Major Pick'ems Simulator

Simulate tournament stage outcomes for Counter-Strike major tournaments, to assist decision making for pick'ems. The swiss system follows the seeding rules and format documented by Valve, and the tournament rounds are progressed with randomised match outcomes.

Each team's regional standings global ranking points are used to approximate a win probability for each head to head match up. This is by no means an exhaustive or accurate analysis but may give insight to some teams which have higher probability of facing weaker teams to get their 3 wins, or vice versa.

Installation

Download the binary from the latest release, or install from source using cargo with the nightly toolchain:

cargo +nightly install major-pickems-sim

Common commands

Run a basic simulation

pickems simulate --file data/2025_budapest_stage_3.toml

Run the picks report

pickems simulate --file data/2025_budapest_stage_3.toml --report picks

Assess a set of picks

pickems simulate --file data/2025_budapest_stage_3.toml --report assess \
  --three-zero FURIA G2 \
  --advancing MOUZ Falcons Vitality "The MongolZ" "Team Spirit" Liquid \
  --zero-three Imperial "Passion UA"

Update local data files from this repository

pickems data update --path data

Create an input file with the data wizard

pickems data wizard --file data/custom_stage.toml

Inspect an input file

pickems data inspect --file data/2025_budapest_stage_3.toml

TOML input data format

Input files contain exactly 16 teams. Each team has an initial seed and rating.

["{string: team name}"]
seed = {integer: initial seed for tournament stage}
rating = {integer: current global ranking points}

Latest Output: StarLadder Budapest Major 2025 - Stage 3

pickems simulate --file data/2025_budapest_stage_3.toml

RESULTS FROM 1,000,000 TOURNAMENT SIMULATIONS

Most likely to 3-0:
1.  FURIA                 41.5%
2.  Falcons               33.3%
3.  Vitality              31.6%
4.  MOUZ                  20.2%
5.  The MongolZ           19.6%
6.  G2                    11.8%
7.  Team Spirit           10.0%
8.  Liquid                 7.3%
9.  Natus Vincere          6.3%
10. paiN                   4.5%
11. 3DMAX                  4.2%
12. B8                     3.4%
13. FaZe                   3.0%
14. PARIVISION             1.9%
15. Passion UA             0.9%
16. Imperial               0.6%

Most likely to 3-1 or 3-2:
1.  MOUZ                  54.5%
2.  Falcons               53.9%
3.  Vitality              53.2%
4.  The MongolZ           51.7%
5.  FURIA                 51.1%
6.  Team Spirit           49.8%
7.  G2                    47.0%
8.  Liquid                44.5%
9.  Natus Vincere         44.5%
10. paiN                  31.6%
11. 3DMAX                 29.5%
12. B8                    29.0%
13. FaZe                  25.4%
14. PARIVISION            18.7%
15. Passion UA             9.2%
16. Imperial               6.5%

Most likely to 0-3:
1.  Imperial              40.9%
2.  Passion UA            36.5%
3.  PARIVISION            24.0%
4.  FaZe                  18.5%
5.  B8                    16.4%
6.  3DMAX                 15.4%
7.  paiN                  11.7%
8.  Natus Vincere          9.4%
9.  Liquid                 8.8%
10. Team Spirit            5.3%
11. G2                     4.6%
12. The MongolZ            2.6%
13. MOUZ                   2.5%
14. Vitality               1.5%
15. Falcons                1.2%
16. FURIA                  0.7%

Run time: 0.093 seconds

pickems simulate --file data/2025_budapest_stage_3.toml --report picks

RESULTS FROM 1,000,000 TOURNAMENT SIMULATIONS

3-0 picks:
1.  FURIA                 41.6%
2.  G2                    11.8%

3-1 or 3-2 picks:
1.  MOUZ                  54.4%
2.  Falcons               53.9%
3.  Vitality              53.2%
4.  The MongolZ           51.7%
5.  Team Spirit           49.7%
6.  Liquid                44.6%

0-3 picks:
1.  Imperial              40.8%
2.  Passion UA            36.5%

Simulated stars earned: 4.384 +/- 1.398
Expected success (>=5 stars): 46.7%

Run time: 0.197 seconds

major-pickems-sim 0.3.0