{"id":916,"date":"2015-11-08T13:38:40","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T21:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/?p=916"},"modified":"2015-11-08T13:38:59","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T21:38:59","slug":"a-farewell-to-hots-a-graph-of-how-game-lengths-didnt-change-over-2-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/?p=916","title":{"rendered":"A Farewell to HotS: a graph of how game lengths didn&#8217;t change over 2 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(See the reddit thread for the same content\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/starcraft\/comments\/3s1w7b\/a_farewell_to_hots_a_graph_of_how_game_lengths\/\">https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/starcraft\/comments\/3s1w7b\/a_farewell_to_hots_a_graph_of_how_game_lengths\/<\/a> )<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-917\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/image.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"600\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/image.png 600w, http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/image-300x186.png 300w, http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/image-485x300.png 485w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I usually try to post interesting things from Spawning Tool data, but here&#8217;s a very boring result from some analysis I did. Using the ~15,000 professional HotS replays in Spawning Tool, I bucketed them by month and then calculated the average game length. I was thinking that maybe game lengths would have increased as players got better and didn&#8217;t lose as much early. As you can see that didn&#8217;t happen as game lengths remained roughly the same (about 16 minutes)<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t dig too much further because I didn&#8217;t really see any trends. You can see the data I used to generate the graph at<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imgScanned\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1TZmOGUuky1GETmY-ugEloOjriUL7V9_ctlkH5C3ELyQ\/edit#gid=438977023\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1TZmOGUuky1GETmY-ugEloOjriUL7V9_ctlkH5C3ELyQ\/edit#gid=438977023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyways, enough of that. We&#8217;re looking towards the future here, so check out our <a class=\"imgScanned\" href=\"http:\/\/lotv.spawningtool.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">LotV site<\/a><span class=\"keyNavAnnotation\" title=\"press 2 to open link\">\u00a0<\/span>for new stats and <a class=\"imgScanned\" href=\"http:\/\/lotv.spawningtool.com\/build\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">build orders<\/a><span class=\"keyNavAnnotation\" title=\"press 3 to open link\">\u00a0<\/span>going forward!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(See the reddit thread for the same content\u00a0https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/starcraft\/comments\/3s1w7b\/a_farewell_to_hots_a_graph_of_how_game_lengths\/ ) I usually try to post interesting things from Spawning Tool data, but here&#8217;s a very boring result from some analysis I did. Using the ~15,000 professional HotS replays in Spawning Tool, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/?p=916\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":919,"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions\/919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}