Iterate and Improve: Reviewing the LVO Team Narrative Event Year 2
As we have established, I do not belong in competitive play. It’s just not my jam. Fun to number crunch and think about, yes. Which is why, for the past three […]
Tournaments
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
When You Pick Rules, You Pick Winners
I’ve come out against tinkering with the Warhammer 40,000 ruleset before on this blog, primarily in the name of portability, a topic near and dear to my heart as I […]
The Absurdity of BoLS’s ETC Analysis
A few days ago, Bell of Lost Souls published an article with the following title: Anatomy of a 40K Disaster: USA vs Europe ETC Analysis. My first though reading the title […]