OWL Hero Ban Algorithm

I’m sure I along with many are curious as to how the algorithm that has picked the hero bans this week is working. Any insight from OWL/Blizzard would be appreciated.
Also since they said that the algorithm is taking data from “High level competitive play” What to them is considered high level? Only GM? Does it also count masters? Does it go as low as Diamond? Again insight would be appreciated.

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Transparency or Papa Jeff explaining why they are fixated on this dumb thing called hero ban.

Oh dont get me wrong the hero ban was very much needed, and can improve the game tremendously.
I just want some more data about how it works

If it’s a system and not hand picked then it probably takes whatever was played the most in the previous week gets the hammer.

Well no they explained on stream that the algorithm picks a hero from a pool of the most played from the week, and that it didn’t just pick THE most played hero. I think they said it had to have like over 20% play time or more. I just wanted to know if it was just RNG or whatever