I wrote a program to simulate champions 100000 times and these were the results:
https://ibb.co/ftpn6bs
The most likely winners were Gambit (33%), followed by Acend, Envy, Liquid and SEN all at around 14%. See the link for much more detailed data.
Notes about the simulation:
- Vivo Keyd is likely underrated because none of their data was with Mwzera.
- X10 is likely underrated because none of their data was with Patiphan.
- Liquid might be underrated because some of their data is pre-Nivera.
- "pts" and "diff" can be ignored, I originally designed this for football.
Interesting observations:
- Gambit has a higher chance of winning their group than any other team does to even advance.
- The simulation only gave VS a 2% chance to win. Personally I think it should be at least 10%. I think the program views VS poorly because it thinks they should've beaten the local Korean opposition by bigger margins (13-2s instead of 13-7s). But imo they just weren't tryharding those games because they knew they would win easily anyway. I guess we'll see who's right in a few weeks.
- Crazy Raccoon is more likely to make it to semis than Fnatic is to win the event.
- Team Secret has a 22% chance to advance while KRU only has 5%, yet they both have about the same chance to make the semis (0.5%).