Okay, so as some mentioned the proportion of smurfs quoted in the first post as difficult to interpret, I figured I would give more details about those in the future. So here are the stats about the smurfs I encountered over the two last weeks :
SMURFS REPORT - W18 & 19 2020
How to read :
- Confirmed smurfs are users who had multiple freeloses (2 or more) in their recent games history.
- Unconfirmed smurfs are users that seemed very suspicious to me (significantly higher leagues in the past, abnormally low total career games (for example making it to P1-D3 in 20 games), unusually high APM with matching skill) but who hadn’t multiple freeloses in their recent history. Hence, can’t say for sure if they are smurfs or not.
- MU smurfs : % of confirmed smurfs who freelosed only one match-up in their recent games history.
- Smurfs ratio : proportion of confirmed smurfs over total players (regular players + unconfirmed). This is a low estimate of the ratio of smurfs played at my MMR. This method probably underestimates the ratio of smurfs, as freeloses streaks made prior to recent games history, or non freelosing smurfs won’t be taken in account.
- +Unconfirmed : proportion of smurfs, confirmed + unconfirmed, over total players. This method probably overestimates the ratio of smurfs.
Users played twice in one day were only counted once.
TL;DR :
Over 90 users played :
- 15,56% of confirmed smurfs.
- 12.22 of suspicious users.
- 84,44% to 72.22% of regular players.
For trivia, special mention to one user who was simultaneously a confirmed smurf, a first seconds trashtalker AND a probable map-hacker. A 3 in 1 formula so to speak. 