I do not understand how riot has not implemented a play 2 days in a row ruling.
If a team plays their first set on friday they should have to play on saturday.
Otherwise it gives an edge to that team if they get a pass on saturday.
It seems like a simple oversight, but maybe they just do not think it means that much.
Dynikus2 votesWhy would that be a rule?
Avatar811 votesWhy would that be a rule?
look at the data for this. Track the the teams that won and lost and against who they played. For instance in week six this was the only time that both games were lost by the friday squads on sunday. 1 of those squads was Echo Fox, and the other was CLG. CLG played TSM who are playing way better than any team to come out of NA ever, and Echo Fox lost to NRG who aren't exactly a strong team, but Echo Fox has shown they are the weakest team. If you do not think that having an extra day to prep between sets is not a large advantage you must not pay much attention to the esports scene.
Dynikus1 votesthey know very well in advance who they're going to be playing against when, and they're all practicing basically every day. I don't really see how what day they play on effects anything. Sounds to me like correlation without causation.
Avatar811 votesthey know very well in advance who they're going to be playing against when, and they're all practicing basically every day. I don't really see how what day they play on effects anything. Sounds to me like correlation without causation.
I guess I will respectfully have to disagree. To say there is no weight carried by having a day between games on stage is overlooking a lot of small things that matter. A lot of these small things do make for an edge for that team.
Avatar811 votesTracking the trend it shows that in 7 weeks of play there have been 10 wins, 4 loses, and 0 loses to another team that played also played on Friday; across the NA LCS. This may not be the largest sample size to test on, but this trend is worrisome.
Shadowatom1 votesI don't think it's important enough. Your data pool is pretty small (14 games), so you can't really make a true "trend" from it imo, so that's technically a moot point. While teams do get the advantage of practicing in-between days/get a day of rest, I think the impact that practice has is minimal, especially because they would be scrimming against the other team that also has that day off, so... it's probably more so a rest day for teams with a bit of analysis on their opponents for the next day. In fact, when you think about it, Friday teams that play consecutively technically go into Saturday with a disadvantage because the teams that didn't play on Friday are able to analyze and practice counter-tactics with more teams to scrim with (5 other teams).
BigBellBrute1 votesFirst off, the data set is small. . Secondly, 3 of the wins involved TSM, who hasn't lost to anyone on any day. Thirdly, Another win involved IMT who has only lost to TSM. Also two more wins involved someone who beat Fox. Fourthly, most of the games went according to how we would expect given the standings. Only two did not. Both involved CLG. One was APX>CLG. But this was early in the split and CLG was playing like garbage early in the split. The other was CLG>C9 last week. Well CLG is playing much better now.
All in all I don't see anything that leads me to believe that the team playing Saturday has any significant disadvantage against the team that played Friday.