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Stats Galore! We've rounded up the stats from day 1-4 of the groupstages! Find out who was most picked, most banned, most valuable and which player and team got the best records as we head into the main event on Thursday. If the timezones caught you off guard, this is your chance to get up to speed before the real action gets underway! The following stats include all games up to Day 5. All tiebreakers which occured on Day 5 or later are not included, primarily because those games for the most part are for seeding and not for determining which teams are in or out of the main event.

To determine hero value, I gave points based on drafting performance: one point for being picked onto the winning team, .75 points for being banned by either team, and .5 points for being drafted onto the losing team. I summed all the points from each category, then divided each category by the total number of games played. Then I added those coefficients together and multiplied it by 100.

The maximum score on this scale is 100, and it is the equivalent of being drafted into and winning every single game. A 75 is the equivalent of being banned every game or being drafted every game and winning 50%. A 50 is the same as being drafted every game and losing every game or being drafted to the winning team 50% of the time. You get the idea. The following heroes were the DAC's most highly valued heroes according to this method--there is no accolade for Juggernaut because, quite honestly, I couldn't find anything that Juggernaut did the best (or even very close to the best). He was nearish to the top in about everything relevant, but did not outplay his peers in any particular category that I could find.

The following image uses two measurements that I might need to define. Unique heroes per game is simply the total number of heroes drafted over the course of the group stage divided by the number of games played. Team kill participation is the number of kills multiplied by four and divided by the number of assists. In other words, if every player participated in every kill his team made, team participation would be 1 (or 100%). Most teams land between a 40% and a 55% in team kill partipation historically.

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