look at other stats like impact or adr for example, look at relevancy, individual awards and achievments. its not based only on overall ratings at all. no freaking way that s1mple can be 1st
Lan:
S1 1.35 impact 84.9 ADR
Z 1.38 impact 85.2 ADR
D 1.31 impact 82.2 ADR
Big events
S1 1.34 impact 83.9 ADR
Z 1.38 impact 86.1 ADR
D 1.33 impact 83.2 ADR
Majors
S1 1.16 impact 76.9 ADR
Z 1.26 impact 79.9 ADR
D 1.38 impact 83 ADR
still some events left so dont count out s1mple
Device -> much more MVP's, move EVP's, more event wins
Astralis -> higher rated on big events / majors than NaVi
S1 -> Leads stats (but has way less maps played than device what is crucial here)
the thing is...
individually speaking, the gap from simple in 2018 to the rest is larger than the gap from zywoo to the rest in 2019
BIG EVENTS 2018
1 - simple - 1.34
2 - niko - 1.25
3 - device - 1.24
BIG EVENTS 2019
1 - zywoo - 1.29
2 - device - 1.25
3 - elige - 1.21
I will be surprised if ZywOo even gets top 5. He has like 1 tournament win (tier 2) and 2 mvps in total. That's not enough for top 5 even if he's got a good kd.
You didn't even look at his stats or results. He has 4 MVPs, 5 EVPs, 2 Tournament Wins, 2 2nd Place, and 2 Semi Finals. There's only 3 players that can come close to having an argument to being ranked higher than him.
Not to look like an advertiser but a user called "EnisLover" Has made a post about this where he goes into depth alot if you want accurate Top 20 list.
zywoo kills flashed opponents 50% of the time lmfao cus his teams so shit all they do is flash for him. no shit he’s gonna have inflated stats
device for sure will be top 1
ZywOo won't be 4 sure since he have 1 tournament left this year. If Astralis wins Pro League - device
If NaVi wins Pro League and EPICENTER - s1mple
Device, s1mple and ZywOo are so close to each other, but ZywOo is out since he won't win EPICENTER 4sure cuz Vitality sucks.
Now it's between devve and s1mple
ZywOo's probably better in terms of raw skill, but I think this year is Device's year
He won both majors and has one of the best ratings at every tournaments, whereas Vitality didn't win enough tournaments like Navi did in 2018
You all are sleeping on Elige.
Big ifs all around but if he frags out and wins another tournament and MVP he could in theory anyway be number one.
But that's probably like 5 to 1 at this point. Device is the winner in my book today. Most complete player in the game. Swept both majors. You all know his accomplishments by now.