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As we've got some games in with the newest set of Alpha cards now, it's probably a good time to start formalizing some of the talks I've seen happening regarding what should be banned in this set. To me, there are 3 tiers of ban considerations in these cards. I don't feel like writing out all the re...

While I'm always happy to hear that avenues for feature abuse are being removed, I am of the belief that some behaviors aren't punished heavily enough by karma in the first place. So while I still think this is a good change, repeat quitters (as the main example I can think of) are now punished even...

the action space is taken, only 1 of the 2 additional space options can be used each round

The overall results here are fairly unsurprising. The best players in a game reach and maintain higher ELO when the games include less randomness. I don't have data to back it, but I suspect friendly games make up a relatively small portion of games played by top ELO players. In most cases they're ...

Here are the stats for all of these birds in the first spot in their best habitat (omitting the song sparrow, since BGA only records where the bird ends, not where it begins). I haven't bothered including which habitat because you can probably guess for each of them. This is the relevant section fo...

Can we also talk about how stupid a pure elo system is for a high variance game? Like, how can I lose 2 games of progress for tieing a strong player? There are definitely many downsides to BGA's Elo system, including that using 1 set of k-factors regardless of game will lead to many poor choices of...

4-player with banlist, Experts (n=6351 players) Are there actually that many Expert players or is that a count of how many times an "Expert" played a game? 2nd option. How many times a player ended with 500+ Elo, across all games in the timeframe where all players ended with 200+ Elo.

Making up statistics doesn't make them true. And it makes you look bad to say that I don't know how to play it. I have WORLD ELO #1 trophy for Wingspan. If I can reach World #1 player in Wingspan I'm pretty sure I know if the Wood Duck is strong or not. Maybe you should learn how to play the other ...

3 player games, obligatory small sample size warning (n=267) Rank Card Name PWR ADP APR Deals Drafted Plays WinHand WinPlay WtdPWR Elo/Play 1 Work Certificate 9.52 1.33 6.00 3 3 2 2 2 5.71 21.08 2 Caravan 7.14 1.17 6.60 6 6 5 4 3 5.24 2.05 3 Cross-Cut Wood 7.14 5.33 11.50 6 6 6 3 3 5.48 3.02 4 Teach...

Here's a sorted list of those 500+ and 300- player rankings to show which cards might be better used by higher-rated players: Card Name 500+rk 300-rk RankDif Writing Boards 67 288 221 Wholesaler 99 301 202 Field Caretaker 107 302 195 District Manager 296 491 195 Stockyard 69 261 192 Collector 26 214...