This repository contains the analysis code and results for our paper Mind the Gap: Distributed practice enhances performance in a MOBA game. Our analysis tests the effects of clustering versus spacing play instances on performance in League of Legends. We iterate on previous work that has investigated the effects of distributed practice - a known effect in the psychology of learning - using observational game telemetry data.
This code repository allows interested readers (we hope these exist!) to reproduce our results. Clone this repository on your machine. Then, run main.ipynb to reproduce all figures and statistics found in the paper main body. Running appendix_1.ipynb will produce all auxiliary results concerning normalised MMR trends, found in the appendices. Running appendix_2.ipynb will produce auxiliary results concerning secondary clustering techniques, also found in the paper appendices.
All dependencies are listed in the top level file requirements.txt.
We recommend installing specified package versions to avoid conflicts. We also recommend installing packages in a virtualenv (unless a system-wide installation of dependencies is desired).