Thursday, December 11, 2014

League of Legends Contribution Metric

I've played this game called League of Legends for a while now, and one thing that I've always been interested in is a measure of your contribution.  Of course there are a wide variety of factors that are nearly impossible to account for in a numerical model (other than your MMR after a large number of games).  However, I feel like we can obtain a fairly accurate model of your performance, given just your KDA score and the team's total KDA score.

Note that this is NOT a simple calculation of your KDA = (K + A) / D.  Additionally, this metric is NOT a perfectly accurate measure of your performance, but rather what I believe to be a fairly accurate estimate of your performance.

It's a very simple method, and the simplicity makes it relatively champion-agnostic and role-agnostic, which is to say, the metric is pretty consistent regardless of the champion/role you play.

You can use my web app to compute your own:
https://lol-metrics.herokuapp.com

Here are instructions on how to use it:
http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/2ouqex/how_much_do_you_contribute_to_your_team/

Here is a more detailed post about what it does:
http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/2oofd4/a_good_metric_for_measuring_ingame_performance/

Here are some results from my initial trial run:
http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/2otq9v/are_you_being_held_back_by_your_teammates_find/

Give it a shot and let me know what you think!