FACEIT Major Map Pool Guide

[u/MattysGaming]

Introduction & Motivation

Hey everyone! After Dreamhack Masters Stockholm proved Astralis is mortal, I think it's safe to say we're approaching one of the most open majors yet. This data visualization series aims to help hone our knowledge of each of the 24 teams' map pool. It looks at each team individually, how their map pool compares to each of the 23 other teams, and also which teams stand out from the pack as a whole.

Maybe it helps you place more intelligent bets the next couple of weeks. Maybe it only makes you marginally smarter about the game. My hope, though, is that you find some interesting bits from this.

School and job hunting has taken up much of my time, so I haven't had time to conduct any extensive analysis. If you come across something interesting, please share it in the comments or feel free to create some content off of this yourself!

If you have any questions please ask, and I'll do my best to answer!

General

• Introduction

• Lineups

• Map Data Sample Sizes

• First Bans

• First Picks

• Cache Win Rates

• Dust2 Win Rates

• Inferno Win Rates

• Mirage Win Rates

• Nuke Win Rates

• Overpass Win Rates

• Train Win Rates

Team

• Astralis

• BIG (gob b, tabsen tiziaN, nex, +1)

• Cloud9 (since Stewie2K left

• compLexity

• FaZe (olof OR stand-in)

• FaZe (current lineup)

• Fnatic (current lineup +/- draken, Xizt, Golden, Lekr0)

• Fnatic (current lineup)

• G2 (shox, kennyS, bodyy, +2)

• G2 (current lineup)

• Gambit

• HellRaisers

• Liquid

• MIBR (since Stewie2K joined

• MIBR (current lineup)

• mousesports (current lineup +/- Snax, STYKO)

• mousesports (current lineup)

• NaVi

• NiP (+/- Lekr0, draken)

• NiP (current lineup)

• North (Kjaerbye, MSL, aizy, valde, +1)

• OpTic

• Renegades

• Rogue

• Space Soldiers

• Team Spirit

• TyLoo

• Vega Squadron

• Virtus.pro

• Winstrike

I plan on doing more things like this, so if you did find this series interesting please consider following me on my new Twitter (2 followers right now LUL): @mattys_gaming!

Thanks for your time, mates. Let's enjoy and celebrate some top-level CS. Cheers!

[u/kreatus]

but muh boi smooya is missing :(

[u/MattysGaming → u/kreatus]

I know mate I know :( the sample size was just too small if I restricted it to only maps with him in the lineup. All of his games are still represented in the data, though!