[UHF]

I was going to try and include every country in the region, but the amount of time I'd need to sink into doing that would be ridiculous (it could be done though!). The ANZ group was the simplest to put together.

This table is about as unbiased as I could be. I simply got the results, weighed the events, and output the numbers. The only way it's skewed, is if my event weights are off (which I don't think they are, or not much by much) - or if I've missed events (which is possible, but there is only so much time I can put into trawling for events).

The one thing I have seen though is a big shift in the mid-tier, simply from the movement of players (retiring, going inactive, new players coming in). Also the lower tier, of where breakouts look like they might occur, but then fizzle out. It's fairly interesting to look at, and I might look at expanding it for 2013.

[breadfan]

Originally Posted by UHF

I was going to try and include every country in the region, but the amount of time I'd need to sink into doing that would be ridiculous (it could be done though!). The ANZ group was the simplest to put together.

This table is about as unbiased as I could be. I simply got the results, weighed the events, and output the numbers. The only way it's skewed, is if my event weights are off (which I don't think they are, or not much by much) - or if I've missed events (which is possible, but there is only so much time I can put into trawling for events).

The one thing I have seen though is a big shift in the mid-tier, simply from the movement of players (retiring, going inactive, new players coming in). Also the lower tier, of where breakouts look like they might occur, but then fizzle out. It's fairly interesting to look at, and I might look at expanding it for 2013.

How did you weight the events? I don't think it's possible to do initially, there has to be some arbitrary assignment surely?

[UHF]

Originally Posted by breadfan

How did you weight the events? I don't think it's possible to do initially, there has to be some arbitrary assignment surely?

Yes the initial weight for the 1st event was, but there really is no other way to do it. I picked 3 events (ACL regional, ACL regional final, ACL online) and got standardized weights for each of them. That gave me something to work on for other events bigger or smaller. After this, I had a look at prize pools, participation numbers, the actual player pool in some cases, invite vs open bracket, etc to find an appropriate weight class. Weighing events against each other is fairly tricky, as each has equal opportunity - which I also think is important.

FYI - the events i used were basically between WCS Oceania and Masters Cup level.

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breadfan:

Ah I see, makes sense