Boosting: Rank and skill deception in esports

Conroy, Eoin; Kowal, Magdalena; Toth, Adam J.; Campbell, Mark J.

doi:10.1016/j.entcom.2020.100393

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“…In total, there are eight respondents that have filled in the form. These respondents are considered experts as League of Legends has a ranking-based system to distinguish players at different levels, and the respondents selected are not from the lower ranked (Conroy et al, 2020) levels. For respondent 3, both Jungle and Mid has consistency ratio of 0%.…”

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Weighting the Position & Skillset of Players in League of Legends Using Analytic Hierarchy Process

Wan

Kamal

Rahman³

2021

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Today, esports such as League of Legends are a popular form of competition using video games. Many researchers have conducted studies in the esports field such as player psychology, training, and physical exercise; however, those that apply quantitative techniques are still scarce. In this paper, Analytic Hierarchy Process is proposed for weighting position and skillsets of players in League of Legends. It is hypothesized by the developer that pairwise comparison can be used to derive priority scale through the judgment of experts. A questionnaire is designed to obtain pairwise comparison from players which are then used to develop the priority scale. The empirical results obtained show the weightage of position and skillset of each player. This weightage shows the priorities of certain position compared to other positions, and the priorities of skillsets needed to perform well in each position, based on their judgment. The results can be used to determine the most suitable players for each position with the right skillset quantitatively and systematically.

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Weighting the Position & Skillset of Players in League of Legends Using Analytic Hierarchy Process

Wan

Kamal

Rahman³

2021

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“…Especially for game boosters, economic opportunities lead to adverse choices in supporting young people embedded by their moral hazards to achieve income growth. On the other hand, young people with a high level of knowledge about ICT and social networks act shirking choosing high-income generating [8,10,27] can find work as a game booster. Moreover, the choice of undertaking this type of work means that young people do not want to pursue a lengthy professional career [11,13,37,52].…”

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“…Simultaneously, it considers mobile social networks that are efficient and trustworthy in explaining behavioural game boosters and increasing expert-level users. This research firstly posits Conroy et al [8]; Liu et al [29]; Manganelli and Nicita [20]; Yen and Hung [32] by describing the supply-side and demand-side of game boosters because of spontaneous equilibrium in the gaming market. Then, from these sides, new entrepreneurial businesses emerge for young people to serve the deviated economic reality [11,[33][34][35].…”

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“…First, this study uses moral hazard contextualising people's free choice to do something or not, anchoring to their possessed ethical standards. Nevertheless, a person's moral hazard can detriment others due to catching abnormal benefits with controlled risks [8][9][10]. Second, the authors use economic opportunities to explain a specific condition where people place their chances to do various transactional businesses.…”

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“…This research indicates that being a game booster is a new profession, promising higher incomes than usual. Then, the authors consider this recent phenomenon as socioeconomic stratification [8,17,18]. This phenomenon appears in the social cognition of young people looking for a livelihood due to liberalised mobile networks [19][20][21].…”

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Boosting: Rank and skill deception in esports

Cited by 27 publications

References 17 publications

Weighting the Position & Skillset of Players in League of Legends Using Analytic Hierarchy Process

Weighting the Position & Skillset of Players in League of Legends Using Analytic Hierarchy Process

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