The Network
Two players are linked if they've played the same map on the same team. Do that for every map since 2021 and almost everyone lands in one giant web of 1,139 players and 4,683 teammate pairs. This page ranks who sits closest to the middle of it, and traces the chain between any two players.
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How the network is built
Two players are linked if they played the same map on the same team. Sharing an org isn't enough: two players at the same team five years apart never actually played together, and counting them as linked would reward passing through a storied roster.
- Hops. The average number of links from a player to everyone else in the network, which is the Bacon number idea averaged rather than measured to one target. The scene averages 5.24; Demon1 is the lowest at 3.60.
- Breadth beats volume. The players with the most teammates are rarely the most central, because a long career in one region builds a big but tightly packed circle. One stint abroad is worth more than years of new faces at home.
- Max. The distance to the single furthest player. It sounds like the better measure but it can't rank anyone: across 1,139 players it takes only six values, so most of the table ties. It's also decided entirely by whoever is most remote, so one obscure roster can move it. The ranking uses the average, which is measured against everyone and so can't be swung by one straggler.
- Wtd. The same calculation with links weighted by how many series a pair played together, so a four-year duo counts as closer than two players who shared one map. It barely changes the order, which is the point: the ranking doesn't depend on picking a weighting.
- Eras. The '23+ view is a separate graph, not a filter: dropping a player's later teams changes everyone's distances, not just theirs. 2023 is the split because franchising stitched the scene together in one offseason. There is no 2021-22 view because that graph barely holds together: its largest group contains only 26% of the era's players, so "closest to everyone" would mean closest to a quarter of them. In the '23+ window it's 94%.
- Who's missing. 87 players sit outside the main web, in 15 small islands. Each is a single roster whose players never appear anywhere else, mostly one-off entries from the 2021 open qualifiers and the 2023 China qualifier. They have no path to anyone here, so they're left out of the ranking.