A while back D3 posted some interesting stats on the game, but while the stats are interesting, I didn’t feel they revealed anything interesting about the gameplay other than that there are a lot more players at the 2*/1* stage than the forum commonly believed.
I was posting this in the Sentry/Hood thread but decided to refine this more. We talk about balance all the time but without statistics to support it, there’s no way any individual can have enough of experience to even speculate how powerful a character is. So, if we can have the following statistics:
Number of games and win rate by team with character X against teams without character X
Number of games and win rate by team without character X against teams with character X
If necessary apply some filter like say the character has to be above a certain level, though I don’t think it’d be necessary because it’s not like people are purposely running 1/0/0 Sentry to try to lose. This would also filter out any game where the character is featured, which I don’t think is very useful for balance because weird things happen when a character gets to be level 249. I realize this might take some time to run, but it should be very helpful to players, and devs too if they don’t do something like this already. A balanced character should have roughly the same number of games and win rate for both stats, while extreme difference in both number of games and win rate would imply a significant imbalance.