Absolutely, misplays are things like playing coin when you forget about having a Pyro, trying to heal when you have an Auchenai etc.
This was a reasonable play, just a sub-optimal one.
I guess it's all semantics, but part of my thought on this is that it's not a misplay in part because it's not immediately obvious that it's a sub-optimal one. The math behind that is rather complex. If that math is more obvious than I thought, please do share!
A misplay is a mistake. It's something very obviously wrong that hurts someone's odds to win, given the information available at the time.
Loyan looked to have considered his options, and made the play he felt was the best one - the one he felt would give him the best odds to win.
With the benefit of hindsight, if that play ended up costing him the game, we can say it was not the correct play. Even a bad play has a chance to be the correct one, but that's impossible to know in the moment and the odds are against it.
I think the play highlighted is very defensible, and may even be the best one (again, the one that gives him the best odds of winning, given the information he had at the time).
The only clear misplay I see in the video is where he speeds through a turn, trading into a Fiery Bat, then later decides to play Spellbreaker to challenge the opposing 2/4. He could have made the same exact play while taking 1 less damage if he had sequenced properly - THAT is the hallmark of a misplay.
Realz
I guess it's all semantics, but part of my thought on this is that it's not a misplay in part because it's not immediately obvious that it's a sub-optimal one. The math behind that is rather complex. If that math is more obvious than I thought, please do share!
Realz
I would not categorize this as a misplay.
A misplay is a mistake. It's something very obviously wrong that hurts someone's odds to win, given the information available at the time.
Loyan looked to have considered his options, and made the play he felt was the best one - the one he felt would give him the best odds to win.
With the benefit of hindsight, if that play ended up costing him the game, we can say it was not the correct play. Even a bad play has a chance to be the correct one, but that's impossible to know in the moment and the odds are against it.
I think the play highlighted is very defensible, and may even be the best one (again, the one that gives him the best odds of winning, given the information he had at the time).
The only clear misplay I see in the video is where he speeds through a turn, trading into a Fiery Bat, then later decides to play Spellbreaker to challenge the opposing 2/4. He could have made the same exact play while taking 1 less damage if he had sequenced properly - THAT is the hallmark of a misplay.