Sajn~ said:
I compliment you for this list and the effort you've put in it.
A great overview, so you basically know what to expect.
The only bitter side effect is, that some ppl leave nearly every single wsg they cannot win, just for their statistic to look good.
That's just pathetic and some really should think about the after taste.
It happens very fast, that someone's opinion of a normally great player changes and the bottom line is that it leads to the opposite.
But hey, each to his own.
Anyway, keep it up
wall of text alert!
Glad you raised this. I've been waiting for this discussion to start.
"There are lies, damn lies, and wow armory statistics
I call the skewing of stats by /afking the
Halfbreed effect. Halfbreed will never be included in any of my spreadsheets.
I hate /quitters and /afkers. With a passion. I've played maybe 1500-2000 wsg's and quit out of about maybe 10-15 of them, mostly for RL reasons, e.g. pregnant wife with morning sickness throwing up on my computer desk (lol), or deliveries arriving, or urgent phone calls from family in New Zealand etc.
I did quit out of a couple of wsg's in cyclone after some twats on the side I was fighting on made 5 naked level 10 gnomes and ran around /farting and cyboring people for lols, and another couple of quits because of speed hackers taking flags and floating 200 yards above midfield for >1 hr.
I've also quit a couple of wsg's when players on our side were farming and the game was going to end, in these cases I quit so I can log a twink on the opposite faction to keep the BG going and to try and teach the farmers a lesson.
I would love for blizzard to add a separate BG's joined stat, so I could provide completion stats.
I'd hoped that a wsg battleground stats addon and website I'm building atm would deal with this issue but the blizzard API call
GetBattlefieldStatData() does not report hks, deaths, flags etc for players who quit, only players in the BG when it finished.
For more info check this thread.
http://twinkinfo.com/forums/10-19-bracket/7655-help-wanted-recording-wsg-stats-twinkinfo-users.html
It won't be too hard to trigger an event when someone quits a bg and store their name in the addon .lua file for later on and report the number of quits a player has made, but this data will only be available if more people install the killingfields addon. I'll add quitters it to the list of things to look at.
Glad you liked the stats, I've had a lot of fun and learnt a lot of new techy nerd skillz playing around with this. The spreadsheets are just a taste of what's to come. I hope to have a searchable, sortable, filterable 19 twink stats website up this weekend or next, and I have a couple more twink stats projects that should be finished in the next few weeks which I hope you're gonna like.