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SKILL BREAKDOWN:
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SodaPop wrote
at 1:47 AM, Sunday September 23, 2007 EDT
after seeing bcmatteagles thread, id thought id breakdown the skill involved in this game.
discuss: The skill involved in this game: -reading other players moves -playing the board [bottle necks] -playing the scoring system [when to flag] -knowing your odds [when to attack] *persuading other players But you can still do all this well in a game and end up 7th. 80% chance 20% skill if you are all basically even after the 3rd round, 50% chance, 50% skill discuss |
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JKD wrote
at 3:49 AM, Sunday September 23, 2007 EDT If you can convince people to kill off your islands and threaten your biggest threats that helps a bit.
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azala wrote
at 4:58 PM, Sunday September 23, 2007 EDT Breaking down "skill" and "luck" on a per-game basis is completely useless, just like if you did so for poker on a per-hand basis ("Wow you played those pocket aces really well!").
Playing 400 games means your standard-deviation "luck" factors in at about 1/sqrt(400) or 1/20th of what it is on a per game basis. I know that I play about 3x better, pointwise, when drunk - probably from playing a better social game. I speculate, then, that the breakdown over the long run is about: 75% social ability (everything from PGAs to short-term truces) 20% technical ability (good moves, if you were playing against 6 non-social computers) 5% luck You could also watch the players with the best points-per-game ratios and figure it out from them. o_O |
