Eye test or stats(which is more valuable)

both equally valuable. Stats show consistency. Watching the game, you only get one POV at a time, and usually when the POV switches to someone who actually does something.

Someone who goes completely quiet and has no impact for 5 rounds straight prolly won’t even get the POV switched onto him (out of sight out of mind) But if that guy randomly has a solid round with a 2k or 3k. That’s all everyone will remember.

(ex BeYN. Really good clutch player, especially stage 2 and champs, it almost makes you forgot how many times he went sub 150 and sub 100 acs in an a close match)

Then again, if a player has enough of the those moments that ends up winning the team 4 or 5 rounds, even if he didn’t do much the rest of the rounds, the stats won’t show how much impact that guy really had.

The real answer is that stats matter more. Stats are records of past events that happened. They tell us something measurable about the event that occurred, allowing us to place them in a comparative matter.

The most controversial (for good reason) approach you see here alot is just to compare ratings. That rating stat is actually a pretty good stat, but is obviously imperfect as a true proxy for a player's performance, but we don't really have much better.

When people say 'Stats aren't everything', they are technically correct, but they should explain why the stat is improper in some respect to make a point, otherwise they haven't said anything meaningful.

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As an example, I was arguing with someone about how boaster is not the most clutch player in the world (let alone on Fnatic) when he/she brought up the famous stat that he had the highest clutch percentage. Instead of just simply saying 'Stats aren't everything', I pointed out why that stat shouldn't be taken super seriously, which was because he was often in positions where he was clutching vs players who were low hp because they got dinked by his teammates.

Then he told me to go watch his clutches vs BLG, so I did exactly that, and what a shocker, they were against low hp players.
https://youtu.be/1I_wiUETIaM?si=QGXXhPNDMDMir2Q9

eye test

imagine your season is on the line and your star duelist goes from hyper aggressive to missing smoke dash combos, whiffing awp shots, and playing like a kitten

Mako has had it the hardest of any pro there is man, my fav