Recently there was a discussion about the viability of migs in 1v1 matches, so I thought it would be interesting to look through the matches where these were produced from this season. There were only seventeen matches where a mig was queued so I fast forwarded through them all to gather a few stats and impressions about what happened in the matches. Most of this post is just a list of events, but I've summarised it as a table at the end.
inno vs Mo on Styx [RAGL-16]
First mig produced at 21k vs 15k
First mig: killed 2 harvesters then died.
Second mig killed 2 heavies
inno vs Mo on Champion
First mig produced at 22k vs 5k
First mig: kill 1 harvester then died
Second and third mig: killed 2 harvesters
Mint vs anjew on Elevation
First mig produced at 29k vs 16k
First mig: killed 2 mammoths
inno vs Upps on Darker Woods
First mig produced at 24k vs 33k
First mig: died to AA gun
Second mig: killed one harvester then died
inno vs anjew on malevolence
First mig produced at 25k vs 23k
First mig: one harvester then died
Second mig: died
Third mig: died
inno vs Mint on Messened
First mig produced at 24k vs 7k
First mig: Did nothing
inno vs Mint on Champion
First mig produced at 33k vs 20k
First mig: killed 1 harvester, died
inno vs Unano on Champion
First mig produced at 19k vs 7k
First mig: killed 1 harvester
Second mig: Didn't get chance to do anything before Unano gged
TTTPPP vs Gregory_Mhf on Elevation
First mig produced at 16k vs 16k
First mig: died
Second mig: killed one harvester, died
TTTPPP vs Gregory_Mhf on Island Fight
Although a mig was queued, this game ended before it was produced.
Nilhall vs Gregory_Mhf on Elevation
First mig produced at 18k vs 21k
First mig: One shot was wasted on a rifle then Hans sent it to reload. It then had two shots countered by a mrj and was sent to reload again. Unfortunately it didn't get to fire again before the end of the game.
TTTPPP vs milkman on malevolence
First mig produced at 18k vs 22k
First mig: died
Second mig: killed 1 harvester then died
Third mig: died
Nilhall vs fiwo on Mini Asymmetric Battle
First mig produced at 23k vs 10k
First mig: died
Second mig: killed 1 harvester
Joined by third mig: killed a v2 and a heavy, then one mig died
The remaining mig was joined by a fourth mig: they kill another v2 and a barracks, then one mig died
The remaining mig: killed a third v2 and then died
Fifth mig: Produced just before the end of the game
TTTPPP vs Nilhall on Island Fight
First mig produced at 31k vs 20k
Two migs were produced and both died without achieving anything
Sigil vs fiwo on malevolence
First mig produced at 33k vs 1k
First mig: Produced just before fiwo gged.

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inno vs Unano on Darker Woods (Playoffs)
First mig produced at 21k vs 23k
First mig: killed one heavy before Unano sniped it on the airfield with a yak
inno vs Unano on Elevation (Playoffs)
First mig produced at 20k vs 15k
First mig: kill 2 harvesters
Joined by a second mig: together they killed two medium tanks
A third mig was produced and then one died
The remaining two migs killed four harvesters and five mediums.
This was the final game of the season, and it featured the highest amount of assets killed by migs. Unano was Allies and stuck without radar tech for most of the game. By the time he managed to produce AA guns then the game was pretty much lost. The bulk of the game was inno on T3 vs Unano on T1.5, so it's not surprising the migs did well. inno did manage to get a vet 2 mig though, which isn't something you see every day!

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Gathering all this data up then we can see the money spent on migs is not often recouped. In three of the matches then the migs weren't killed and didn't kill anything.
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Player Opponent Situation Assets bought Assets lost Assets killed
inno Mo 21k vs 15k 4000 2000 4500
inno Mo 22k vs 5k 4000 2000 3300
inno Upps 24k vs 33k 4000 4000 1100
inno anjew 25k vs 23k 4000 6000 1100
inno Mint 24k vs 7k 2000 0 0
inno Mint 33k vs 20k 2000 2000 1100
inno Unano 19k vs 7k 4000 0 1100
inno Unano 21k vs 23k 2000 2000 1150
inno Unano 20k vs 15k 6000 2000 12550
Mint anjew 29k vs 16k 2000 0 4000
TTTPPP Greg 16k vs 16k 4000 4000 1100
TTTPPP milkman 18k vs 22k 6000 6000 1100
TTTPPP Hans 31k vs 20k 4000 4000 0
Hans Greg 18k vs 21k 2000 0 0
Hans fiwo 23k vs 10k 10000 8000 5450
Sigil fiwo 33k vs 1k 2000 0 0
=== TOTALS ===
inno 185k vs 148k 32000 20000 25900
Mint 29k vs 16k 2000 0 4000
TTTPPP 65k vs 58k 14000 14000 2200
Hans 41k vs 31k 12000 8000 5450
Sigil 33k vs 1k 2000 0 0
From the sums at the bottom of that table we can see some players are better off not using migs at all (in particular all three minions players). Even inno, who was the main user of migs this season, was losing on migs before the final playoff game against Unano.