Dotabuff to Sponsor Professional Dota Team!

At Dotabuff we have received many inquiries to sponsor a professional Dota team, and we have always declined. Today, our decision has changed. Behind the scenes our developers have painstakingly worked on an evidence-based, sabermetric model to discover who are the best Dota players.

Sabermetrics started in baseball as an objective way to answer questions like "Who is the better offensive player?" Do we have the evidence to say that Dendi may be better than Arteezy (and it's not LAN wins)? At Dotabuff we have developed a propriety algorithm to suss out the best players in the Dota community. We are calling our new rating DBPR, or Dotabuff Pro Rating. Today, we are happy to announce that we are ready to sponsor the first professional team comprised of Dota's top pub players.

Team Dotabuff

Everyone has the potential to become a professional player. We hope that our new statistics may set a precedent by showcasing hidden talent among the Dota pub playing community.

Through our algorithm we have assembled a professional team containing the top pub players with unique characteristics. We currently consider our roster private, pending Visa issues, but here are some statistics that guided our recruitment:

Creep Score Stolen (CSS): CSS is the measure of a teammate to steal another teammate's creep kills. This situation is also known as the Devil's Trilane, where a carry has to out compete his support and the enemy offlaner for last hits. We use this metric to rate winning support players. Higher scores represent supports with enough determination to frustrate their carries into the jungle.

Hero Diversity (HD): A smaller number represents players who specialize in few heroes. These players know every nuance and intricacy. For example, the following player was in the running to be our Wisp specialist.

Wisp

With a 93% win rate on a hero that averages 39% win rate among pub players, he was strongly considered for one of the support players on team DB. Though the team may have had communication issues because he doesn't speak English, we felt it was fitting as Wisp itself can't speak at all. However, in the end, we were not able to successfully lobby IceFrog to remove the Ban phase from Captain's Mode.

Time Elapsed Before Picking (TEBP): In All Pick mode, we have found that players who pick late are often more cerebral, maximizing their time to calculate hero matchups and counters before choosing the one hero (Pudge) that will upend their opponent's synergies. An important stat for team captains.

Percentage of Nyx Impale Stuns (PNIS): A player's success with this skill shot, meaning a greater PNIS, is a determining factor in wins. However, nyx we are reluctant nyx to weigh this heavily, due tnyxo a fewnyx of Nyx's nyx faultsnyxnYxNyx.

Battlefury Bounty Hunters (BBH): Though Battlefury is often deemed a poor item on Bounty Hunter, we've found a winning pattern among a small percentage of players who buy Battlefury on BH. These players also tend to be early Rapier buyers, which has a 100% win rate in games they don't throw.

Wards Purchased (WP) The number of wards purchased in the game. Players who don't buy wards depend on high acute map awareness and game sense. We weigh this statistic heavily when recruiting our support players.

High Ground CS (HGCS): The number of creep kills from high ground, specifically from impassable terrain. This is a tactic used mostly by Nature Prophet players who cliff jungle. We find that these players exhibit resourcefulness: farming all lanes at the expense of teammates, using terrain to win versus the jungle, and ignoring calls for ganks to summon two more treants at the fountain.

Frequency of Phantom Lancer Picks (F.PL): Players who pick Phantom Lancer are generally humans of lesser character, we have found through our analysis. We consider this a "soft" statistic.

The Path to TI4

DBPT Winning TI4

With this in mind, our staff is very excited about TI4, where we expect our team to promptly receive an invite upon this announcement. Our projections show that team DB has close to a 95% chance of winning TI4, provided that Valve creates a low priority division for the tournament.

DBPR For Everyone

Math

We have painstakingly run our new skill algorithm on every player and are happy to share the results with you. As a way to give back to the community we have decided to add the DBPR (Dotabuff Pro Rating) statistic to every player profile:

DBPR

DBPR ranges from -3000 up to 7000 and very accurately measures viability for the Dotabuff Professional Team. We expect DBPR will be the standard for measuring selfish pub play for years to come. We're also releasing the algorithm for DBPR to the public for close examination. Check out the source on Github.

222 коментара
MM

    Love it :D

    Dreams

      This is it!

      Mr.Hankey

        I have -3673 when the scale starts at -3000 ? Did I already breake the system with my awesomeness :) ?

