Beowulf said:
Free Loader said:
The overall tier list is nothing but a bunch of fight results from some site no one who's anyone cares about anyway, so what's the difference?
Except the people who make these tier lists are basically uber-nerds. They don't just base things on their personal opinions. They base it on EVERYTHING.
It's impossible for them to base the tiers on "everything". They base it on a
majority. If they were to base it on everything, the tiers would be split into 4 separate versions:
Preferred (majority)
*SS
*S
*A
*B
*C
*D
*E
*F
*G
Preferred (minority)
*SS
*S
*A
*B
*C
*D
*E
*F
*G
Characters with the most wins (in tournaments)
Depending on the amount of games played in tournaments, which characters were used, how often they were used, and how often they won in comparison to the ones that were chosen less often, you would get a tier with the approximately-calculated ratio of "best to worst" characters in the game.
Characters that fell victim to KOs (in tournaments)
Same as above, only replace the "positive" words with their "negative" reciprocals.
The only way that they could get the odds of the average home-bound Joe, is if they were to go to some random suburb and survey 100 Brawl-players. Even so, they would still be calculating the odds, so they could never calculate "everything" exactly the way it should be. And rather than breaking things down to the simple 4-trial tier calculations, they slapped them all together very poorly and based everything on extremely roughly calculated odds, rather than ones that could be more neatly organized and properly accounted for.