Most Dota nerds have a shortlist of third party websites and services they regularly refer to for stats and the like; my personal one includes the usual Dotabuff and Dota2ProTracker, alongside Opendota and Stratz, but one that rarely gets the attention it might deserve is spectral.gg. It hosts a bunch of neat stats, but is ultimately the personal website of the creator Leamare, who recently started including amateur tournaments in their meta reports, and they were gracious enough to add Clarity League to this list upon request.
While I think this is fun enough to browse as is (because there’s a lot to it), I wanted to share this writeup as a brief showcase of the kinds of stats this gives us easy access to, as well as to essentially announce the addition of Clarity’s stats to it. Every Division based season is available, and I think that provides a lot of potential for cool content, particularly as it allows easy comparison between seasons and players’ and teams’ performances between them. You can access a list of Clarity League reports on Spectral here.
Big shoutout again to Leamare!
Side & Pick
My experience tends to be that teams don’t put too much thought into the coin flip choices. It mostly boils down to “I like playing this side more”, “This side has better overall winrate”, “We have a really good mid player so let’s choose second pick to give them matchup control”. The season 10 stats, thus far, seem to justify not paying too much attention to this choice:
Radiant Winrate: 52.17%
Dire Winrate: 47.83%
First Pick Winrate: 50%
Second Pick Winrate: 50%
Of course, the importance of these choices likely varies between divisions, but presumably not by too much. These are fairly basic stats, but we can also look at their combinations — when teams are playing Radiant, they’re also FP 42.04% of games, and SP 57.96% of games. Both Radiant and Dire do have very slightly better winrates when FP.
The same section also provides a number of averages and totals (there’s been a total of 16 rampages thus far in Season 10!), but due to the division-based nature of Clarity, I find this less interesting than some of the more individual team, player and hero stats.
Team & Individual Stats
- At an immense 92% winrate off the back of a 13–1 record, Bianco’s Div 3 team is the most successful roster of the season thus far.
- Their upcoming playoff opponent, HungryBrowny, sports the widest hero pool, having picked a total of 51 unique heroes in their 17 played matches.
- The, uh, freshly banned Sabi (team Gav) has showcased the widest individual hero pool, with 15 unique heroes played — a number that others may overtake, seeing as Sabi won’t exactly be able to overtake.
- The Records page shows a much wider array of individual records: unsurprisingly, the highest GPM record belongs to Gabe, with 1093 GPM on Luna; associate Koros, meanwhile, holds the XPM record at 1457 on Puck. Abba’s 32 kill PL performance leads the pack on that front, while Kot holds the dubious honor of having the most deaths at 20. I could keep going for a while, just copying the data off this list, but instead I’ll leave the link for your perusal.
- One stat I find interesting is the range of averages for teams: Poppy’s team averages a league-low 25.6 kills per game — made more impressive the fact that their games are on average also the longest (at 47:37 average game time) — while the aformentioned Bianco team tops out at 42.9.
- In perhaps the least surprising stat, the Crispy Bacon team averages the most deaths at 39.3, while having the second highest team-total XPM & GPM averages (after Bianco).
Hero Stats
- One interesting insight that Spectral allows for is detailed info on picks and bans by draft phase, as well as hero picks by roles. For example, the top 5 for each role, 1 through 5, are:
Faceless Void, Slark, Luna, Ursa, Anti-Mage
Puck, Ember, OD, Storm, DK
Centaur, DK, Mars, Tide, Doom
Lion, Hoodwink, Rubick, Venge, Tiny
Venge, Lion, Tree, Jakiro, Undying
- As a glimpse into the draft position insight, it’s fairly straightforward to filter the stats to show, for example, the most picked and banned heroes of the second draft phase — Faceless Void, Centaur, Lion, WR and Tree are common go-tos, while the ban list includes Void again, followed by OD, Slark, Puck and Ember.
- You can also review hero duos; for example, the four most common hero pairings are Lion/Centaur, Puck/Venge, Lion/Mars, Centaur/Hoodwink, Venge/DP.
I could keep going for a long while, even for just Season 10 (and that’s without touching on the prior 10 seasons for which we have the same coverage), but I’ll save that for the future, should time allow. In any case, I think this is just a super neat resource that deserves attention, and directing some its way was my primary goal in both asking for the addition of Clarity to Spectral and in writing this.
Have a lovely day friends!
