We want to introduce you to Toby. He is an Australian-based League of Legends player who worked his way to a Gold solo rank by grinding daily. He had done this through hard work and long sessions of multiple games, generally at night after being at work all day. During…

We often throw around the term performance when it comes to gaming, and at MaddCog specifically, we talk about mental performance, but it is about time we paused and looked at what this actually means. The more time you spend learning or studying a specific topic, the more complicated you…

Our previous research has shown the importance of achieving flow to perform your best in League of Legends. The average win rate is 13% higher when a player has high levels of flow. This made us wonder ‘do better players spend more time in flow?’ Using thousands of games of…

Playing League of Legends when fatigued results in winning 12% fewer games. Mental fatigue is not a good thing when it comes to gaming performance. We coined the term ‘mental fitness’ to describe the number of games you can play in a session before you start to see a substantial…

Mental fatigue can have a large impact on your gaming performance. Starting a game in a fatigued state can reduce your chance of winning by 12%. If you track your mental fatigue with a device like MaddCog, you will get a clear recommendation after every game whether you should play…

I have previously written about how tracking mental fatigue in gaming, and the science behind tracking mental fatigue. We know that we can track mental fatigue, we know it increases as you play for extended periods, and we know it can have a detrimental effect on performance. …

If you want to play a ranked online game such as League of Legends, how can you maximize your chance of winning? …

I write a lot about the impact that mental performance has on gaming performance. Looking at this research is always interesting, and it helps guide us to higher win rates. But we often get the question ‘how goes MaddCog actually help me play better?’ This article aims to provide the…

I write a lot about mental performance for gaming, and our company, MaddCog, has the sole purpose of measuring mental performance. That is all fine and well, but it begs the question, are the sensors used actually accurate? MaddCog uses two sensors to measure mental performance: Electroencephalography (EEG) — measures…