What are the best OWL orgs for your career?

I recently saw a Twitter post warning players not to join Chengdu Hunters, Vancouver Titans, or Vegas Eternal if they want to continue their career in the Overwatch League. I decided to take an analytical approach and determine which organizations are truly the best and worst for your career.

I took stats for every player who has left the a given team and where they immediately went next.

Just counting players re-signed to OWL teams as successes, the best teams are Seoul Dynasty, San Francisco Shock, and Los Angeles Gladiators. The worst teams are Los Angeles Valiant (LinGan-operation era), Chengdu Hunters, and Las Vegas Eternal (NA-operation era). Note how two of the three worst teams had drastically cut budgets, so much so that I felt it was necessary to separate them from their other eras.

Counting players going to Overwatch Contenders as "still active," Los Angeles Valiant (Immortals-operated era) was the best team by a large margin, in massive contrast to their LinGan era, which is the lowest by either metric.

This list likely comes as no surprise to anyone familiar with the League, but indicates how low investment in a team not only hurts its immediate performance but also the opportunities its alumni are likely to have in the future. If OWL wants to truly support its players, it needs to find a way to ensure its orgs actually care about their teams.