Category: Inside MLE

by Achilles

New FM Introductions

New FM Introductions

By BoogerBear

 

Oceans rise, empires fall, and once again MLE brings in new faces to the top of franchise management. This season, Blizzard, Pandas, Pirates, and Sharks find themselves with a new top dog in town. I took the time to reach out to each of our new FMs. Here’s what they had to say about their promotions.

New FM – cordiaL

 

Having been a member of Blizzard myself for the past 2 seasons, I had a small snippet of a sneak peak into cordiaL’s approach to the coming season for Blizzard (sorry, no spoilers from me). Nonetheless, cordiaL is quite excited to be stepping into this new role.

 

Booger: “What made you want to be a Franchise Manager?”

cordiaL: “I have had experience building a community before and I was excited to do it

again here in MLE.”

 

cordiaL’s interview did not consist of many words, but they appear to have a clear and concise goal for the future of Blizzard. When asked about the type of community cordiaL is looking to build, the response was short, sweet, and to the point: “A really good one (hopefully).”

 

As always, the people want to know if the new fearless leader will be making an appearance on the pitch for MLE Season 17. cordiaL says there is “a non-zero chance. Stay tuned.”

New FM – Taelo
A true MLE journeyperson finds their way to the top of their THIRD franchise. Taelo was the FM of the Bulls in Seasons 10-11 and the Tyrants for Seasons 12-13. So… What drew them back to the spotlight? They missed it.

 

In Taelo’s words, “I missed being able to create a community and do the work in picking players for both character and talent to represent a franchise. I took a few seasons off to experience different franchises and players, but am glad to have landed at the Pandas.”

 

Taelo also has some goals for the Pandas community that will be growing under them. Those goals include building competitive teams, fostering strong bonds among teams, and creating a welcoming environment.

So… Will we see Taelo on the pitch in Season 17? They say, “Most likely, but not certain.”

New FM – Ol Dirty Dirty

 

Recently spotted as AGM of Eclipse, Ol Dirty Dirty has been promoted to FM of the Pirates. They are excited to be at the helm of the ship and ready to build a franchise to compete and grow as players. Ol Dirty Dirty wanted to be a franchise manager because they “Love coaching and competing.” Becoming a Franchise Manager would allow them to build a community focused on encouraging growth while competing.

 

The kind of community the Pirates are going to be shifting toward is a community based around fun, engagement, encouragement, and accountability. Ol Dirty Dirty wants the Pirates to be a place people want to go so people can both enjoy their time on the franchise and improve on the pitch.

 

So… Will we see Ol Dirty Dirty on the pitch? They plan on being out there, but they said, “whether I hit the ball or not while I’m out there is a different story.”

New FM – Kkube

A longtime Shark received news that they would be taking the reins of the franchise for the upcoming season. Kkube is entering their 9th season of MLE. All of the previous eight seasons have been spent in the Shark Tank. What called him to become the next apex predator? Adi. (ping in general)

 

Kkube jumped on the chance to lead the Sharks upon the news of Adi stepping down. They wanted to fill Adi’s shoes.

 

They seem to be keen on keeping what the Sharks had going on. Kkube wants folks to enjoy their time in the Shark Tank. The Sharks want to feel like a family, “where you can go to compete, to laugh, and to have fun with your friends.”

 

So… Will we see Kkube on the pitch in Season 17? “Yes! Hitting crossbars and backflipping my way through CL.”

And there it is! All four of the new FMs for the upcoming MLE season gave us a taste of what’s to come now they each have control of their franchise’s destinies. Stay tuned for the latest as we get ready for the draft coming up on April 27-28!

 

by Chopkins

INSIDE MLE: Project Website 2.0

With every season there are more changes to MLE as more players come in, the league expands, and departments improve on the structure and features of the league. This off-season perhaps no team has worked harder and put in more hours than the development team.

If you are currently in the league you have already benefited from their work so far this season. The scrim bot was a large undertaking that proved to be necessary when mmr became difficult to track due to the introduction of Epic IDs and RLTracker’s inability to track these accounts in the fall. So the dev team went to work on building out a new system to help determine where players should be placed within each league. The scrim bot project was started in October of last year and beta tested during the preseason. Even though the bot is now released to the league, the team will continue to monitor and update the bot as needed throughout the season.

Their next project now involves taking that data and putting it out to the public via the website. But with the old model of this site (built using WordPress) the main way to put stats and results on the site was through manually copying over the data. So they needed to find a faster and more efficient way to get results from replays to the web. To help explain their decision I’ll let developer Stevo take it away from here.

“Our development team has been working diligently to make the MLE experience something you’ve never experienced before.

If you’re not familiar with Emilio and Emilia, they are our two MLE bots that handle everything from scrims to replay submissions. In the past, we had to manually import match data from the replay bot into the website. This would cause a delay of up to almost a week before players could see the match data. In addition to that, sometimes the website data was not matching the bot data.

How could this be better? Well, having the data come from one source. The website is going to take a hybrid approach with season 12. What does that mean? You will be able to find data for seasons 8-11 on the website at https://mlesports.gg/. However, season 12 will be externally linked to from the website.

Please pardon the “dust” while we work out the best solution and experience for you this season.” -Stevo

While the team continues to build the new website you will still be able to find all the season 12 stats and results you are looking for. The system used for tracking scrim stats will now also be used to host match stats this season. Both the team and the community have responded positively to the change to this new system of stats because of how quickly things can be put into the database. Developer SovietShark in particular is ecstatic with the potential for the new tool. “Metabase is an excellent tool, that lets both dev and stats quickly and easily create good looking visualizations that are effectively live with data in the database.”

The developer team is composed of approximately 15 members. The team seems to be working daily in the developer discord on various updates, fixes, and projects. Building something as intensive as a database for five leagues containing hundreds of players is no easy task. The new site will take time and the team is not yet ready to announce a release date for the site but judging by the progress that is being made we think it will be worth the wait.