[D] Three Important Factors in Replay Analysis(Z)

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On July 10 2012 02:08 Mahtasooma wrote:
"Spending" is also very relevant because virtually everyone can work on that.

It's as simple as:

Haz money? Check.
Haz larvae? Check.
Not saving money for anything (like mutas)? Check.
(Haz supply is irrelevant because there should always be supply)

Then why aren't you building stuff. ==> Get more apm / spending awareness.

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On July 10 2012 02:11 TangSC wrote:

Very good point, especially larva production - I updated "Economy Management" to include larva. Thanks very much for the suggestion!

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On July 10 2012 03:40 Sianos wrote:


I would make it different. Not only saying keep your larva low, but also saying having less then 10 energy on each queens or something like that.

To the rating. B 'Matches your skilllevel or slightly better' is a bit too undetailed in my opinion. If you say something like this you have to include a table with benchmarks for all skilllevels or it isn´t really usefull. Instead i would say to B: 'Performing better or equal than your opponent'. This is something you can actually check while watching the replay and don´t change, because of the player get better.

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This is not some ambiguous thread. It's extremely useful. If you are on 3 bases vs 2, or 5 bases vs 3, your "E" is good. Now, work on on Tech and Army. If you lost a stupid game even though you were way ahead in econ, check the army values when you lost the game. Chances are, you were way behind in army value, and 1k less in roaches will never beat a higher value army of colossi, +3 upgrades, etc.

Basically, once you've secured your third, and held off that Toss aggression with such a huge lead, you no longer need to focus on your econ. You already have more bases. You don't need more drones, especially once you've reached 70. You need to match what Toss is doing. Match your tech, to his tech. Match your army, to his army. With a higher econ, but even army and tech, there is no way to lose. Too many times, people lose because of their 6 bases vs a 2 or 3 base Toss, because they only have roaches against sentry/colossi/blink/upgraded deathball. Unless you have lots of mutas and Toss doesn't have 3 bases with HT and lots of blink stalkers, you will never beat colossi without broodlord tech.

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On July 10 2012 15:06 Sianos wrote:
Yes, its easier, but how do you know that it matches your skilllevel without specific benchmarks or other information?

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On July 10 2012 16:04 Poffel wrote:
A couple of comments...

Economy management should include expanding in an appropriate manner.

Maybe a fourth criterion should be something like "reaction time", maybe it could also be included in your second category as "map presence". At least for me, knowing when your opponent expands and delaying it are two different pair of shoes; likewise, just because a drop passes an overlord unfortunately doesn't automatically shut it down. (But maybe that's just me because I'm terrible at watching the minimap.)

The A-B-C-rating seems undercomplex to me. I get that you want to keep things simple, but, firstly, A and C are absolute criteria, while B is relative. Secondly, what is "satisfactory" for any given level of play if "few to no mistakes" indicates mastery? Last, how do you deal with the common assumption (that I share by the way) that a 1-A-rating according to your scale would be sufficient to reach (low) master league, even if the standards regarding 2 and 3 are deficient?

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