This post compares the Strength Of Schedule (SOS) for teams in Masters 2 Reykjavik and Masters 3 Berlin.
The strength of schedule is just the average placement of the teams that a team faced. Ties are treated as in the middle of the placement group, for instance, 9-12 ties are all counted as 10.5. The smaller the SOS the tougher the schedule.
SOS is highly seeding and placement dependent so doing better typically means a better SOS.
For Masters 2, Vikings got screwed with a really tough strength of schedule while Crazy Raccoons lost to a pretty weak strength of schedule. TL also had a pretty weak SOS for placing 4th.
The high stats for players like TenZ, Sacy, Derke, and Lakia are more impressive because they faced good opposition.
Masters 2 Reykjavik
Team Matches Maps SOS
1 SEN 4 9 3.13
2 VKS 3 6 4.17
3 FNC 7 16 4.21
4 NU 4 11 4.50
5 V1 4 10 4.63
6 TL 4 9 5.13
7 KRU 3 6 5.17
8 SHK 2 5 5.25
9 X10 3 6 5.67
10 CR 2 4 6.50
The Masters 3 Berlin format of group stages and single elim playoffs makes SOS almost useless since there is very little cross play between groups and a ton of ties. Also group D having a double round robin makes their SOS very different.
This time, CR faced Gambit twice so had a very high SOS. Group A didn't do well in playoffs so their SOS is quite low.
Masters 3 Berlin
Team Matches Maps SOS
1 F4Q 4 10 5.00
2 CR 3 6 5.50
3 NV 5 11 5.60
4 100T 4 10 6.00
5 SEN 5 12 6.00
6 GMB 6 15 6.08
7 G2 6 14 6.92
8 HL 2 4 7.00
9 VS 3 7 7.33
10 KRU 4 9 7.63
11 KS 3 6 7.67
12 ACE 4 10 7.75
13 REX 2 5 8.50
14 ZETA 2 4 8.50
15 SMB 3 8 9.17
The SOS is not comparable between tournaments since there are different numbers of teams, but I calculated an adjusted strength of schedule (SOSa). The formula is
(SOS - 1)/(#Teams - 1)
This makes the average SOS for Masters 2 (5.5) and the average SOS for Masters 3 (8.5) the same SOSa of 0.5.
If both Masters 2 and 3 were double elim, this would make the comparison useful, but since they have different formats you can't get a lot of info out of it.
Team Matches Maps SOS SOSa
1 SEN2 4 9 3.13 0.236
2 F4Q3 4 10 5.00 0.267
3 CR3 3 6 5.50 0.300
4 NV3 5 11 5.60 0.307
5 100T3 4 10 6.00 0.333
6 SEN3 5 12 6.00 0.333
7 GMB3 6 15 6.08 0.339
8 VKS2 3 6 4.17 0.352
9 FNC2 7 16 4.21 0.357
10 NU2 4 11 4.50 0.389
11 G23 6 14 6.92 0.394
12 HL3 2 4 7.00 0.400
13 V12 4 10 4.63 0.403
14 VS3 3 7 7.33 0.422
15 KRU3 4 9 7.63 0.442
16 KS3 3 6 7.67 0.444
17 ACE3 4 10 7.75 0.450
18 TL2 4 9 5.13 0.458
19 KRU2 3 6 5.17 0.463
20 SHK2 2 5 5.25 0.472
21 REX3 2 5 8.50 0.500
22 ZETA3 2 4 8.50 0.500
23 X1023 3 6 5.67 0.519
24 SMB3 3 8 9.17 0.544
25 CR2 2 4 6.50 0.611
Basically teams high on the lists faced better opposition than teams lower on the lists.