The Truth Behind Solo Queue?

[quote=Yukimaru]I dont take any credit for it, but while surving the Solomidforums, as i do every Monday, i came about a interesting Thread with Logical Mathexplanation inside: [url=http://www.solomid.net/forums/index.php?/topic/22191-the-truth-behind-soloq/]http://www.solomid.net/forums/index.php?/topic/22191-the-truth-behind-soloq/[/url] [quote] Posted this on official forums. Reposting here just to see the reactions. --- his is just for fun btw. Not trying to start a troll thread but.. I'm new to league and lets see if I have this figured out.. This is based on pure statistics, and not accounting for personal skill and champion counters/selection/carries (ie. OP champs tryn carry soloQ hard right?). Assuming you are of average skill level, and the player base consists of POOR -> AVERAGE -> PRO players. (Or 3 categories of skill level) There's 10 players on the map, 5 on each team, you are 1 of them. Your performance accounts for 1/10, or 10% of the game. 4/10 players on your team, or 40%, is chance 40 divided by 3 = 13.3 13.3% chance of poor teammates 13.3% chance of average teammates 13.3% chance of pro teammates 5/10 players on the enemy team, or 50%, is also chance 50 divided by 3 = 16.6 16.6% chance of poor opponents 16.6% chance of average opponents 16.6% chance of pro opponents Lets balance that out and say that: pro teammates = poor opponants poor teammates = pro opponants average = average 16.6 + 13.3 = 29.9 (lets round it to 30) 30% chance that you will win due to matchmaking 30% chance that you will lose due to matchmaking 30% chance that it will be even and will come down to coordination in specific plays And remember: 10% chance that you will affect the outcome yourself. TL;DR version? 60% chance 30% teamwork 10% individual skill So here come the hard questions in terms of soloQ: Is it a skill based game? No. Only 10% relies on your own skill Is it a teamwork based game? No, only 30% chance relies on teamwork Is matchmaking broken? 60% chance of a win/lose based on pure luck? SoloQ = Lottery? Lol, I guess it is a troll thread after all. But its true nonetheless. --- I think that riot's justification of the current matchmaking system is that even with a 60% win/lose variance, as you slowly climb elo due to generalization (which is another statistical term) the impact of the 60% variance will become lower and lower. This phenomena is called "regression to the mean" Basically the more games you play, the closer towards the "average" elo you get to purely based on the amount of people that play this game. At the point where you reach the "average" elo (Which for this game I think is around 1400) your individual skill begins to matter a lot more than teammates since all teammates you end up queuing with are also at an "average" elo. --- Im speaking objectively here. You're actions only account for 10% of the actions in an entire game. However, how you use your 10% differs from how other people use there. If you use your time making safe kills and taking objectives then obviously your worth more than someone who goes 0/10. However, if you go 10/0, that person who went 0/10 sufficiently negated any good you did in the entire game. See how that works? Yes you can carry a game hard and go 20/0, but if two of your teammates when 0/10 and everyone else broke even then even though you're fed and carrying you're work has already been undone. --- BUT statistics =/= real statistics is only "what will most likely happen probably if conditions are consistant" which they never are --- Ps. Actually a bunch of posts stringed together which brings it all together. This was just for fun mostly. Statistics isnt real after all, its just probability, and doesnt account for specific champions, situations, or players. [/quote][/quote]

[quote=lifebaka]Statistically, that's pretty much garbage. He's assumed a uniform distribution of players across skill levels, when a bell curve or a skewed right distribution are the most likely. Either there are a lot of people bunched up in the center, at "average", with very few people being either very bad or very good, or there are a lot of people bunched up on the left, at "poor", with fewer people playing "average" and very few being very good. Certainly there aren't that many people who are very good, or else there would be more people at stellar ELO. Since playing LoL is a skill, I'm going to assume that people begin in something that's roughly bell-shaped in terms of how good they are, but then can move to the right with practice, leaving us over time with a massively skewed right distribution. This single mistake sorta' tears apart his whole argument, since it invalidates all of his math. Seriously, all of it. Anyway, I have more objections, and will post them later, but I need to get ready to go to my classes for the day.[/quote]

[quote=Crazy Smurf]Ef this all. All you need to win is to have a lot of swag.[/quote]

[quote=Wayne3100]dem logics[/quote]

[quote=omagma][quote=Crazy Smurf] Ef this all. All you need to win is to have a lot of swag. [/quote] Damn straight boy![/quote]

[quote=Darcurse]Pretty much BS trying to put this in statistics. But Regarding your own ability and how much it actually changes the game, that's how it works.[/quote]

[quote=DuffTime]What a crock of shit. This is why the general forums are an abysmal wasteland.[/quote]

[quote=Beeswarm17]"Truth" my ass. It's like this guy has never played the game before in his life.[/quote]

[quote=Luther3000]100% chance that this guy is pulling meaningless statistics out of his ass.[/quote]

[quote=Wayne3100]If my team faces CLG EU, we can either win or lose. That means we have a 50% chance of winning, right? [img=http://honeywithclover.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/tumblr_l0jqt3ozfk1qaylc3o1_400.jpg][/quote]