Statistical analysis of the best "sleeper" champions
Special thanks to Champion.gg, for providing me with the data I needed to make this happen!
A "Sleeper" is a champion who is very powerful, but not often played. I decided make a list of sleeper champions based on statistics, and after hours of work (I suck at Excel) this was the result.
The "Sleeper Value" is a number assigned to the champions based on their win rate, pick rate and ban rate. The higher the SV, the more sleeper a champion is. I feel that the formula used here gives the best result, taking into account both how strong a champion is and how much they are played.
The Sleeper Value Formula;
((WR/(PR+BR))*WR^(100/3))*10^10, where WR is win rate, PR is pick rate and BR is ban rate.
Playing a sleeper champion gives you a few advantages:
- Your champion tends do to very well
- Your champion is unlikely to be banned or picked by someone else
- Enemies likely won't have experience playing against your champion
Note: Skarner (jungle) was removed from this analysis. His win rate was so insanely high this patch that no matter what formula I used, he would always have the #1 spot, despite obviously not being sleeper. Skarner's Sleeper Value was over 5000, more than 4 times the value of the next champion. Rather than working around such a massive outlier, I simply removed him.
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