Goal for this week.

For starters, We need data.

To do this i plan to scrape about 3-4 weeks of data from the solo ladder ( http://www.leagueoflegends.com/ladders/solo-5x5)  and store it in a database. This will allow me to conduct analysis to best determine what the problem is.

The scraper will be implemented in python storing data into a MySQL database.

Nothing big this week

Hello and welcome all,

Over the coming year or so i plan to be working with Riot Games to improve the ELO ranking system for the popular video game, League of Legends.
I feel that the system is currently flawed. Your ELO is highly volatile and thus a bad indication of player skill. I plan to rework the calculation system to make you ELO much more stable and a better indicator of skill. Other factors like duo queuing also effect how well a game can be played.

At the moment i only have ideas but i will slowly develop these into hopefully a paper to present to Riot highlighting the flaws in the current system and how the system i propose will fix this.