Is Going to Tournaments Correlated with Winning Them?
I was grabbing a current snapshot of the current ITC standings (as of Jan. 29, 2017) for another project, but while I was looking at the data I started wondering […]
Tournaments
The Performance-Sportsmanship Tradeoff
After yesterday’s analysis of the Warzone Atlanta data, a commenter on Reddit objected to my use of the term “Friendly” to describe my army, and the implication that competitive armies […]
Warzone Atlanta: Crunching the Numbers
In a previous post, I went over Warzone Atlanta from the perspective of an event attendee. Now that I’ve gotten my hands on the data from the event itself, I […]
Warzone Atlanta: A View From the Tables
Last weekend, I got the spend the better part of two days throwing down with complete strangers at Warzone Atlanta. An analysis of the tournament itself is coming when I […]
What’s Wrong With The Tau?
“There are two armies ruining the game: Eldar and Tau.” I hear some form of this a lot. Any mention of overpowered factions, units that need nerfing, ‘What’s wrong with the […]
40K is Forked
So not long after I put out my view on the new ITC 2016 Q1 poll, the results came out, and now, like so many talking heads staring at primary […]
Variance Hammer’s Take on the ITC 2016 Q1 Poll
It’s that time again – the ITC has released a new set of question that will help determine the direction the ITC rulings will go, and thus how most games […]
Number Crunching the LVO
At the very beginning of this blog, at the end of 7th Edition, I wrote ‘Requiem for an Edition’, a statistical look at the Las Vegas Open. It proved to […]
The Las Vegas Open Narrative Event: Surprise Apocalypse
Simulating the occasional tournament is about as close as I’ll ever come to the top tables at an event like the Las Vegas Open. When it comes down to it, I’m […]
Variance Hammer Will Be at the LVO
Variance Hammer is hitting Las Vegas. The Corsair-themed Craftworld Eldar are being loaded up in KR cases, and I’ll be participating in the Las Vegas Open’s Narrative Event. If you’re […]