A Random Forest approach to identify metrics that best predict match outcome and player ranking in the esport Rocket League.

ABSTRACT: Notational analysis is a popular tool for understanding what constitutes optimal performance in traditional sports. However, this approach has been seldom used in esports. The popular esport "Rocket League" is an ideal candidate for notational analysis due to the availability of an online repository containing data from millions of matches. The purpose of this study was to use Random Forest models to identify in-match metrics that predicted match outcome (performance indicators or "PIs") and/or in-game player rank (rank indicators or "RIs"). We evaluated match data from 21,588 Rocket League matches involving players from four different ranks. Upon identifying goal difference (GD) as a suitable outcome measure for Rocket League match performance, Random Forest models were used alongside acc

SUBMITTER: Smithies TD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8481284 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature