As we all know we mostly use pickrate by player, which has a maximum of 16.67%. To determine pickrate by team, do you multiply the pickrate by player by 6?
For example, Ana has 10% pickrate (by player) currently. To determine that per team, would you multiply that by 6 so she has a 60% pickrate per team? Pickrate by match is how often a hero would appear in a match.
And my other question is, how do you determine pickrate by match? Multiply pickrate by team by 2, since there’s two teams?
Sorry for the weird questions, but I’m trying to figure out how pickrates work.
Im confused, but curious. Can you explain it out a bit more not sure where your getting these numbers from.
I’m 99% sure it’s “Yes” to all of those.
Pickrates generally work that way in a lot of trackers. For example overbuff.
So for example, pickrates on Overbuff usually range from 1-10%. Pickrates on other sites, ususally for Overwatch League, can go all the way up to 100%. Just trying to figure out why some pickrates are very high, and why some on other sites are very low.
But to calculate pick rate by match, that means you multiply Pickrate per team by 2. If you multiply 60% by 2, that would be 120%. So how would 120% pickrate work per match?
Ah jeez you got me, I always go by own eyes, patch notes, and character stats. Pickrates are a problem argument to “this many people use this, so this is a thing” really drives me nuts cause it’s usually a crutch to ignore other data. I’d say just follow win rates. Picking a hero means nothing on paper cause people could just like that hero for example R3ap3r who’s a top 500 just only playing reaper, has less then on hour on his other picks but 200+ hours on him. What matters though is his win rate. As long as its over 50% it doesnt matter who he’s playing as long as he’s winning.
I really dont feel like I’m helping here lol but wouldnt hurt to learn more about as many stats as you can.
A hero has a 16.67% pickrate per player.
Multiply that by 6, and that turns into a 100% pickrate per team.
Multiply that by 2, and that turns into a 200% pickrate per match (since you can obviously have 2 of the same hero in a match if both teams take them.)
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So if Ana has a 60% pickrate per team, that would be 120% per match.
So would that mean there’s a 100% chance of her being on one team, but a 20% chance of her being on the other?
No, a 120% pickrate per match means that the average match contains 1.2 Anas.
Say I play 5 matches:
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Match 1: Team 1 has Ana, Team 2 does not.
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Match 2: Team 1 has no Ana, Team 2 does.
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Match 3: Team 1 has no Ana, Team 2 does.
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Match 4: Team 1 has Ana, Team 2 does not.
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Match 5: Both teams have Ana on them.
Across those 5 matches there was an average of 1.2 Anas per game.
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