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Cheers, Kevin. See you in Cardiff!

Mr. Goo - how many (rough estimate) tournaments would you say are using some sort of tiering rules so far in 2018?
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Martin

It's a total guess, but I should think approximately 70 % of tournaments have some form of tiering, even if it's just having some extra help for Stunties. There are regions that don't care for it or have different fashions, there are regions that take it really far. Just a feeling though - the real number might be a chunk off either way.

No real way to pull the data, I assume? It would be brute force approach of reading all the rules for every tourney?


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I should imagine so, it's all submitted in text or links to other sites rather than enforced numerical fields.

If you were super interested in just the base question without any granularity, it wouldn't take too long to skim a reasonably sized sample. You could do, 150, say in an hour or less if all you were looking for is evidence of tiering and no detail. A job for someone not me, having said that.

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Hi all!

My June NAF TD blog is up. I've not played any TT BB in June, so no tournament report over at thetacklezone.net this time.

Hope you enjoy!

Hello all,

July blog time! Check here for the NAF stuff, and here for a report on the third Bilbao Team Cup.

Some cracking images and words from TOs this month, and the BTC is a real humdinger of an event. Worth a skim with a cup of tea, if nothing else.

Cheers!

Phil.

Thanks Phil. Always a good read!

Thinking of complementing the blog with a monthly stat roundup. Anything you can think of that would be good to add?

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Great idea and nice work! I love the stats you have pulled there. Them Orcs are as popular as ever!

Perhaps add a pie chart of race winners for the month?

(also: Keep up the good work Phil, always an enjoyable read)

Good blog again Phil. I maintain that your photo of me from The Waterbowl is the best from the year however

Liking the stats too, Sann. Was trying to think of some fun, silly stats (à la Andy Saltzman) to add in for occasional irreverence, but guess it's hard when we only count TDs for and against...

mawph wrote:Good blog again Phil. I maintain that your photo of me from The Waterbowl is the best from the year however

Agreed.

On stats - it's difficult to think up meaningful things to look at from a single month of tournaments. Simple win rate by race, for instance, will be super noisy because of the huge variation in rulespacks and the relatively small sample size across a month.

One thing that would be interesting / valuable is to look at over time is the sub-set of tournaments running the World Cup rules. The team are interested in which / how many tournaments running the WC pack for practice, and these tournaments have the same ruleset, so any stats you pull out will be interesting because the environment is the same. Sadly, I suspect it'll take some manual detective work to get at those numbers, but if that interests you, I'm sure we'd all be interested to see how the races are doing?

Purplegoo wrote:One thing that would be interesting / valuable is to look at over time is the sub-set of tournaments running the World Cup rules. The team are interested in which / how many tournaments running the WC pack for practice, and these tournaments have the same ruleset, so any stats you pull out will be interesting because the environment is the same. Sadly, I suspect it'll take some manual detective work to get at those numbers, but if that interests you, I'm sure we'd all be interested to see how the races are doing?

As you see most/all tourneys that come through, if you put an obvious tag (NAFWC2019) at the beginning of the text description of the tournament, then I can pick that up? Would that seem manageable?