Here are my power ratings and predictions for League of Legends Worlds 2020 Day 5. I used to run a website dedicated to finding edges in the League of Legends betting markets.

Initial model power ratings were generated by looking at a team’s region, their performance (average margin of victory in terms of gold) in that region, and the performance that region’s as a whole has delivered in the last two years worth of international performance. My initial rating regression model predicts team strength with an R² of .78. While G2 may be the crowd favorite here, teams from the LPL have performed admirably at the marquee international LANs in the last two…