What's the Best League of Legends Draft AI?
We tested Winrate, iTero, and LoLDraftAI on 20,000 real ranked drafts. Winrate had the highest realized win rate in every Top-K bucket.
Apr 28, 2026
Articles
Long-form writing on methodology, decisions, and how things work under the hood.
How the Draft Model Works
How Winrate recommends champion picks during draft, and why incomplete information is the hard part.
Mar 11, 2026
Building an Item Recommender When Winning Explains Almost Nothing
Why predicting wins from item purchases doesn't work, what we tried, and how pairwise ranking solved it.
Feb 27, 2026
Stop Interpreting Predictive Models as Causal: How We Built Player Insights
Why SHAP values and feature importance can mislead when you want to decide what to change. How we use Double ML to separate correlation from causation in player insights.
Feb 18, 2026
What 'Similar Champions' Means in Winrate
A plain-language explanation of what "similar" means, how it's measured, and how we test if it works.
Feb 16, 2026
Measuring What Matters: From Stats to Win Probability
How I rebuilt my performance scoring system after discovering it was rewarding losers and punishing winners.
Feb 4, 2026