Board Game Arena

The overall "analysis" occurred as discussion is the Discord server, so there's not a full documentation as easy to link to. The analysis I was looking at was done in this google sheets (specifically the tab named something like "600 vs 600"). Thanks, that's interesting to read ...

Arena matchmaking is lacking for high rank players. Which I'm not, but I know what their grinding process is like. They don't want to play out the games where ELO/arena points gain is minimal. So are you sure you're not misattributing here? I.e., did you dismiss the games where the stronger player ...

I believe a more recent look at a much larger selection of high-elo 2-player games found a first player win rate somewhere around 51%. I don't have the number of games for that statistic, so can't calculate the confidence interval on it. OK, going back and looking for more details on this, the data...

Someone let me know that quite a few players use this abandonment tactic and it's been going on for at least the last 2 years. Some very rough calculations to see how much of an impact this has: According to these stats the first player win rate for 350+ elo players is around 55%. If you play 100 ga...

The currently top ranked arena player abandoned 11 of their last 50 games before the first turn, mostly when they're second player or occasionally as first player with a poor action card selection. It seems like proposing to abandon a game is a viable arena strategy if you're second player. Maybe so...

Our 4 player Marine Worlds game with master level players is under way! We have lx_xlO--lo_oQl (elo 746) on map 7a (Commercial Harbour) JDansp (elo 728) on map 8a (Hollywood Hills) Sir Fluffy (elo 745) on map 6a (Research Institute) Propaganda Panda (elo 716) on map 3a (Silver Lake) Propaganda Panda...

Your 4p MW game sounds interesting - I'll ask around and see if I can find other players who would be interested to play this! Thanks for drumming up some interest Propaganda Panda! Looks like you managed to get lx_xlO--lo_oQl to join the game. Just need 2 more. Unfortunately the game was open for ...

I promise you that your viewship for everyone involved will skyrocket if you are broadcasting 4p tournament, that's 4 times the streamers and star power in a single game. It's just good biz and good time for everyone involved. You can even have a main commentator in the main stream, 4p is far more ...