Player map stats have arrived!

I debated for a while whether I would try to include any player-related stats on this site. It’s clear that Blizzard has much better data than I could ever hope to have, even if it doesn’t reveal most of it. Clearly, I can’t tell you who gets the most DPS or kills or healing, so I figured I’d start with the minimum I could do and, if it’s not too much trouble, improve from there.

So here it is! I’ve compiled and posted the map usage for every player who played at least one map in the first season of the Overwatch League, along with the percentage of maps they were used on in the regular season and their playoff usage. The percentage data is admittedly imperfect, as it doesn’t account for players who switched teams (like Fissure) or who were on their teams for a limited part of the season (like Geguri).

There are other things that I could potentially add, like W-L record, but I’ll admit that even that might be too much for me to handle, especially with the league adding eight new teams, which will increase my overall record-keeping by 66%. Still, if there’s something you’d like to see added, let me know and I’ll see if I can do it without going insane.

In any case, there are some interesting things numbers you can crunch, even with this limited data set. For instance:

  • Six players played in 100% of their team’s maps during the regular season, two each from Florida (Zebbosai, Zuppeh), the L.A. Gladiators (Biggoose, Shaz), and New York (Meko, Jjonak). Kellex would have managed it for Boston, except that he graciously ceded his spot in the lineup for the last map of the season to Snow.
  • Speaking of Snow, he, Avast (Boston), Iddqd (San Francisco), and Numlocked (Houston) played in exactly one map during the season.
  • The aforementioned Meko and Jjonak played in the most regular-season maps total, with 173. Add playoff maps and they both paced the league with 207 maps played.
  • 13 players, the most in the league, played at least one map for Dallas and Shanghai. On the other end of things, Florida and New York each used the fewest players (9).
  • London used a lot of different players throughout the season, but almost exclusively relied on its “core six” during the playoffs, as you can see from this clipping of my spreadsheet.
  • Speaking of the “core six,” the first six players to play a map for a team’s first map of the season accounted for 75.3% of all maps played. The six players above played 100% of their team’s maps, while Boston’s Kalios had the lowest percentage, with just 24.9% of maps played.

Got any other questions? Let me know and I’ll see if I can find it in my data set!

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