Details of competitiveness algorithm?
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Posted on Sept. 8, 2017, 7:40 p.m. by SweetSupremacy
Does anyone have specific details about how the competitiveness algorithm determines how competitive your EDH decks are? My play group would like to try using it, but we can't make sense of how it figures out what it does, which would be important if we all say we want to build 70% decks to play against each other or something.
Your playgroup should just enjoy the game. If anyones deck wins TOO much, take a note. If it keeps dominating either improve the other decks or ask the guy to nerf it a bit. You don't need a computer basing competitiveness on tourney results to tell you if a deck is too dominating. Going down that line will cause you to trying to break T/O algoritm instead of the game, which i assure you will be muuuuch easier.
September 8, 2017 8:15 p.m.
SweetSupremacy says... #4
@smackjack let me tell you that we've been feeling each other's lists out for years and it's fine. Thing is, several of us in my group are engineers and we like things to be measured, so a competitiveness algorithm is a pretty attractive idea to us. We have a 'budget challenge' that we do where we'll set a budget to $100 or $150 with no combos allowed and all build decks to go against each other under those limitations. That works surprisingly well to create a couple of powered down rounds that are balanced against each other when we meet.
But, with my background in software engineering and analytics specifically, I could imagine a pretty sophisticated algorithm to determine competitiveness of EDH decks if you worked hard enough at it. My asking what the algorithm is was one way for me to discover if it's what I hope it is or not.
Further - and this is just extra for your own benefit - in my years experience, users of my applications which reveal insights based on analytics have always wanted to know what's in the algorithm. If you're ever trying to influence behavior or just want users to trust the numbers you're showing, the details explained in a way they can understand is critical.
September 9, 2017 1:59 a.m.
Hyperalgialysis says... #5
I would imagine yeaGO is the one to ask. If he doesn't have the answer then he can point you to who does. If you were to find the algorithm to be inadequate would you consider making one? I have just found out about any of this being applied to magic and am rather interested.
smackjack says... #2
Multiple threads about this. Wait and you will see. If it annoys you, ignore.
September 8, 2017 8:09 p.m.