Why do you think games from different periods should receive different weight?
We live in reality, not in the past. Past 1-36 months may be reasonable to take into consideration, but how far do you want to look into the past? Early LotV? HotS, WoL? I am sorry to disappoint you, but such data will not support your point of view. Patches changes, balance changes at some point it’s no use looking behind. If any race was weak at any point in the history, it is not an argument to give it 60-70% win-ratio now.
I do have a very special place in my heart for MaNa vs ForGG from Katowice 2015, but I do not believe old matches are relevant to current balance (with an exception for what not to do).
Again, that is obviously false.
That’s my genuine opinion. I did not create it on empty words, but supported it by evidence and data. If you show that there is something more than “Protoss OP” behind your words, perhaps you will convince me. If it’s obviously false, feel free to enlighten me.
Protoss has a positive win-rate vs terran.
When you take probability into account, one of races must have positive win-rate.
Win-ratio is usually under 52% in favour for Protoss. So every 50 games as a Terran, you will win only 24, and Protoss shall win 26 out of pure balance. Would you notice that after playing 50 PvTs? I would not. That seem to be fair, personally I accept 5% difference, and even if win-ratio was 40% for Protoss in both match-ups, I would not stop playing the race. I see no problem in current state.
Protoss is dominating GML more than any other race has ever dominated GML, meaning their current imbalance is larger than any imbalance that has happened before.
That’s funny one. Where to start with?
Not Protoss, but top players. Not ever, but in Jule 2020, (funny how situation was back in 2011), not dominate, but win a few more games.
Meanings of dominate:
Being the largest (true), most important (false, all races), most noticable (false - Zerg), the best (possible, arguable, not by large margin, though), having control (false). (6)
If you want to use a word to describe Protoss appearance in GM league, the best world is “largest” group of players, not dominating, there are no reason to use such a strong word. (also it has emotional meaning, what means the word itself can, and often is, used for manipulation emotions).
Protoss has largest amount of players in GM, around 50% EU, that’s a fact.
Using this pure number as game balance indicative is a mistake.
Detailed explanation in chapter 2.1:
Additionally, they have won the most tournaments in 2020.
- Tournament wins are not indicative.
- Most means more than other races, so above 34%? Did you actually count that?
- Detailed explanation in chapter 2.2 of link above.
It is not a matter of opinion. Protoss is overpowered as a matter of fact.
Unless proven by a solid research, it’s a subjective opinion. Pretty often not supported by anything. From info I gathered, nobody attempted recently to properly prove the thesis. There is also no point in, unless you are a member of Activision balance team. They get paid for such research and you not. It is time consuming, and balance evolves quickly, so such stuff becomes obsolete very fast.
Also Aligulac is not exacly correct, however it is 2nd best balance-related source I have found so far.
Also patently false. By dividing into discrete periods, games are, by definition, not weighted the same. The math is very simple. If you have 1 game in a “period” and a 1000 games in another “period” then 1 game has 1000x the weight of games in the other period. It’s simply a form of cherry picking.
True, but that is not the case, what indicates you have not checked the source properly. And that is okay. We can be lazy, just be more careful in the future.
Every game should have the same amount of weight
Absolute nonse unless you put reasonable time limit. Put away WoL and HotS of the equation. Also games before November 2018 should not be taken fully into account, for big changes added to the game during that period. Old data is good for avoiding mistakes and comparision, but is not relevant to current balance.
“Today is cold, global warming is false.”
“I am just using the most recent data.”
Incorrectly, of course. If you analyse the data properly and show your thought process, your opinions will be taken seriously. Cherry picking is not the only error you can do while analysing data.
At this point I would suggest everyone (including me) to learn more about truth, false, opinions and process of making them. It is something most education systems around the globe do not include in teaching procees and many people are lacking such skills.
Too lazy to reference properly, so I will leave it just here like that:
6. htt ps://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/dominating