This Week’s Focus: Updating Previous Rankings

Methodology

If you have been keeping up, so far I have completed five different hero spotlights: Zenyatta, Mercy, Tracer, D.Va, and Winston; which have ran through the past five weeks of play as part of my weekly Overwatch League Stat Breakdowns.

Today, I am going to go back and revisit my previous rankings, and I have a few reasons for doing so.

The first of which is to simply update the previous standings, and see how, or if, things have changed. Zenyatta, for example, is a hero that is played in virtually every game - and it’s been five weeks since I have measured how the best players stack up. With nearly three times the data, the statistics for how each player performs are now more relevant and more substantial than ever.

The second reason is that I wanted to make some adjustments (and fix some small errors) in what information I base my results on. In most cases, I have taken more stats into consideration, which will hopefully result in more accurate rankings.

Lastly, there’s a reason I chose the heroes that I did over the past five weeks - they have, by far, the largest sample sizes. Without adequate information, statistics lose a lot of their usefulness. Because of that, I wanted to hold off for a week or so before continuing to rank other heroes, to allow some time for their data sets to grow. The the next heroes in line will likely be Lucio, Genji, and Widowmaker - although, I will probably have to make some adjustments due to their more niche natures.

Criteria

In each of the following cases, I have limited the players to those who I have at least 90 minutes of playtime data on the respective hero. Qualifying players are then measured against each other in a variety of statistics that are specific to that hero. These rankings, like all of my previous rankings, are based on a combination of both raw and weighted averages, the latter of which account for the strength of opponent and adjust accordingly.

For more information on how I conduct these rankings, check out my previous installments.