Gold differences graphs are incorrect with "negative gold" (minor spoilers from semi-finals)

Iselian·10/17/2014, 8:38:14 PM·8 votes·1,896 views

Throughout the LCS Riot has been showing gold differences graphs as a game has gone on. This is fantastic and great! I really like seeing information such as this. The only problem is that there is a simple inaccuracy in how it's shown.

http://i.imgur.com/tgnHoWH.png

The above is a gold graph that comes from a recent semi-finals game showing clearly that the difference is "negative gold." Above the X axis (when blue has more gold) it's positive and one might think normally that below the X axis is a negative value but this graph is showing a difference between the two teams. The difference is a positive value, regardless of which team has more gold. It's a little thing yes but it's a simple mistake that can be easily fixed.

6 Comments

Hero of skyloft10/17/2014, 9:04:42 PM1 votes

The "negative" gold value is the amount red team is ahead of blue team, or how behind blue team is. I admit it's not a good system for eyeing the different teams as separate entities (that would be covered with an ascending graph that compares the gold gain with a blue line and a red line), but it makes sense if we are looking at it from blue team's perspective.

cigarettes10/17/2014, 10:25:11 PM1 votes

mfw riot employees cant basic graph

Report Team GG10/18/2014, 1:54:37 AM1 votes

no because your system would sacrifice readability. because when its positive team1 has an advantage when it's negative team2 has an advantage. therefore it's straightforward. if we took the absolute value of it we would lose readability.

darkorpse10/18/2014, 10:03:11 AM1 votes

They could rotate it 90 degrees so the divider is vertical and then there is no "negative" or "positive" aspect as you're trying to imply, though there's nothing wrong with the current display.

BenignOmniscient10/18/2014, 10:20:53 AM1 votes

what a pointless thing to complain about.

DaejinTye10/18/2014, 10:26:15 AM1 votes

If they removed the " - " sign from it, it'd still be just as readable and straight forward.

The question is, why is there a + or - before the amount of gold? We already know Blue=Blue Team and Red=Red Team.