{"id":114,"date":"2017-05-21T21:14:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T21:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/?p=114"},"modified":"2017-05-21T21:14:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T21:14:49","slug":"my-progress-during-season-3-of-rocket-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/gaming\/my-progress-during-season-3-of-rocket-league\/","title":{"rendered":"My progress during Season 3 of Rocket League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It should be readily evident from some of my <a href=\"http:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/gaming\/rocket-league-the-most-authentic-soccer-video-game-ever-made\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">other<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/gaming\/rocket-league-halloween-costumes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posts<\/a> that I love Rocket League. I started playing ranked matches during Rocket League&#8217;s Season 3 (which ran from June 2016 through March 2017), and towards\u00a0the end of August 2016 I started tracking my progress in a spreadsheet. I kept track of my skill ratings (similar to an Elo ranking) in the different playlists using a <a href=\"https:\/\/rocketleague.tracker.network\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stat tracking website<\/a>\u00a0and once a week I would run through each of the default all-star trainings five times as an alternative metric for mechanical skills.<\/p>\n<p>I had originally had very ambitious plans for what I would do with the stats I collected, but since it&#8217;s been two months since Season 3 ended I wanted to post something before the project lost all momentum. Perhaps I&#8217;ll revisit this in more detail later, but for now the project has culminated in a simple page posted <a href=\"http:\/\/laweinstein.com\/projects\/rlstats.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> which lets you explore different ratings\/rankings over time or number of games played.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few points I found interesting from exploring the data:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My unranked rating (rating from playing in casual playlists) stayed more or less constant over all of Season 3, even though I undoubtedly improved over that time period.<\/li>\n<li>Looking at a playlist rating vs. number of games played (e.g., Standard rating vs. Ranked standard games played) I hit a plateau in Duel and Solo standard, but not in Doubles or Standard. Perhaps through the latter half of Season 3, my teamwork improved more than other mechanical skills, which doesn&#8217;t show up as much in Duel or (unfortunately) in Solo standard.<\/li>\n<li>I plateaued fairly quickly in Keeper and Striker training, while I continuously improved in Aerial training. Keeper plateaued because I quickly approached 100% completion, whereas Striker seemed to always hover around 70%. I&#8217;m not sure why I&#8217;m not better at Striker even after spending so much time on it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It should be readily evident from some of my other posts that I love Rocket League. I started playing ranked matches during Rocket League&#8217;s Season 3 (which ran from June 2016 through March 2017), and towards\u00a0the end of August 2016 I started tracking my progress in a spreadsheet. I kept track of my skill ratings &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/gaming\/my-progress-during-season-3-of-rocket-league\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My progress during Season 3 of Rocket League&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}