This post is the foreword for the topic "Sciences behind League". In this topic, I want to cast some light on the ambiguous concepts, which have never been officially published or confirmed by Riot Games, like
+) Armor and magic penetration/ reduction
+) MMR (Match Making Rating) in relation to Elo rating system.
+) Provisional matches on the assumption of a relation with Gaussian distribution. "Fresh accounts".
+) etc.
+) etc.
Those concepts have never been clarified and we can just simply guess, estimate, probe,... However, no matter which particular methods have been used, they must be based on logic reasoning and scientific foundation, and must be obtained using basic knowledge of mathematics and statistics and the like. That is where we can begin our exploration.
For clarity, I will repeat the DISCLAIMER below at the beginning of every post the disclaimer is applied:
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DISCLAIMER: due to the ambiguous nature of the issues which have never been officially confirmed by the publisher – Riot Games, all the references herein are just to back the reasoning and assumption, they can not be considered to be unquestionable proofs to trust. Furthermore, also due to the ambiguity, the degree of certainty of the discussion should be judged by the readers themselves.
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For the math, in my view, no matter how exact or wrong or beautiful or ugly it is, the math is simply the math: it would be nothing than annoying numbers and miscellaneous signs if it cannot help us better at the matter we interest – playing League in this case. For me on playing League, math is just one way to digitalize thoughts and feelings through digits and signs; one of other ways I have been using, for example, is language (through words and phrases and idioms and the like).
For the math, in my view, no matter how exact or wrong or beautiful or ugly it is, the math is simply the math: it would be nothing than annoying numbers and miscellaneous signs if it cannot help us better at the matter we interest – playing League in this case. For me on playing League, math is just one way to digitalize thoughts and feelings through digits and signs; one of other ways I have been using, for example, is language (through words and phrases and idioms and the like).
This post was completed; there would be just minor adjustments if any on this post
Last update: January 26, 2016
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