Role Selection Change Pick 5 Roles

Speeedy·9/4/2019, 3:00:01 PM·2 votes·2,310 views

Instead of picking your primary and 2nd role, lets make you pick all 5 roles in order from most want to play to least. Lets go through an example if 5 players are in the que

Player 1: Mid-Bot-JG-Top-Sup Player 2: Mid-Bot-Top-Sup-JG Player 3: Bot-Mid-Sup-Top-JG Player 4: Top-Mid-Bot-Sup-JG Player 5: Top-JG-Mid-Sup-Bot

Player 1-5 are in order of when they que up for a game so Player 1 gets Mid, 2 gets Bot, 3 gets Sup, 4 get Top, 5 gets JG. Players 5-1 are in order of when they que up Player 5 gets Top, 4 gets Mid, 3 gets Bot, 2 gets Sup, 1 gets JG.

The average pick for players 1-5 is 1.8 The average pick for players 5-1 is 2.2

Thoughts?

2 Comments

Kattzy9/5/2019, 12:15:57 AM1 votes

Interesting idea. I see you're using queue order to determine role selection. There are a ton of different ways to optimize, though:

Maximize number of people playing their #1 pick (so 3 people would be super happy on the hypothetical team, the jg would be fine since 2nd choice, but the supp would be bummed bc 4th choice)
Minimize number of people playing their least liked roles (player 3 would not be thrilled to get supp, but everyone else would have a top 2 pick)
Use historical data for longer-term optimization (e.g., if players 1-4 all had their top picks in the last 3 games but player 5 did not, maybe that would mean player 5 gets 1st choice)

I feel like this could all get really complicated, though, and I also wonder if adding that layer of complexity would yield better results. The existing system should result in Player 1: mid or fill as supp, Player 2: mid or fill as supp, Player 3: bot, Player 4: top, Player 5: jg. These are different from the two results you gave but would also be either a 1.8 or 2 on average.

Just some thoughts!