Team Liquid uses SAP Business AI to optimize esports draft strategy
Team LiquidSAP AI Core · SAP HANA Cloud · SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP)
Esports organization Team Liquid worked with SAP to build an AI draft bot using SAP AI Core to train a generative AI model on data from more than 6,000 professional League of Legends matches and 1.6 million amateur matches, stored in SAP HANA Cloud and running on SAP Business Technology Platform. The tool visualizes win-probability predictions after each pick and ban during the champion draft process, replacing manual analysis and saving Team Liquid approximately 10,000 hours per year.
Overview
Esports organization Team Liquid worked with SAP to build an AI draft bot using SAP AI Core to train a generative AI model on data from more than 6,000 professional League of Legends matches and 1.6 million amateur matches, stored in SAP HANA Cloud and running on SAP Business Technology Platform. The tool visualizes win-probability predictions after each pick and ban during the champion draft process, replacing manual analysis and saving Team Liquid approximately 10,000 hours per year.
The challenge
Previously, Team Liquid coaches prepared draft scenarios based on manual analysis of the opponent team's draft behaviors and champion preferences, but manual analysis is done before the draft while the best potential pick or ban changes based on the decisions of the other team. The sheer number of potential matches to choose from and the different strategies employed by opponent teams make manual draft prediction very difficult, and esports teams have only a week to prepare for a game.
The solution
Team Liquid worked with SAP to build an AI draft bot using SAP AI Core to train a generative AI model on data from more than 6,000 professional League of Legends matches and 1.6 million amateur matches (1.6 terabytes of game data), stored in SAP HANA Cloud and running on SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP). The application visualizes win-probability predictions and gives Team Liquid the current winning probability after each pick and ban during the draft process, letting coaches and players run what-if analyses and simulate new strategies.
Reported business value
The AI draft bot lets Team Liquid train for draft situations against any professional team in a matter of seconds and saves the team approximately 10,000 hours per year compared to previous manual analysis.
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