@turinturambar said in Game analysis - Replay #14886292:
why do you assume knowing an issue means you suddenly "magically" dont make that mistake anmore?
Please read more carefully, because I never said that. " You're obviously going to make mistakes, and vitally, should notice that you made IN GAME." "You see you were stalling, then ALREADY KNOW to make some adjustments for next game. Watching the replay is a waste." I clearly never said noobs don't make those mistakes, just that they can easily notice them in game. Basically my point is noobs benefit more if they focus on learning general strategies, tactics and simple build orders and learn to execute them fairly well, but don't need to look at the replay to realize what mistakes they made.
I agree focusing on improving things systematically is probably more efficient to improve, but I'm saying watching replays isn't required for that, or the most efficient use of your time to do it. You hit the nail on the head: "picking 1-3 things in your gameplay you wanna fix and improve your habits on and then concentrate on them ingame for the next XXX games."
I would agree watching a replay occasionally is fine, especially when you can't find any games, but I'd probably only analyze less than 10%, probably about 5%. The largest benefit I see is to compare my overall performance to someone else to get an idea of who had a more efficient build order and possibly copy some of the things they were doing. But in that case I'm mostly watching someone else and not so much what I was even doing, just like I said before that they should just watch replays of better players and try to emulate them instead.
EDIT: So the TL:DR Conclusion is: basically if you can find a game, just play rather than watch a replay. If you can't find a game, there is no downside to analyzing your replays, but it is probably better to watch replays of better players instead of your own games.