Why is the League of Legends meta so stale?
What causes professional League of Legends to repeat the same few Champion day-after-day, season-after-season?
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The basis of AI and how it can be applied to esports and gaming.
Read ArticleLoL: How to win your Solo Queue Draft - a statistical analysis of 1M+ games
Games are both won and lost in Champ Select, here’s a statistical overview of the biggest contributors to that result.
Read ArticleLoL: Introducing the iTero Drafting Coach, in partnership with Overwolf
A drafting app built for esports, now available to everyone.
Read ArticleLoL: Evaluating Teams with Betting Odds
The benefits and drawbacks of using betting odds to evaluate the win chances of teams
Read ArticleLoL: How to Win Draft in Pro Play
The key factors behind a winning Draft in League of Legends.
Read ArticleAn Introduction to the Riot API
An introductory guide on how to get League of Legends data from the Riot API, using Python.
Read ArticleLoL: The impact of lane counters
How do we evaluate counters and the impact they have on the results in professional play?
Read ArticleLoL: The Best Opportunities for AI in Esports
What are the opportunities for organisations to use the latest in machine learning to supercharge their performance?
Read ArticleLoL: Pro AI Predicted Champion Tier List - Patch 12.11 Results
How the actual results of 12.11 stacked up against our AI’s predictions.
Read ArticleLoL: Do Player Comforts Matter, Really?
Does picking Champions that Players have more stage games on result in winning more games?
Read ArticleLoL: Durability Changes in Pro Play — An Early Statistical Review
How Patch 12.10 is shaking out in professional play
Read ArticleLoL: The Champion Tier List Challenge
Predicting the relative strength of Champions in professional play every patch, all season long.
Read ArticleLoL: Can Solo Queue data be used for Professional play
A discussion of whether data from “regular” ranked games can be used to inform decisions in the highest level of professional play.
Read ArticleLoL: How Much Does Side Selection Matter, Really?
A statistical analysis of the Blue/Red side debate, in respect to the T1 vs. RNG Series for the 2022 MSI Finals
Read ArticleLoL: “Snowballatility” and why it matters in esports
How we can calculate “The Gold Multiplier” metric, evaluate Champions and use it to our advantage.
Read ArticleLoL: How Gold Statistics can be used, and misused — An Evaluation of LEC Top Laners (Spring 2022)
The many ways to spin the “Gold” statistics, and what picture it paints of the LEC top laners
Read ArticleLoL: Why Performance doesn’t equal Viewers in Esports
The better the team performs, the more viewers they should have — why this rule doesn’t always hold and why it matters.
Read ArticleLoL: Player Scouting and Statistics
The flaws and remedies of using statistics to scout new players
Read ArticleLoL: Draft of the Week - Rogue vs. Excel Esports
A review of the statistically best draft from the previous week
Read ArticleThe Power of AI in Esports
How Artificial Intelligence can be applied to esports, providing real value to players & coaches
Read ArticleLoL: Draft of the Week — Team Vitality vs. SK Gaming
A review of the statistically best draft from the previous week
Read ArticleLoL: Draft of the Week — Team BDS vs. Team Vitality
A review of the statistically best draft from the previous week
Read ArticleLoL: Content-Based Champion Recommendations with Dimensionality Reduction
What is it, how does it work & why does it matter?
Read ArticleLoL: Using "Personality Quizzes" & Nearest Neighbors for Recommendations
A beginner-friendly walkthrough of N-dimensional spaces, Nearest Neighbors, Euclidean Distances and more
Read ArticleLoL: UMAP and K-Means to Classify Characters — and why it’s useful
Using Dimensionality Reduction and Clustering Algorithms to segment League of Legends “Champions” into Classes.
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