Yeah, so completely useless is a bit hyperbolic on my part for sure, I apologize.
If I use CTRL-R to bring it up, and then click on career stats, you get more data than we had before, which is cool. I didn’t realize I could click and interact with it, as the 2.0 version if you got the full app popup, only hotkeys worked for me, not the mouse. Based on that, I think the Scoreboard predictions are pretty cool, but the Career Stats is what I’m more interested in. I LOVE the “peak” indicator, but if I read it right, that is the peak of the current playlist + season? It would be cool to see the Lifetime peak (across all modes?) as well, then maybe I don’t need to switch between playlists as much.
That said, generally I look at 2s rank as a baseline when I’m playing anything but 2s. Then if I’m playing a casual match, and I see a Champ 2 with his two Gold buddies, everything makes sense :). Seeing the casual rank doesn’t mean much, because a lot of those folks only play casual with their friends like this. And generally speaking, the current rank should be close for everyone, if matchmaking is doing its job. Then when I’m in 2s, I’ll look at 1s or 3s rank usually, though in that playlist, there’s a higher chance of seeing a large disparity from teamed up friends.
The trick with the hotkeys, is I’m usually trying to get this info in the scant few seconds before the match starts, or if I see some crazy nonsense, I will look during the goal replay, heh. Hotkeys are life here.
I actually think the default pregame ranks look nice at the top of the screen, I’m just not interested in the current rank usually. And I completely agree with the previous feedback that the large block on the side of the screen can be annoying, I can’t count the number of times my buddy though it was his ball because he didn’t see me to his left, heh.
