Hey all,
This is the title for one of my papers that I have developed for Advanced Theories in Travel Demand Forecasting. I have created an online survey, using Google Forms, got nearly 1200 responses in 48 hours and used that to analyze timing patterns and behaviors of League of Legends™ players.
I have created an artificial measure of how strong each Champion (Characters that you can select to represent yourself) and each team that attended IPL4 Tournament (International Gaming Network Pro League). Using this measures, I tried to see if top players' choices affected common players after IPL4. The result is that, Champions selected by teams that performed good at IPL4 were selected more as a result of common players being affected by such tournaments.
The second part of the study was about people's choice of gaming time and duration based on their player properties such as total number of Normal and Ranked Games played and current ELO (which is the ranking system used by League of Legends™). The study shows that top level players (that has >1800 ELO ratings) play usually really late at night, probably starting around midnight, leading to unusual sleeping patterns.
Preferred Time of Gaming
The paper is available here for further reading.
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