Sample size

Five series is a week, not a season. A team can go 4–1 because of one patch, one side of the bracket, or plain variance. The percentage looks sharp. The count tells you how little is behind it.

The track record on this preview is a shadow test in progress, with no record yet. A percentage still needs a count beside it. Five series is a short pile of results.

Last-five form pills are even shorter. They are useful as a glance at order — oldest on the left, newest on the right — and weak as a rating. W and L are printed inside the pills so the result is not carried by color alone.

GD@15 on the team table is the average gold difference at 15 minutes, and only on games where that column was filled in. Side win rates use the side tag on each game. Both are still small numbers when the game count is small. The methodology page says how they are built.

Past results do not guarantee future outcomes. The series list is a record of games already played, not a list of picks.