Tim “Magic” Sevenhuysen is a League of Legends stat consultant.
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League of Legends esports teams turn to Tim ‘Magic’ Sevenhuysen for ‘Moneyball’ counsel

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The Moneyball of esports is quite a reality yet. But the Brad Pitt movie and Michael Lewis book has been a good way to describe what Tim Sevenhuysen does as a statistics consultant for League of Legends esports teams.

Sevenhuysen believes that analytics matters when it comes to analyzing and advising professional esports players. And he got a lot of attention last week when Berlin-based esports startup Dojo Madness has launched Shadow.LoL, an analytics and data visualization platform for professional League of Legends teams. Sevenhuysen was a key adviser in helping to create the platform, along with esports outfit Team Liquid.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.