At first, Waifu’s team just looked like a PNW locals team. I expected it to be a typical Waifu team–just above average, and skating into playoffs off of Waifu’s own strength. However, they’ve done a lot better than I expected. I believe the sole reason is the over-performance of ahmad7133x34, who has been suspiciously strong. …
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Opinions and Impressions (Oppressions?) on Itachi vs. Simple
I like blogging, so sue me. Lots of unrelated thoughts, so I’ll use a listicle format to give a semblance of structure. 1. Not respecting Toth Marci is a mistake. He openly climbed ladder with Marci. You can’t block pick it, because your team isn’t good at it. I think banning Marci first phase is …
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A look at “value” vis-à-vis season standings
“Value” refers to the amount a captain paid for a player, compared to the “fair value” of the player. See here for more information: https://abox.car.blog/2022/05/09/crouching-tigers-hidden-dragons/ There are two main outliers. Tokyo did unexpectedly well, and 2centz did unexpectedly poorly. Tokyo’s dotabuff on the draft sheet is Divine 1 (https://www.dotabuff.com/players/54432298), but his dotabuff on the rd2l …
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Reflections
Why did I leave TheMantis team? There were two primary reasons. If people do not enjoy being with you, and you do not enjoy being with them, then why bother? Better to divorce, and they can find someone they like to be with. To stick it out would be a very simple thing for me. …
Husbando Tier List Pt. 2: The Naturists
5. Keeper of the Light Old man who probably can’t get it up. Might be fun for age play/diaper fetishists, but not here. 4. Nature’s Prophet Furion used to be a bad-ass. But these days the Nature’s Prophet feels too vanilla. I think he’s kind of a “girly man” now, and not in the good …
4 Toxic Traits
I saw a workplace article that I think can apply to Dota as well. Here are excerpts: 1. Announce your own success constantly “Have you noticed how the people who seem to toot their own horn have an image problem? And, it’s not a good look. They tend to reveal their insecurities: look at me, …
Crouching Tigers, Hidden Dragons
Warning: long, and covering multiple topics https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Jl2_-biDUWB2chWXTH5YeBw4_92V8YRcgsrz1NYxtjc/edit?usp=sharing “Value” is the difference of actual cost and expected cost. So it’s really the inverse of value, but I didn’t make the official spreadsheet. I think “value” is more useful to look at than “% value.” Remember that this value is directly derived from mmr. Percent difference in …
Value Town
Don’t let these players go cheaply! oof/AR – Professional hitman. 2 seasons ago, AR and Kende owned EST-Sun season 24. Having revealed themselves, they packed their bags and moved to PST-Sun, and played the same trick again. Don’t be befooled! This is a previously, and still, immortal-level player. And not one of those bad ones, …
Baby’s first auction draft
Subtitle: How I would approach the draft Disclaimer: This is untested, and I take no blame for anyone’s draft doing a snafu. Pre-draft: Start from the Greg’s wonderland tab in the draft sheet. (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18iHy_u9lnnF6Ap8p-zpVUypcr0Nka8muLCQ6Ye4bVWE/edit#gid=525877618) The “Expected Cost” column gives the “fair value” of each player. From there, make value adjustments in your own scout sheet: …
Auction Draft Theorycraft
A theory of monetary distribution and captain handicapping. I won’t go into specific drafting strategies. I’ve never participated in an auction draft before. This is all just theory. Maybe there will be some math/logical problems. Assumption/simplification #1: Every point of mmr is equal. For example, a 3000 + a 4000 is the same as a …
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