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        Victor Wembenyama - Ede

          April is near :D

          30_CM_V_KLUDE

            Is this April Fools? :D

            SJCJ

              This is amazing haha

              Nope

                Pretty awesome :D
                Guys don't forget to look a look at my L33T MMR. Also I found a guy with 8180 MMR, is it that new accounts do not have an accurate rating?

                I don't get a few of your ratings tho, PL picks and BH BF's?

                Franz Stigler

                  rofl hahah

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                  Dreams

                    Another fail attempt..

                    Nope

                      Lod[A] pls: -3673

                      Thovex

                        DBPR ranges from -3000 up to 7000
                        WHY IS MY ALT 8000

                        ティーカップ ⚧

                          welp 8k master race

                          Elimeister

                            nice April Fools haha

                            All Guns Blazin

                              1/4b is here

                              GJ3

                                What is 378 stands for?

                                Vigloss ✔
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                                  CrystaL

                                    have -2356 what is it? ^^

                                    LET ME TAKE A #SELFIE

                                      I don't get it. Is it better when you have more DBPR or when you have less? I have 6863, what that means?

                                      TGP_[V]olto_o--(*_*)
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                                        BlueBananah

                                          My friend has 8180 DBPR

                                          TGP_[V]olto_o--(*_*)

                                            just 278 no -- 50.44 winrate

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                                            Elikmer

                                              My DBPR is 8180

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                                              zxcvxqwer

                                                i have an amazing skillshot with my PNIS

                                                Classified

                                                  PENIS? BBH? Yeah sure.. LOL.
                                                  I got 8180/7000.
                                                  This is 140% april fools.

                                                  Tree

                                                    wat is this

                                                    Mr.Hankey

                                                      Is probaly a joke but if anything I guess selfishplay --> higher DBPR

                                                      Everybodey I know that play same hero/role alot has high DBPR and versitile players have -DBPR

                                                      <slugma>thΔll

                                                        ROFLing here :DDDD

                                                        Биба77001

                                                          Guys let's go train for ti4, my selfish rating 5.6k!

                                                          instagram.com/kristagramma

                                                            Дебилы 1 апреля.

                                                            fortness ^

                                                              8180/7000 Nice.

                                                              scrick

                                                                This is totally broken.

                                                                Juan Punch Man

                                                                  I´m a pig.

                                                                  SR

                                                                    my nickname is NS my hometown is Moscow Russia

                                                                    OGLoc

                                                                      GitHub empty(

                                                                      ßishmussy

                                                                        faultsnyxnYxNyx PNIS April fools.

                                                                        ㄨ

                                                                          8180 is my rating lol.. I dont know what is higher -3000 or 8180

                                                                          showmeyourskill

                                                                            which is better - or + I dont know

                                                                            ®Akoubalitos®

                                                                              GMT +2 still 31 of march here.So thanks for the april fools reminder.(if thats the case i dont trust the penis thing till wensday)

                                                                              BRKEN

                                                                                -3673 ya i broke it

                                                                                jljl

                                                                                  APRIL'S FOOL

                                                                                  ikerberos

                                                                                    t.Errorf("expected nyx to be 'nyx', got '%s'", nyx)

                                                                                    [A]narchy-

                                                                                      April's Fool lol

                                                                                      zookeeper

                                                                                        DBPR
                                                                                        6863
                                                                                        ????

                                                                                        4Skin

                                                                                          It's not April 1 in Norway yet... Almost got me there

                                                                                          Eheroduelist

                                                                                            DBPR ranges from -3000 up to 7000
                                                                                            <- 8180

                                                                                            I think it's broken xD

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                                                                                            My Aim Sucks(Yaong)

                                                                                              i have same rate with dendi lol

                                                                                              Me against the world

                                                                                                dat april fool

                                                                                                Лорд Перегар

                                                                                                  No sources on github :(

                                                                                                  func main() {
                                                                                                  for {
                                                                                                  print("nyx ")
                                                                                                  }
                                                                                                  }

                                                                                                  4Skin

                                                                                                    Did anyone actually read the context? You probably should, because it is fucking hilarious :D

                                                                                                    tropiç

                                                                                                      I'm better than RTZ its broken for sure