Ever heard of WAR?
Wins Above Replacement (WAR) is a stat used in Baseball and Basketball to measure how many "wins" a team would have with a player opposed to another player at replacement level. Often players are judged by their KDs to evaluate impact, but I believe that KD is just one factor in total impact - and so I considered combining other statistical elements to see whether players were being valued fairly through the stats combined.
The methodology is simple - thanks to Waste's leaderboards that track KD, First Bloods and Score we have three separate but equally important statistics on which to measure players.
Take a statline like Risk's, for example, and calculate his WAR:
A 1.13 KDR, 1.10 First Bloods Ratio (FBR), and 215.4 score. So let's multiply them all together - 215.4*1.13*1.10 = 267.74. We could end here, but we'd be working with some pretty hefty numbers, and WAR is usually expressed as a number between 0-10. So to get those big numbers down to numbers we can work with in terms of WAR we divide the final total - 267.75 - by the number of players who've played in a match this season, which is 64. This (267.74/64) brings us down to a manageable 4.2.
Waste has done all the calculations for everyone who has played in James's 6v6 draft league - leaderboards can be found
here - and found the averages over the league as a reference: so far in James's 6v6, the average KDR is 0.98, the average FBR is 0.94, and the average Score is 110.1. This would lead to a league average WAR of 1.58.
Now how do we apply that in terms of scale? Well, this chart identifies the classification of players' WAR scores in Baseball - but I think the ranges vary a bit in NW.
I think of NWs ranges as
0-1 Replacement level
1-2 Utility Player
2-4 Average Starter
4-6 All-Star Level Player
6+ Superstar/MVP caliber
Waste's leaderboards has everyone's WAR scores so far under the Matches tab and the next post will be screenshots of the scores sorted from top to bottom. Lemme know what you think about NW Wins Above Replacement!
