170 Posts
January 05 2009 10:17 GMT
#13
On January 05 2009 19:11 [DUF]MethodMan wrote:
thread title is misleading but the figures are interesting especially
Raid Assault 2 - 45
T: 22
Z: 78
P: 0

imagine no protoss at all was ever sent out to that map. poor tosses who had to play it in individual leagues :D

What's more funny is that they realize the imbalance with RA2, and then replace it with RH3...
Hahaha
Zoler
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Sweden6339 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-05 10:24:33
January 05 2009 10:23 GMT
#14
You cannot base the imbalance percentage only on that!!

It's mindgames! The coaches thinks which player the opposing teams will send and they will send players to counter them etc etc....

It's also that a team may not have very good players of that certain race.

its not that easy.
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Lamentations
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Australia211 Posts
January 05 2009 10:26 GMT
#15
Tau Cross, Medusa, BlueStorm all very good. Not sure about Destination, haven't made up my mind on that.
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Hot_Bid
Profile Blog Joined October 2003
Braavos36389 Posts
January 05 2009 10:27 GMT
#16
Plexa said it best.
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Love.Zelduck
Profile Joined February 2008
United States170 Posts
January 05 2009 10:29 GMT
#17
On January 05 2009 19:27 Hot_Bid wrote:
Plexa said it best.

He said it before I included rationalizations/numbers?
At the time, ya I'm glad he said it lol.
baubo
Profile Joined September 2008
China3370 Posts
January 05 2009 10:34 GMT
#18
On January 05 2009 18:55 PH wrote:
I hiiiighly doubt that Othello is that imbalanced. I also highly doubt that Medusa is that balanced.

Elaborate on your elaboration...let's see numbers and the stats you used.

EDIT
I read your edit of your elaboration...if that's the case, then the actual games played on the map don't figure into your analysis, and that you're basing this whole thing off of who got sent against who on what map?

-____-;;


If you take into account records, then we're talking about player imbalance, not map imbalance. Put players like Best or Stork on terran favored maps and they can still rape. That doesn't make the map PvT imba.

I don't see what's wrong with analyzing things this way. If a map, for example, 60% PvT, yet coaches send out terrans most of the time, it doesn't make the fact PvT imba. It just means that coaches will only dare putting the best PvTers on the map as snipers.
Meh
Shikyo
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Finland33997 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-05 12:00:04
January 05 2009 11:59 GMT
#19
On January 05 2009 19:34 baubo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 05 2009 18:55 PH wrote:
I hiiiighly doubt that Othello is that imbalanced. I also highly doubt that Medusa is that balanced.

Elaborate on your elaboration...let's see numbers and the stats you used.

EDIT
I read your edit of your elaboration...if that's the case, then the actual games played on the map don't figure into your analysis, and that you're basing this whole thing off of who got sent against who on what map?

-____-;;


If you take into account records, then we're talking about player imbalance, not map imbalance. Put players like Best or Stork on terran favored maps and they can still rape. That doesn't make the map PvT imba.

I don't see what's wrong with analyzing things this way. If a map, for example, 60% PvT, yet coaches send out terrans most of the time, it doesn't make the fact PvT imba. It just means that coaches will only dare putting the best PvTers on the map as snipers.

Or maybe the team just happens to have good terrans and lacks Protoss? KTF?
League of Legends EU West, Platinum III | Yousei Teikoku is the best thing that has ever happened to music.
GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51509 Posts
January 05 2009 12:53 GMT
#20
lol at othello and rh3 regarded as imbalanced
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