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Will We Win This Overwatch Match?

From the season, map, role, characters and both teams' skill ratings before the match, will this game be won? Players want to know which picks and maps suit them.

Use caseMedia and gamesPredictionModel evaluation

The table

3,266 competitive matches logged by one player over seven seasons, with map, role, characters and team ratings, and the result. It's in Welt's research catalogue as Overwatch Competitive Matches (Seven Seasons), 3,266 rows by 47 columns, licensed CC0: Public Domain. The catalogue measures its signal at 0.67. At 3,266 rows and 46 features the table is larger than the model limits allow, so the walkthrough evaluates and fits on a seeded sample of 2,000 rows. TabICLv2 and Kumo Tabular Medium compete.

Walkthrough

  1. Load it from the catalogue

    Find the table, read its recorded target and print the column names.

    import pandas as pd
    from welt import Client
    
    with Client() as client:
        item = client.research_datasets(q="Overwatch competitive matches", limit=1)["items"][0]
        info = client.research_dataset(item["id"])
        data = client.load_research_dataset(item["id"])
    
    target = info["targets"][0]
    target = target["name"] if isinstance(target, dict) else target
    print([column["name"] for column in info["schema"]], target)
  2. Pick the rows

    Set aside 20 rows to predict at the end. The models learn from a seeded sample of 2,000 of the rest, the most this table's width allows.

    known = data.dropna(subset=[target])
    new_rows = known.sample(20, random_state=1)
    table = known.drop(new_rows.index).sample(2000, random_state=7)
  3. Compare the models and predict

    The models compete on the same folds against a simple guess, then the top-ranked one is fitted on the whole table. ROC AUC runs from 0.5, a coin toss, to 1, a perfect ranking, and a lower Brier score means the probabilities can be trusted more. The last table puts each prediction next to the real answer.

    with Client() as client:
        evaluation = client.evaluate(table, target, task="classification", seed=7,
                                     models=["tabicl-v2", "kumo-medium"])
        model = evaluation.fit()
    
    print(evaluation.summary()[["name", "rank", "roc_auc_mean", "brier_mean"]])
    features = new_rows.drop(columns=target)
    print(pd.DataFrame({"actual": new_rows[target].values, "predicted": model.predict(features),
                        "probability": model.predict_proba(features).max(axis=1)}))

What you get

A win probabilityBefore the match starts.
Best maps and picksCompare predictions across choices.
A clear signalThe catalogue measures a good signal.

Try it

Use Open with to run the research datasets notebook in Colab, Kaggle or Jupyter and search for "Overwatch competitive matches", or run the code above after pip install "welt-client[parquet]".