This has been annoying me since the release of CS2…
The graph goes by "most recent wins", which essentially just means "most recently played". This means if you haven't played a certain map within your last X amount of games, it shows as zero. As I'm sure a lot of you notice, most premier lobbies blindly ban maps based on what the chart says. This inevitably creates a cycle of people only picking maps that they played recently, which usually turns out being the same maps over and over again.
I just looked at my game history, and as a solo queue who usually doesn't even participate in the map voting at all, the last time I played Nuke on Premier was 27 games ago, and the last time I've played Ancient was 33 games ago. That is actually absurd.
Most of the time when I point out the fact that this chart means literally nothing regarding win rate, people get surprised. Whether it be changing the statistic to something that isn't based on a # of games played, or removing the chart entirely – I honestly think that it's doing way more harm than good, and is a huge reason for why premier has become a cycle of a few maps.
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Also, friendly reminder voting against most recent wins for the other team is a waste of time if they are not a five stack. I see so many people do this to solo queues and it drives me insane.