Biased NA LCS Standings after Spring Split Week 3

FedoraSteve·2/6/2017, 10:18:17 PM·1 votes·1,640 views

Am I alone in thinking that the standings are biased? I understand that it is a Bo3 format but that doesn't mean that teams with the same match score are the same standing. TSM and FLY both are 5-1, however TSM has struggled so far to close out their match ups while FLY has been sailing through. Say what you want about theoretical difficulty and power rankings but a Standings table should just be analytic. So Teams with equal match wins should be tiered based on individual games win loss ratio. What I mean is TSM has won 10 individual games and lost 7 while FLY has won 11 Individual games and lost 3. If you look at the standings as of this post it shows TSM in second and FLY in 3rd.

I get it, technically they are tied at 5-1 so you might think it doesn't matter but accurately showing team performance is what the standings are for and clearly FLY is out performing TSM so far.

12 Comments

GarthBrooksXD2/6/2017, 10:27:33 PM1 votes

The rules of the game is match wins=victories. The standings are for determining playoff seeding. They'll do playoffs to find the best teams. If you are interested in speculating that fly is better than tsm because they have won their matches more easily, then power rankings are for you xD.

xJLx MCHammer2/6/2017, 11:57:41 PM1 votes

Flyquest has been playing easier teams. TSM fought P1, CLG, and C9. FQ toughest battle was IMT.

Next week they play C9 and we shall see if they can close their games as quick as the other top teams

III BAKURYU III 2/7/2017, 5:11:53 AM1 votes

I personally don't like the overall total win lose record but just instead the If you win your BO3 you are 1-0 period not 1-0//2-1.
I thought the whole point of the BO3 was to just give teams more room to improve but it also goes into standings which again I don't like.

It's impressive if a team goes 18-0// 2-0 their opponents each time but it's also impressive if a team also goes 18-0 but goes 2-1 in each series as it shows they can play out each game and potentially have enough energy to play 3 games all being 30-1 hr each. ( I know 2 teams can't go 18-0 but it's just an example)!

The LOL-Esports site does have TSM ahead of FQ but on other sites FlyQuest are leading TSM so there's that at least

BigBellBrute2/7/2017, 10:15:51 AM1 votes

Maybe the guy that posts standings doesn't concern himself with the proper tiebreakers until the end. As long as the final standings and playoff seedings get done correctly why should anyone give any sort of flip which tied team is posted first in week 3.

TBakes2/7/2017, 5:12:58 PM1 votes

Just to echo here, I read what place they are in by the number on the left, not which teams are above/below. So if FLY and TSM have a 2, the they are tied 2nd. I don't see any bias there.