[2020] From the garbagemen here at u.gg (RE: “u.gg data is garbage”)

Alan here, former CTO at U.GG. As of last night, I was promoted to a new title. I’m now CGO (Chief Garbage Officer) - yes, that’s a promotion here at U.GG. We take our garbage seriously. Part of why we got into this in 2018 was because we thought the lol sites out then were garbage. We’ve finally become the thing we swore to destroy.

On the real, Riot August raises some very good points, especially when filters narrow the data size:

IMO it feels off when data sites are presenting things with low sample size as "real." I'll have people telling me "look at how broken 59% winrate Ivern is at master+" and then I see the data they're referencing has only 120 games.

While we can’t control the sample size there, we agree it’s our responsibility to represent the data correctly. We plan on implementing a disclaimer when the filters lower the match count (think Ivern in Masters+) cautioning the low sample size.

We'll try our best to do our part. Now all of you redditors do yours - play those games and get the high elo sample size up. How are there this many reddit Challengers and this few Masters+ games?

EDIT: For more technical details, read my comment: https://reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/g7d7uc/from_the_garbagemen_here_at_ugg_re_ugg_data_is/fogmaa4/