BMI to gaming skills relation?

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Nollihd07

Is there any kind of research that is done to scientifically determine at which digits of BMI does a professional player perform optimally?

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Nollihd07

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Too scientific for the dumbasses in this site.

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delighted

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there is none iirc

I'll try to see if there's anything that comes up for other esports

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😭😭😭🤣

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Nollihd07

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Maybe.
Like majority of the winning teams either have people that are skinny or a little bit on the chubby side as mvp.

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GarbanzoEnjoyer

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Isn't this just the vast majority of gamers

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Nollihd07

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Well that's why there should be a study to see which gamers are the best?
Fat guys or skinny guys or the minute percentage of actually fit guys.
They should view it scientifically.

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delighted

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not everything can be proven in science that easily

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delighted

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yeah but it's most likely not bc of bmi or anything like that

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Nollihd07

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Or maybe they can see how much percentage of fat makes a player good
Does less make him more bad or more fat makes him more bad

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delighted

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imo idt it's the percentage of fat but more on their mechanical skill (reaction time, game awareness, etc)

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Nollihd07

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Yeh well the kind of food you eat I guess should influence that

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delighted

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maybe the amount of vitamins they take as well

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need 1 chubby, 1 gym guy, 1 femboy for championship material team fr

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sw4gman

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how do we define gaming skills in this context? cause if we're gonna look for a paper, i dont know how researchers would measure that stuff. is it for fps games specifically? even then it seems too broad

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Nollihd07

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Look at people with trophies in fps games.

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delighted

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I'm pretty sure it's just their reaction time

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Nollihd07

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Reaction time is influenced by food you eat
And if you exercise or not.

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delighted

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exercise is a good factor
and amount of sleep as well

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sw4gman

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alright i thought you meant we're gonna sample people of different bmi's and judge their skills. yeah a correlation analysis could probably be done with that then (bmi to trophies?)

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Nollihd07

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Yes what's their BMI to trophies ratio

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sw4gman

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well i am a statistics student so tell me if this sounds good. id get all players since the first masters and record their BMI and let BMI be the predictor for having a trophy

x_i <- BMI
y_i <- trophy (valued at either 1:winner or 0: loser)

I would probably use logistic regression as the model (which im not yet 100% confident in doing) for that since the distribution implies a binary outcome. I also dont think their height and weight is publicly available so that ends that. im also not a believer of bmi being a complete measure of health

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Nollihd07

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Well I think you would need their height and weights

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kotchan

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zekkens height jemkin weight= back to back to back pain

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fat = better at gaming

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Nollihd07

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How did you come to this conclusion?
That's what I wanna see.

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kotchan

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they eat their ops

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https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/us7kaj/study_shows_that_video_game_players_with_severe/

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Nollihd07

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Damn.
Thanks for this.

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Alzi

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ardiis fell off after he started dieting this has some basis

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Nollihd07

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This.
Maybe if he gets fat again he will win.

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i think the ideal peak someone can have is just a lean fit body, mental fitness starts physically.

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Gaming skill is not a metric you would define on a scientific term, you could measure reaction time but how would you quantify game awareness and the strategic part of the game which the best players have and display during clutches and stuff

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Nollihd07

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With rating 2.0 on this site?

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bro bmi is not a real measurement of anything ill keep it a stack

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Ross

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This is also very true. Only good for extremely obese non muscular population. I used to be “BMI obese” whilst being relatively lean at 15% BF.

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Ross

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This seems something where coorelarion doesn’t even mean causation. Because gaming is primarily reaction speed and ability to focus. Skinny or fat should not 100% directly correlate. Dare I say, a lot of it is genetics and upbringing.