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The answer to this might well put me off playing BB..FOREVER
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 1:52 am
by niks_in_da_mix
OK - if I'm going to be any good at this, am I REALLY going to have to bother with all the statistics and stuff? Can't I just guess? Maybe we should make it a rule that anyone that works out statistics or probabilities in order to play better should never be allowed to play again. BB or indeed any other game. Fair? (I can give you a hand with wording if you need help writing it for the LRB)
XX N
PS, if I'm not going to be the best, I don't want to play...*bottom lip out*
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 2:03 am
by sean newboy
Statistics are for horse races, not dice games.
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 2:07 am
by Ghost of Pariah
The only statistics and probabilities you really need to know are the easy, almost common sense ones. Just learn to play, and you'll get better. Just like everything else.
I can put it best by saying that this is a thinking game so everyone is going to have a different way of doing things. The satisticians like to think that there is only one way to look at it but that's pretty common of all scientists. lol
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 2:58 am
by GalakStarscraper
Yeah take my current game.
I'm failing 75% of my rolls that have a 75% chance of success ... don't worry about the odds ... learn some basics ... 3 dice blocks are normally pretty safe. A 3+ roll with a reroll is better than a 2+ without one.
Those basics are all you need ... Lady Luck will deal the rest.
Galak
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 3:31 am
by Balrog
GalakStarscraper wrote:A 3+ roll with a reroll is better than a 2+ without one.
It also depends which reality you live in. In the above case the opposite is true for me. Rolls of 3+ with a reroll will fail always, unless it's trivial. Rolls of 2+ will always succeed, unless it's trivial.
My reality is very odd... I keep seeing purple elephants...
-Balrog
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 3:41 am
by Zombie
You can become very good without working out odds, especially with experience as you'll just know what works. But you won't become the best player in the world.
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 4:13 am
by Ghost of Pariah
Yes cuz we all know the best players in the world are the Canadians!
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 6:58 am
by Zombie
Might be. We already rule at Starcraft and Counterstrike (seriously), so why not Blood Bowl. Just because of the sheer mass of players though, i wouldn't be surprised if most of the best players were British.
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 7:16 am
by Dave
We'll see that in the next few days probabely. Everyone played good and a German wins the cup
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 8:33 am
by Marcus
S.B.B! D.L.S.W!
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 8:36 am
by Deathwing
S.B.B! D.L.S.W!
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 8:47 am
by Sputnik
Everyone played good and a German wins the cup
I am still at work now but getting exited. 24 hours to go. Then we will see....
S.B.B. L.S.W.
Sputnik
P.S.: Deathwing, are prepared properly for your campain??? It might amuse myself or start to give my very best...and there is further something for you I will bring with me..surprise!!
Better be prepared
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 8:49 am
by Marcus
Oh, and Happy B'day Niks
S.B.B! L.N-I-D-M.W!
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 9:02 am
by Sputnik
S.B.B! L.N-I-D-M.W!
May may play well but are you a German?? Hmm, so is Dave is correct is not you winning then...
Who knows who that N is...or maybe we know him under a different name.
Sputnik
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 3:55 pm
by Skummy
Pariah: Yes cuz we all know the best players in the world are the Canadians!
Must be the long winters.
I know that my play in first person shooters deteriorated greatly after I moved out of Vermont...