Starcraft – Patch 1.5.0 Arcade and new ‘Total Career Games’ statistic – what exactly does it count

I think the best way to imagine it is to imagine your total effectiveness as combination of the two attributes - you call them Speed and Brain. I think your total effectiveness is best modeled as Speed times Brain. Increasing either one is useful, but increasing only one is not as helpful as increasing both.

If you have a 10 for Brain but a 1 for Speed (IE you know exactly what your opponent is thinking, but you can barely use a mouse), your total score is 10. If you are as dumb as a pile of bricks (Brain 1) but have great mouse skills (Speed 10), you might also have a score of 10. but a guy with moderate brains and fingers might have a score of 5 times 5 or 25, which would beat both of the extremely lopsided guys.

Finally, note that if you watch a lot of vids and up your Brain score by 4 points to 9, you're a 9 times 5 or 45. If you instead watched some vids and practice some "Speed", you're now 7 times 7, or 49. In other words, try to balance out both strategy and execution.

The best way to get statistics on your games is a program called sc2gears. It analyzes your replays and gives lots of data. To get this info, do a multi-replay-analysis on all of your replays, double-click your player name to do analysis on just you, and look at "Match-up Records".

That screen is a bit confusing though. It shows all the possible ways to express your match-ups. Your race is the first one (e.g. PvZ means you played Protoss, ZvP means you played Zerg). * means any, so *vP means your total stats against Protoss and Pv* means your total stats playing as Protoss. There is no consideration for "random".

Sounds like then you would be interested in the Pv*, Zv*, and Tv* rows.

[update]

sc2gears now supports a google-hosted database of all of your replays. This is basically the direct response to battle.net not showing win/loss data anymore.