The Spending Quotient isn't as important for Zergs though? Zergs can mass larvae without spending the money - like when you save 1000 mins 1000 gas to instantly spawn 10 mutalisks as the spire finishes.

Azzur

Australia6250 Posts

September 16 2011 16:32 GMT

#27

Wow, great read!

The results of course are not surprising, but it's very good to see it laid out and shown!

For me personally, I feel like I can macro like a pro up to 70-80 supply and then I fall behind.

E.H Eager

United States227 Posts

September 16 2011 16:33 GMT

#28

Awesome read. Shows a lot of insight into the different leagues. Sorry that it probably took you like five days to write this up

Otolia

France5805 Posts

September 16 2011 16:33 GMT

#29

Holy Guacamole that was well done.

May I ask what programm you used for your plots ?

SFX

United States89 Posts

September 16 2011 16:33 GMT

#30

I do love hard equations and rational thinking.

Smurphy

United States374 Posts

September 16 2011 16:34 GMT

#31

I help a lot of newer and lower league players with basic mechanics. I always tell them to check the economic info score page after each game. I want them to work on having a lower unspent resources and a higher income than their opponent. Most don't understand what I keep telling them to focus on this aspect.

Now I can show them this thread and explain "it is macro!"

smf

Norway19 Posts

September 16 2011 16:34 GMT

#32

Awesome 500th, thanks a lot for sharing. Now I need to play some games so I can compare my SQ with idras.

Whitewing

United States7483 Posts

September 16 2011 16:35 GMT

#33

Someone has been busy :D

Interesting analysis, and more or less confirms what I expected.

Ihsahn

Chile132 Posts

September 16 2011 16:35 GMT

#34

Incredible Post!!! It would be very nice to see how GSL players score in this SQ scale.
Keep up the good work!

CluEleSs_UK

United Kingdom583 Posts

September 16 2011 16:37 GMT

#35

Cool post! I think this really attests to the age-old advice "spend your money!" and "constantly build workers" we give to newer players! Any time I'm teaching a new guy, they're always trying to follow a precise build perfectly, and they never understand when I say "it doesn't matter if you can only support x number of production facilities on 2 bases, spend your money!"

netherDrake

Singapore1831 Posts

September 16 2011 16:37 GMT

#36

Great post. This needs to be featured. will try to calculate my spending quotient too

Agh

United States891 Posts

September 16 2011 16:37 GMT

#37

while I know it was done for fun, your dats is not as useful as it could be. Your conclusions need to be separated for each race. P and Z average unspent will be much higher than T.

ch4ppi

Germany802 Posts

September 16 2011 16:37 GMT

#38

So Master macros better than Bronze? Interesting....

No, no I' kidding. Great work really good write up!

TuElite

Canada2123 Posts

September 16 2011 16:37 GMT

#39

Sick thread, very interesting, good job.

amazingxkcd

GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts

September 16 2011 16:37 GMT

#40

Heres my question. Is the players that you selected for the leagues below GM been set in that league for a long time or just happens to be in that league when you took the sampling, because u have possibilities for some players who just got demoted in your sample and would skew the data to a certain point.