HLTV's CSGO Rating in VALORANT

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Have you ever looked at a statsheet and wondered which players are the most valuable? Have you ever wondered how VALORANT stats and CS:GO stats compare? Here I apply the most popular CS:GO rating formula to VALORANT to see it’s strengths and weaknesses when applied to a different game.

I just wrote an article on medium approximating HLTV's CS:GO 2.0 rating in VALORANT.

I didn't write it here in the basic forums since pictures aren't an option, so check out that article if you want to read in more detail and see the more readable pictures.

Also I posted this on twitter so please retweet and share to get the article as much exposure as possible.

Thanks!

Here are the final ratings that I produced:

Sacy    1.39
aspas   1.36
MaKo    1.34
f0rsak  1.32
ScreaM  1.31
yay     1.30
Sayap   1.26
SugarZ  1.26
Jamppi  1.22
Jinggg  1.21
Fearoth 1.20
hoody   1.20
Laz     1.19
xand    1.17
stax    1.17
sScary  1.16
Marved  1.16
Victor  1.15
Nivera  1.14
Zest    1.14
BuZz    1.13
Mixwell 1.13
Benkai  1.09
TENNN   1.08
Less    1.08
soulcas 1.06
cauan   1.06
Surf    1.06
crashi  1.06
pancada 1.05
H1ber   1.05
L1NK    1.05
JonahP  1.05
Dep     1.04
Mistic  1.04
Sushi   1.03
nukkye  1.03
keznit  1.02
valyn   1.02
mindfr  1.00
NagZ    0.99
foxz    0.98
bezn1   0.98
Klaus   0.97
d4v41   0.96
neT     0.96
delz1k  0.95
Rb      0.94
crow    0.94
bnj     0.92
FNS     0.91
Jonn    0.90
MAGNUM  0.90
trent   0.88
Mazino  0.86
AvovA   0.85
Crws    0.85
Meddo   0.81
saadhak 0.81
Boaster 0.65

Check out the article if you want to learn about the limitations of applying the formula. The average rating was 1.063 which is slightly higher than 1.

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Seems accurate

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cNed zula god 😁👍💪

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Nice post...

GIGA ULTRA MEGA POWER UNSTOPPABLE MASSIVE W

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<3

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fns being sub 1 seem accurate lmao

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Boaster kekw

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Boaster supremacy

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Never thought trent would have .88 rating

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FerahgoTheGreat

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He really struggled for the Guard. I hope they don't lose confidence because of this performance.

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Not listening to music nerfed him significantly with his mental

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Good post
Valorant needs stuff like this. ACS isn’t the greatest representation imo and not the easiest to understand if you just glance at it.

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I always wondered why VLR doesn't use HLTV's rating? Even thespike uses a similar rating system. It gives a much more accurate statistic than ACS.

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it’s very flawed it rewards kast and kd instead of impact kpr and adr so instead of measuring how much of a star of a player is it rewards supporting and baiting. I’ve never heard any cs fan call it a good system

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Yeah, it has been criticized for being too similar to a K/D rating, but I would disagree that it doesn't factor KPR or ADR. The five primary factors in the rating are KPR, ADR, KAST, deaths per round, and HTLV's own Impact stat. Impact for HLTV is combines first kill, first death, multikill, and clutch stats, but the rating is still criticized for lacking nuance for actually rating a player's value to a game.
Unless you use something like runitback's Impact stat which uses machine learning to determine which kills actually changed the round, factoring out baiting is hard. ACS just rewards rushing at the enemy.

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its still a flawed metric, and it rewards players like baitf

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It's still better than ACS.

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I am not really sure how to reduce the power of baiting in a rating like this. The best way I can think of is in something like RIB's impact rating with machine learning, but that takes so much more data (like the time left in the round, or if the spike is planted when the kills happen). I think this HLTV style of rating is fairly reasonable if you have to limit yourself to just the stats on the statpage.

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congrats man nice work

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Saadhak and boaster lmfaoo

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That's so good man ! I wish Riot try to make something like that for Valorant or even VLR. The Only problem is that some IGL's dont get their true value that they deserve, like Saadhack.

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It's pretty much impossible to establish the value an IGL really has without listening to the literal voice coms.

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Riot really like control over their product, so I wouldn't be surprised to see a different rating system come out. It would take enough community pressure to convince them to abandon ACS instead of just modifying it.

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Actually accurate and pretty cool

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W post

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Obviously the goats at top 2 sheesh

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So excited for more LOUD games.

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Sacy keeps winning

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Sacy for ballon d'or

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Holy
What a great article

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Thanks!

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Boaster with that karrigan statline

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Common Ferahgo W

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Smart man

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the top 5 sheeesh

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Good work, I expected it to be a troll post based on title