You’re not wrong idk why people fawn over these streamers or content creators like they are the second coming of jesus
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bad data leads to bad opinions
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Overwatch players have never heard of a sample size. No really, I’m begging y’all to look it up.
No, Overbuff it’s not going to be entirely accurate, but it very clearly follows that trends that Blizzard does report on. Most of the problem with it is people not understanding how to read pick rates in relation to win rates and don’t know that numbers need nuance, NOT the private profiles. That barely matters.
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bad data
according to random internet guy in which said data doesn’t endorse his biases.
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You mean like that time the genji mains cried that genji was weak, and then blizzard corrected them and said genji is middle of the pack? Oh wait, genji being weak wasn’t based on data, but on the say-so of genji mains.
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or like brigs been so bad but every not brig mains said shes good just not in this meta and the devs said she was fine
You do know overbuff give you a ballpark, but no where near is reliable, because of private profiles… So why care data is most likely wrong either way
Every not Brig main said she’s fine because they’ve been basing their opinions off content creators, and information from last season. Brig was underperforming this season, hence why she got buffed.
Unlike the genji mains, who based their opinions off nothing more than their own feelings. No data. No evidence. Just genji doesn’t feel strong.
Private profiles aren’t taken into account, but there’s a large enough sample size that the data is relatively accurate.
i hope you do know i just play genji i don’t main him my main is lucio second a lot use data number and clips showing what is wrong with him while their are those who use feeling every group of mains use feeling I’m sorry if a hero does feel bad to play that’s also a problem for a game like sym for example shes weak and feels bad but lets say they giga buff her but she still feels bad to play that’s still a problem and should be addressed
and on the buffs thing the devs als oare just human and just because something buffed or nerfed doesn’t mean it should have been nerfed or buffed look at what they did to mercy and then we have sojourn who was buffed while being the strongest hero in the game then we have heroes like rein who need help but because low ranks suck he cant be buffed the problem is you use data that cant be checked to push your feeling you wouldn’t use the data if it didn’t help your feelings that human nature people do it on accident all the time its why i personly just don’t like using data that i can not check in my line of work or in games it leads to problem that we cant forsee
A very cherry picked sample size.
All those “silly” ppl who goes to vote in elections… don’t they know sample size is all that is needed? /sarcasm
I’m not casting shade at you because you have a genji icon. It was just the most convenient example at the time.
I can see the “understanding stats fairy” hasn’t visited a lot of people on the forum.
it doesn’t take that big of a sample size to get within 1% of the actual results, and overbuff clears that by a massive amount.
When Blizzard gives actual results, they are always not too far from what overbuff has been reporting.
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Why keep buffing meta heroes then?
Also most ppl were shocked when Bliizard said rein is doing more than fine.
Blizzard is going to be buffing all the tanks, you know, to get player numbers up.
I mean, this is an example of overbuff being more useful than randoms on the forums and their feels right?
People on forums: Rein is garbage.
Overbuff: Rein is doing just fine.
Blizzard: Rein is doing just fine.
That is showing agreement between overbuffs stats and Blizzards comments. I don’t see how you could think that is anything apart from showing that overbuff is presenting stats close to Blizzard.
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Not talking just about the tanks.
Then what are you talking about?
Sombra’s stats were not good, so she was buffed.
Mei’s stats were not good, and so she was buffed as well.
Again, overbuff is a FAR more accurate indicator of what Blizzard will be doing than the people saying that “you should ignore overbuff it is garbage”
I’ll go with the data which has predictionary power.
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buffing cree 3 times when he was meta, buffing tracer and now even buffing ana
I remember that, his win rate was utter trash, and he was only meta because it was literally the only thing which could stand up to Tracer at the time.
Let me repeat, his win rate was utter trash… You would expect him to be buffed right?
Like again, the stats point to him being buffed, and he was.
And you are confused on why it happened, but no one using overbuff was confused.
Again, predictionary power, because it matches closely to what Blizzard is seeing.
If you keep getting example after example of the forums being confused about why Blizzard is doing things, where it is obvious when you look at the overbuff stats, that implies that overbuff is a lot more accurate than the forums “this is what it feels like it is like” - and it is a lot closer to what Blizzard is seeing as data than “what the forums feels like is happening”
That is why people use overbuff, because it gives them a more accurate view of what is going on than people moaning that “Sombra is overpowered” - when her win rate is on overbuff garbage, and shock horror, Blizzard ends up buffing her to the shock of people who ignore the stats.
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Everyone and their mom was saying that he is OP at the time (most likely judging based on overbuff too because ofc it is) and then blizzard comes with a buff for him 3 times in a row (also if i remember correctly it was blizzard who stated that his winrates are bad)
And Blizzard was buffing him, because the stats on overbuff matched what they were seeing.
That is showing overbuff tracks closer to what the devs see in their stats than the forums “feels”.
This shows that overbuff is BETTER at predicting the actual data, than the forums are. Yes people were complaining that he was OP. Blizzard with their stats saw a VERY different story, which… was the same thing overbuff was showing.
Again, overbuff tracks stats WAY better than the forum does.