Chapter 74: No one will give up a better future

On the other side of the wall, An Wenxin is watching a python crawler tutorial.

Although she knew that Jiao Yang probably just mentioned it casually before, she found a good idea.

How to enter the esports industry in a justified way? —Internship.

Since she had already obtained the internship unit's stamp from Aqing, why not make the fake real and try to truly integrate into VG.

Normally, although her major is also CS, it has nothing to do with electronic sports.

But data analysts happen to need this knowledge!

Whether it is data cleaning, data analysis, or building models, it is inseparable from computer science.

Unlike other games, the data acquisition of Valve games only requires simple calls to API. With a programming foundation, you only need to learn some simple instructions.

The difficult part is subsequent analysis and modeling, which to a certain extent requires an understanding of the game.

Just like the program she wrote now, she applied to get the data of ten CS matches under her steamid, including kills, assists, damage, utility usage, etc. per round.

But what's the use?

If it's just calculating some basic data, evaluating performance per round, generating heat maps, these already have many websites, and even the platform's APP can already do it.

The problem lies in what can be done with this information? This involves the analysis aspect.

Compared to Jiao Yang who is still abandoning, An Wenxin's sixth-level English is at least no problem in normal application.

In the case of very little data analysis information in the esports industry, she first thought of looking for inspiration from traditional sports.

After searching for sports competition + data analysis application, the first-ranked one turned out to be a machine learning-related paper, and the introduction mentioned a classic case—Moneyball Theory:

Under the leadership of team manager Billy Beane, the Oakland Athletics recruited a batch of low-value players based on data analysis, but became the team with the most victories in Major League Baseball (MLB) in 2002.

This reveals the huge value of data analysis in evaluating players.

Afterwards, the paper mentioned why sports events still need data analysts when there are coaches:

First, the coach's energy is limited. Under the situation of leading the team, there may not be sufficient review time, especially the latest matches of the opponent are generally the most valuable. Only having a coach may miss research opportunities.

Secondly, people will have a certain degree of cognitive bias. People always pay attention to those wonderful or bad performances and ignore behaviors in a general state. Data can help coaches correct empiricism to a certain extent.

After reading the article, An Wenxin had some ideas. Based on her understanding of CNCS, talent reserves are seriously insufficient, and a reasonable youth training system is missing. Perhaps in this regard, data analysis can better evaluate the ability of youth training players.

It's just that this method may still need experience to assist. Assuming a kind of evaluation system is built, like rating, the value it reflects in the team may not be the higher the better.

Some players play the position of star rifleman, some players are entry fraggers, rating is often higher for the former, but the contribution of the latter to opening the battle situation may not be lower than the former.

Wanting to create a reasonable evaluation standard, especially when it is to be used in selection scenes like youth training, still needs constant adjustment. After all, no one will know a player's potential at a glance.

Perhaps by then she needs to learn some basic analysis methods from the coach...

This idea flashed in her mind, An Wenxin suddenly thought: Before Jiao Yang came, VG didn't have a coach!

It's hard to imagine how Advent organized the information while playing matches before...

……

Sydney time, 23:31, it should be the time to adjust the jet lag.

Advent is watching the opponent's demo alone in the training room, writing and drawing on a small notebook.

IEM Sydney is a large S-tier tournament. Top strong teams from all over the world gather here. They also live in top hotels with complete supporting facilities. Each team has a small training room for simple pre-match training, which is no longer the same as the internet cafe matches ten years ago.

"Team Liang, really hard work, still watching the demo so late." Freeman swiped his card to enter the hotel's training room and saw Advent's figure without any surprise.

Advent ignored Freeman and focused on the demo of the first opponent, NRG.

They didn't know much about these foreign teams, plus they had been conducting various qualifiers continuously, so they had very little preparation for these IEM teams.

In order not to waste this opportunity to show their strength on the international stage, they could only seize the time and hold the Buddha's feet temporarily.

"Your coach, that guy named Jiao Yang?" Freeman asked knowingly.

Advent frowned: "Don't come to disturb me if there's nothing."

Freeman continued to sow discord: "Hey, Team Liang, you are so dedicated to VG, but the boss didn't even hire a coach, it's really unreasonable."

The coach here naturally refers not to Jiao Yang, but to the vacant position before they won the Major.

Freeman accepted Tyloo's offer, besides the price being high enough, he also had the idea of joining a regular club with a coach.

Every time they played a match in the past, other teams had coaches standing behind them, cheering and encouraging when the team lost, while VG was empty, and all the frustration could only be carried by the players themselves.

VG doesn't value the CS department, which can be seen from the club always using the Qiyou trio. A team can accept people who are not strong to take a pay cut and stay, which shows that the club has no intention of additional investment in this department.

If it weren't for him and Kaze, VG wouldn't have entered IEM Sydney, let alone break into the Major and get stickers.

Is Jiao Yang strong? Even Freeman, after watching the entire EPL qualifier with that exaggerated 1.71 rating, had to admit that Jiao Yang's sniper level was indeed okay when not targeted.

But he didn't think such a team could go far, for the same reason as the uploader on the video site said—no one will give up a better future.

He won't give up, Kaze won't, and that Jiao Yang won't either.

……

"Abandon, give up."

"Abandon, give up."

"Abandon, give up."

"Ok, learned it, give up."

Jiao Yang, in order to celebrate overcoming the most difficult step of English learning, directly rewarded himself with a game of CS.

Eh?

【FPL CSGO Western Europe server invites you to join】

【Current online members: 258】

【ACCEPT】

No, when was the invitation message sent?

"Damn, made me memorize English for ten more minutes!"

Jiao Yang directly uninstalled the word software.

Clicked the agree option, Mart1n officially became a member of FPL.

Before starting to match, Jiao Yang downloaded the English reporting map to his phone.

These game terms, learning from playing is the best way to learn.

Like Big Bang, Show Me The Money, Who's Your Daddy, Jiao Yang will never forget these in his life. ===== CHAPTER 75 =====