The Oracle of Blood Bowl
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2018 9:26 am
An excellent way to waste time is the Oracle of Bacon, which automates the Kevin Bacon game. The game is to test your knowledge of movies and actors by guessing the shortest link for various actors to Kevin Bacon. For example, according to the Oracle, Arnold Schwarzenegger was in "Twins" with Maury Chaykin, who was in "Where the Truth Lies" with Kevin Bacon. This gives him a Bacon Number of two. Denise Richards was in "Wild Things" with Kevin Bacon, this gives her a Bacon Number of one.
We can play the same game with Blood Bowl! Based on Games Played. For example, I've played Tojurub several times, most recently at "Royal RumBBL V". Tojurub has a "rolo Number" of 1. I've never played Sann, but he played against Kithor at "Eurobowl 2017", who played against me at "Ghostbowl 18". So Sann has a "rolo Number" of 2 (and by definition, I have a "Sann Number" of 2 also).
Too bad Kevin Bacon doesn't (as far as we know) play Blood Bowl.
Obviously there are some Blood Bowl "islands" in the NAF database, closed groups of coaches who only play each other in tournaments with no connection to the outside Blood Bowl world. But thanks to some heavily globetrotting coaches, I suspect that most of the Blood Bowl community is "Linked", one way or another.
Who is the "Farthest" link to yourself which you can find? Naturally, it's difficult when doing this by hand. But the fun part is seeing how closely you're connected to even coaches who live far away!
The Oracle of Bacon also calculates the Center of the Hollywood Universe, the actor with the lowest average "number" of all actors in the IMDB. It's not who you think. There's a link there to the top 1000 most connected actors.
Who is "The Center of the Blood Bowl Universe"?
We can play the same game with Blood Bowl! Based on Games Played. For example, I've played Tojurub several times, most recently at "Royal RumBBL V". Tojurub has a "rolo Number" of 1. I've never played Sann, but he played against Kithor at "Eurobowl 2017", who played against me at "Ghostbowl 18". So Sann has a "rolo Number" of 2 (and by definition, I have a "Sann Number" of 2 also).
Too bad Kevin Bacon doesn't (as far as we know) play Blood Bowl.
Obviously there are some Blood Bowl "islands" in the NAF database, closed groups of coaches who only play each other in tournaments with no connection to the outside Blood Bowl world. But thanks to some heavily globetrotting coaches, I suspect that most of the Blood Bowl community is "Linked", one way or another.
Who is the "Farthest" link to yourself which you can find? Naturally, it's difficult when doing this by hand. But the fun part is seeing how closely you're connected to even coaches who live far away!
The Oracle of Bacon also calculates the Center of the Hollywood Universe, the actor with the lowest average "number" of all actors in the IMDB. It's not who you think. There's a link there to the top 1000 most connected actors.
Who is "The Center of the Blood Bowl Universe"?
