November 2021-December 2021: https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23574
April 2022-September 2022: https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28051
Unless otherwise stated, all data is for games ended between Dec 30 2022 and Jul 13 2023, where all players end with 200+ Elo, no additional spaces, Normal and Competitive modes combined, and with both CD and "New" cards enabled. "n" denotes how many tables, unless it's a category for a specific group of players, in which case I'll specify players.
First is analysis of Seating Order (starting position):
2-player (n=3181)
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order elo_start score end_1st end_2nd avg_rank
1 370.28 42.38 49.8% 50.2% 1.50
2 368.59 42.30 51.0% 49.0% 1.49
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order elo_start score end_1st end_2nd avg_rank
1 342.56 47.65 50.6% 49.4% 1.49
2 344.23 47.69 49.9% 50.1% 1.50
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order elo_start score end_1st end_2nd end_3rd avg_rank
1 314.39 42.87 37.5% 31.5% 31.1% 1.94
2 305.32 42.69 35.6% 33.0% 31.5% 1.96
3 308.80 41.64 27.0% 36.3% 36.7% 2.10
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order elo_start score end_1st end_2nd end_3rd end_4th avg_rank
1 393.21 43.44 26.3% 25.2% 24.8% 23.8% 2.46
2 393.14 43.39 26.9% 24.9% 24.3% 24.0% 2.45
3 392.02 43.20 24.3% 25.3% 25.4% 25.0% 2.51
4 392.51 42.78 23.3% 24.8% 25.3% 26.6% 2.55
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order elo_start score end_1st end_2nd end_3rd end_4th avg_rank
1 393.29 47.74 26.6% 25.3% 24.3% 23.8% 2.45
2 393.15 47.55 26.2% 25.7% 24.4% 23.7% 2.46
3 391.36 47.23 24.3% 25.0% 24.9% 25.7% 2.52
4 394.61 46.96 23.7% 24.2% 26.1% 26.1% 2.55
4-player with banlist, Experts (n=6351 players)
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order elo_start score end_1st end_2nd end_3rd end_4th avg_rank
1 566.47 48.01 48.3% 28.9% 15.7% 7.1% 1.82
2 565.05 48.08 50.2% 27.1% 14.9% 7.8% 1.80
3 563.35 47.94 46.8% 30.6% 15.1% 7.5% 1.83
4 564.98 47.35 44.9% 28.7% 17.0% 9.3% 1.91
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order elo_start score end_1st end_2nd end_3rd end_4th avg_rank
1 574.41 52.78 48.8% 27.5% 16.1% 7.6% 1.82
2 577.19 52.79 45.3% 30.0% 15.9% 8.8% 1.88
3 575.78 52.40 45.2% 29.5% 16.8% 8.5% 1.89
4 578.43 52.15 44.2% 29.2% 18.2% 8.4% 1.91
Key terms for the card statistics in following posts:
PWR is a measure of how often a card is on a 1st place tableau. ADP is the average draft position. APR is the average played round. WtdPWR is an experimental variant of PWR where instead of counting 1st places as 1 credit, I gave 0.6 credits to 1st place, 0.3 credits to 2nd place, and 0.1 credits to 3rd place. Elo/Play is a new calculation, the average Elo won or lost across all times the card was played.
The latter 2 stats are attempts to evaluate which cards are possibly strong because of how often they help a player get 2nd or 3rd place, or more generally win Elo - as opposed to regular PWR which only cares about getting 1st place or not.