Actual FTA Data

[Ravernoth]

(10-03-2012 04:07 AM)onealexleft Wrote:  

(10-03-2012 02:20 AM)garcia1000 Wrote:  Thanks for the data! I bet some maps are higher FTA than others.

again, another surprising stat. This wasn't the case. A lot of people think sweetie plains may be the most balanced map, while Foundry and Glitch had the biggest issues.

Foundry indeed did have a higher FTA (63%) while Sweetie had 59.8%. But that's the biggest spread we have across maps. A 3.2% spread. When all your data shows that player 1 is winning on average 10-12% more than they should be across the board, map specific balances don't seem to be as significant right now.

And yes we did this across leagues as well and results were similar on all maps across all leagues: 60-65%.

So we're working to reduce this in the beta at the moment.

Alex, many thanks for working on this, and for creating a brilliant game.

It's definitely surprising data, much lower than we expected and encountered in the tournament.

1.5:1 and 50% advantage for P1 is still large, so it would be great to get this down.

A 10% advantage or 52/48 would be pretty good I think.

Best of luck with the beta testing!

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(10-03-2012 05:15 AM)Gfich Wrote:  

(10-03-2012 05:11 AM)onealexleft Wrote:  

(10-03-2012 04:15 AM)Harti Wrote:  Wait a minute. Did you exclude all games with less than 5 or so turns? That'd be booted players. I think it occured much that newbies created 5-20 games and deleted the app after two days.

And if you're proposition is correct? Doesn't really change the gifted+ data. You aren't exactly a new player at this point if you're master+ either.

Actually, yes. As described here , you can actually get straight into masters after 5 plays

Not something that i like that much...

It's true people can skip to Master doing this, but the numbers are very unlikely to affect thousands of results in the aggregate.

Maybe the recent data will be closer to what we expected and explain some of the discrepancy.