Hello forumers,
As some of you will know, BlitzStars.com has now been live and in BETA for a few days.
For those who haven't visited yet, BlitzStars is a basic World of Tanks: Blitz player stats and history website/webapp. The aim is to provide statistical data that is clear, helpful and interesting. Once a player has been searched for, their statistics begin to be recorded over time.
As an example, take the image below which is a screenshot from my own (SockRobber(eu)) page - with 'Show tank averages' selected and the Conqueror's row clicked.
The aim of BlitzStars is more than just 'here are some stats and ratings' - it's designed to be a tool to help investigate your playstyle and performance. In the screenshot above, the data (made clear by the colourings) suggests to me that if I wanted to improve my performance and winrate in the Conq, I should consider the fact that my spot rate (>30th percentile) and per minute statistics (two in >40th) are in a lower percentile bracket than most of my other stats (which are mostly >50th and >60th).
A low spot rate and per minute statistics suggests that I have played the Conq too cautiously tomaximise my performance at my current skill level.
An example of a more well rounded performance would be in my T-34, where my percentiles are equal (>90%) across the board.
I find this kind of visual data can really help point out statistical issues and point to where I can improve my gameplay.
I find percentiles are a much better way to judge statistics than mean averages. Being 10% above the average can mean two very different things in two different tanks (this is one of the major flaws in the WN8 formula in my opinion).
Being in the 60th percentile always means that a stat is better than 60% of all the other recorded (same tank, same stat) stats. In one tank that might be 5% above mean, in another that could be 10% above mean. Therefore percentiles provide a truer reflection of 'how much better' or 'how much worse' than average.
There are many graphs and datapoints that I hope people will find interesting and useful. The site is in BETA and I'd be interested to get feedback and suggestions for any additional data points people would like included.
I will continue to work on adding things and improving the site regularly during the BETA period before things become more stable and the site goes gold.
BETA Update 1
Since the BETA begun there have been numerous tweaks and fixes across the site. In particular:
- WN8 ratings have been added ( * see notes below for details)
- Mobile optimisations, particularly when clicking on a row in the main tanks table on a player's page (screenshot below). My aim is that the mobile version of the site should be just as usable as the desktop version (hard when dealing with displaying data-heavy content).
- 'Periodic data' included in the graphs. (So stats derived from >100 battle periods for the player stats, and from >25 battle periods for each individual tank).
Some final notes:
Yes, there is already a post about the site made by somebody (thank you) a few days ago. There has been feedback - thanks folks - and I have read all the replies. But I thought I would start an 'offical' post where I can interact with replies etc where the post title wasn't quite so inflammatory. On that note - BlitzStars was originally developed as 'BlitzStats' (hence my forum name) as a personal project, however by the time I realised it might be good enough to share, the blitzstats.com domain had been registered and the registrant was not wanting to give up the name. Stats to Stars was a 1 letter change and made things easy...
WN8: The means used in the formula are from the BlitzStars database (which is at around ~5000 players currently), and only count players with over 100 battles in each respective tank. Therefore the WN8 numbers will vary if compared with other places. The overall WN8 (the one at the top of the page, rather than per tank) only includes tanks with over 50 battles. The WN8 formula is the standard formula with no tweaks. But the data used will differ slightly, and such so will the results.
Thanks for reading folks. I hope the site will be useful and interesting to people. Leave any feedback below or via DM.
Cheers,
SockRobber (eu)
Edited by BlitzStats, 20 September 2015 - 07:13 PM.