tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53241404518600197172024-09-01T03:15:01.513-07:00Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5324140451860019717.post-77550139496475735122011-05-29T18:09:00.000-07:002011-05-29T19:04:52.220-07:00For starters, We need data.<br /> <div><br /> </div><div>To do this i plan to scrape about 3-4 weeks of data from the solo ladder (&nbsp;<a href="http://www.leagueoflegends.com/ladders/solo-5x5">http://www.leagueoflegends.com/ladders/solo-5x5</a>) &nbsp;and store it in a database. This will allow me to conduct&nbsp;analysis&nbsp;to best determine what the problem is.</div><div><br /> </div><div>The scraper will be implemented in python storing data into a MySQL database.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5324140451860019717.post-72544112958603226922011-05-29T03:26:00.000-07:002011-05-29T03:26:48.579-07:00Hello and welcome all,<br /> <br /> Over the coming year or so i plan to be working with Riot Games to improve the ELO ranking system for the popular video game, League of Legends.<br /> I feel that the system is currently flawed. Your ELO is highly volatile and thus a bad indication of player skill. I plan to rework the calculation system to make you ELO much more stable and a better indicator of skill. Other factors like duo queuing also effect how well a game can be played.<br /> <br /> At the moment i only have ideas but i will slowly develop these into hopefully a paper to present to Riot highlighting the flaws in the current system and how the system i propose will fix this.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7