To Bring Clarity to the LCS Ladder Ranking...

I'm working on a Google Doc to track some fairly basic stats in an alternative method to the current ladder ranking system. I should have it full finished and ready to just plug in for updates either tomorrow or Wednesday. But we'll see.

Currently LCS only tracks match wins and losses to determine seeding and then further categorizes it via the "% wins of games played", which I'm pretty sure that they're awful at math if that's actually true, because that would still place NV in 7th, not 5th. But anyways, it ends up looking like this...

http://www.lolesports.com/en_US/na-lcs/na_2017_summer/standings/regular_season

a bunch of ties with no real data to show why CLG is ranked above Dig or Immortals and it just bugs the heck out of me.

So anyways, the system I'm proposing here is fairly simple. Move away from the win-loss system to a points based system.In the event of a tie in game points, evaluate the records to see who holds the better record, in the event of a tie in record, evaluate for a head to head tie breaker, in the event that does not exist, evaluate cumulative Gold Difference. When it comes to seeding for end of the season tournament, if the Gold Difference between 2 teams is less than 5,000 gold, play a Bo3 match to settle it.

Points are awarded in the following manner; every game is worth 1 point, in the event a team should sweep, or win a match 2-0, they will be awarded all 3 possible points.

So my results currently look like this:

1. Immortals, 12 game points, record 5-1, 41.6k Gold difference

2. CLG, 12 game points, record 5-1, 33.8k Gold Difference

3. Dignitas, 12 games points, record 5-1, 28.7k Gold difference

4. TSM, 12 game points, record 4-2

5. Cloud9, 11 Game Points, record 3-3, holds head to head tie breaker over Echo Fox

6. Echo Fox, 11 Game Points, record 3-3,

7. NV, 8 Game Points

8. Flyquest, 5 Game points

9. Phoenix1, 4 Game Points

10. Team Liquid, 3 Game points

I think this provides a little bit more clarity, though Team Liquid has won a match, P1, has won more individual games. Liquid has also been swept 4 times compared to P1's twice. As I continue to fill out the Gold Difference columns I think it will become more clear that TL is in fact the worse team in the LCS right now, where some of P1's matches have been very close losses. The biggest perspective this provides is where teams fall based on performance and why they're in the spot they're in right now.