LoL Ping Stats Before and After: An Analysis

An Overview:

If you haven't seen my original post here it is. This Post is the end result of my work. 137 posts, 40 states, 6 provinces, and 3 separate countries are included. I was hoping for more responses, but this amount of data was enough to get a good idea of how the server move affected how we play LoL. Keep in mind this was not a Simple Random Sample, but a voluntary response collection of data. There is no feasible way to collect an SRS online for LoL pings.

http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/GD/TVVMHyhi-i-want-to-make-a-beforeafter-ping-chart-that-is-state-by-state

While I wanted to paste all of my images right into this post for ease of viewing, it is not possible due to forum limitations and the fact it auto formats pictures and sizes so you'd need to click on each picture to see each chart. That being said I created an imgur album simply to allow for people to fully view all of the information and that is listed below.

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This includes All of the charts broken down into digestible changes for before and after the server move to Chicago with the entire Excel Sheet posted for a more complete visual of the data.

An Analysis:

While the little attachment I used as a thumbnail does a good job summarizing the data, I feel like the data should be viewed in its entirety to fully understand who is benefitted and who is hurt in this move. While it is clearly a positive result, there are a few areas that were hurt in the move, namely Alaska and Hawaii.

With the amount of ping dropping a good 15 ms across the board, Riot did somewhat achieve their goal of not only lowering overall ping, but bringing the range of ping closer together. As you look at the charts note how the end results are much less extreme than they previously were, many states ended much closer to the 40-60 range which as a result decreased the standard deviation of average ping. I did not calculate this, however It is clear to see with the visuals and the raw data that this is true.

Most people benefited from the move. I have also noticed that the people who were negatively affected such as the western states, are actually just brought in line with normal ping rates with the rest of the states. I hope this data helps people see what Riot's intentions were, and the amount of success they had with this move. Though it is not to be overlooked that according to my data for the US, they were 6 ping above their target goal of a 50 ping average across the states. This being said an overall reduction of 21.5 ping is very substantial and we as a community are better off as a result.

I did this so that we could have some actual data about the move instead of people guessing or having Riot tell us the move was a success with no data to back it up. I hope this clears the air of any confusion, and feel free to link this to people who may say or believe the the move was not in the best interest of the LoL gaming community as a whole.