Which faction wins more battlegrounds in WoW Forever?

In the battleground records of the characters this site tracks (11,150 games, a match counted once for each tracked player in it), Alliance players won 45% of theirs and Horde players 60%. The tables break it down by battleground and region.

Is WoW Forever Alliance or Horde heavy?

Of the 71,880 characters the ladder has polled, 45% are Alliance and 55% Horde. The split differs by region and ruleset; the faction balance table has each one.

Where do these win rates come from?

From the battleground statistics in Blizzard's profile of each character the AHledger PvP ladder tracks: games played and won on each map over the character's life. A match counts once for every tracked player in it, so the two sides' rates need not add up to 100, and a rate is hidden when fewer than 30 players stand behind it.

World of Warcraft: Forever · Alliance against Horde

Battleground win rates and faction balance

Name: WoW Forever battleground win rates
Creator: AHledger

Which side wins each battleground, and how the factions split on every ruleset, summed from the battleground records of the characters the PvP leaderboard tracks. These are the characters players have looked up or met in game, not every player, so read the sample size beside each figure.

11,150games in tracked players’ records
45%Alliance win rate, all maps
60%Horde win rate, all maps
71,880characters polled

US · battlegrounds

Who wins on US

Battleground win rates on US by faction
Battleground	Alliance wins	Horde wins
Warsong Gulch3,845 games	49%1,492 games, 482 players	58%2,353 games, 898 players
Arathi Basin654 games	26%216 games, 101 players	75%438 games, 159 players
Darkspear Islands9 games	2 players, too few	4 players, too few

EU · battlegrounds

Who wins on EU

Battleground win rates on EU by faction
Battleground	Alliance wins	Horde wins
Warsong Gulch5,689 games	46%2,805 games, 1,141 players	59%2,884 games, 1,323 players
Arathi Basin937 games	37%472 games, 224 players	63%465 games, 208 players
Darkspear Islands16 games	5 players, too few	7 players, too few

Faction balance

Alliance and Horde on every ruleset

Characters the ladder has polled, by faction.

Faction balance on US by ruleset
US ruleset	Alliance	Horde
Normal	50%2,621	50%2,595
PvP	30%4,899	70%11,531
Roleplay	99%1,184	1%15
Roleplay PvP	2%23	98%1,038

Faction balance on EU by ruleset
EU ruleset	Alliance	Horde
Normal	58%8,895	42%6,542
PvP	42%12,401	58%17,109
Roleplay	85%2,558	15%466
Roleplay PvP	-2	-1

The most played battleground in these records is Warsong Gulch, with 9,534 games across US and EU in tracked players' records.

Lifetime records from Blizzard character profiles, summed hourly. A match counts once for each tracked player in it. A rate or share resting on fewer than 30 players is not shown.

Common questions

Which faction wins more battlegrounds in WoW Forever?: In the battleground records of the characters this site tracks (11,150 games, a match counted once for each tracked player in it), Alliance players won 45% of theirs and Horde players 60%. The tables break it down by battleground and region.
Is WoW Forever Alliance or Horde heavy?: Of the 71,880 characters the ladder has polled, 45% are Alliance and 55% Horde. The split differs by region and ruleset; the faction balance table has each one.
Where do these win rates come from?: From the battleground statistics in Blizzard's profile of each character the AHledger PvP ladder tracks: games played and won on each map over the character's life. A match counts once for every tracked player in it, so the two sides' rates need not add up to 100, and a rate is hidden when fewer than 30 players stand behind it.