If you think you're in elo hell. Go study your stats on overbuff

[VenusArmani-1354]

On Mercy and data

This post was conceived as a companion piece for evaluating my previous post (A month of Mercy nerf in numbers). Other than that, it’s not really going to be about Mercy (though I use her to work out examples). It’s about everyone’s other favorite subject - math. More specifically, I want to address the question: how much trust should we place in Overbuff statistics? I’ve seen a lot of people claim that Overbuff’s numbers are meaningless due to private profiles (or due to the fact that even bef…

The privatization of stats had almost no impact on the quality of Overbuff’s data. Probably because it was opt-in anyway.

It affected stuff like rankings but not so much the averages.