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Game duration analysis for ~600games

I see a lot of misconceptions about game duration time on this sub, people just tell estimate that in often case will be high extreme generated by their feelings. As it happens, i have decent sample size for 3 different archetypes that in local opinion will have huge difference in their game duration and i did some math to see is it truth or false.

Shortly about stats:

1) All of games played in last 2 month, ranks 5-legend with exception of hunter which had games outside of r5 (all of those "winstreak" rank games were on morning of day 1 this season, so i think you can agree it's pretty much same lvl of opponents)

2) For people interested in proofs:

Screenshots for game stats http://imgur.com/a/A2QYQ (rank tab - opponents rank)

Spreadsheet used for calculations https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ixRC6QIeeyVGLuDMxBrZmyaV03g5ea-u1V0loQuAIsE/edit?usp=sharing

3) During calculations each game time was rounded to minutes, cause i'm lazy.

4) Even though it's just coincidence, all decks have winrate around 60%

5) Decks that were used:

Mid range druid (144 games with sylv+war, rest with faster version) http://imgur.com/a/6ZCzj

Control warrior (half games with jones, half emperor) http://imgur.com/vyGy0TS

Face hunter (21 game trap experiments, rest exact list. WR in screenshot probably bugged, client has 61%) http://imgur.com/sAzvUJr

So, here results:

	Druid	Warrior	Hunter
Games played	234	155	175
Average time (m)	6.12	7.36	4.96

What does those mean in grand scale? Here one more table to give simple examples

	Druid vs Hunter	Warrior vs Druid	Warrior vs Hunter
Games played to accumulate extra hour	52	49	25
Extra time played after 100 games	1 hour 56 min	2 hours 4 min	4 hours

Are those differences worth it to start playing faster deck? For you to decide, all i ask - stop using extremes like "every cw game is 20min" in your discussion.

Random bonus facts:

1) Out of 3 longest games only one CW mirror, while longest is Warrior vs Druid.

2) Longest game for each deck - Warrior 18:46 (#1 overall, win against druid), Druid 16:11 (#3 overall, defeat against priest), Hunter 13:27 (#11 overall, win by fatigue against patron, one of my favorites in ages).

3) Slowest class as opponent is priest with 8.1 min average.

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