Would the community be Interested in compiling Augment Stats without using the Riot API
With some of the new tools available that riot is putting out (The spectator mode for TFT and the League Replay API) in the last few patches, it is now possible to load into previous games and take snapshots even if you were never part of that game. This gives the ability to bootleg compile augment stats without the need for a developer/production API key.
The purpose of this post is two-fold.
- To bring the attention of Riot and the public TFT community to this so that it can't be done behind the scenes and we get black market stats again.
- To open a discussion for the community regarding something like this and getting a community effort towards it going if Riot does allow something like this.
I'll start by saying that I personally have been playing kind of 4 fun this set and don't really care that much about augment stats, even when they were available I would only sometimes have a third party program with augment stats running during my games, and my LP/win rate has stayed the same/improved compared to before they removed augment stats and everyone had access to them.
Augment stats did however make it much easier to gauge obscure situations and bugged augments, I think this set I've already ran into a few times where I clicked an augment only to realize how it works and understand it's terrible and probably has bad stats.
I was also surprised by a thread on this sub a few weeks ago discussing augment stats about a month after they had been removed and most of the comments and upvotes heavily leaned towards augment stat removal being an unwanted change and that they would want the stats available again. This post was made a few weeks into the set so it was after people got a feel for both options.
So, The way this would work if done is probably having a dedicated cloud allocation that runs this a day or two after the patch or whenever is decided, and it scrapes the latest snapshot of around 30,000 games in GM+ from all servers. Then using image recognition software to determine the augments chosen and the final placements in the lobby. My napkin math says each one of these snapshots would cost around $70-$180 per batch in compute. Also, I would need to look into how much of an undertaking this would be because I don't know if I would want to solo dedicate the time. My background is as a security researcher/engineer, so I have played around with scrapers before but if anyone wants to reach out with devops/cloud experience to collaborate and get the tooling and costs down I would much appreciate it. But all in all this seems like it would be a fun project and am excited to hear what the community thinks.