At least until the silly bots start getting eliminated ASTB is indeed only a small boost for MeasureBot, but MeasureBot is still only a small detriment to ASTB (currently about 4% of ASTB’s matches). ASTB also gets near-perfect performance against most of the silly bots, and it plays a combination of invert and tit-for-tat against anything it can’t simulate. I expect ASTB to continue doing fairly well against the rest of the pack despite MeasureBot’s exploitation of it (I think ASTB is around 9th place right now).
As more of the silly bots get eliminated, I think ASTB will transfer most of it’s population-share to MeasureBot, but that might take some time unless MeasureBot gets a large enough early lead to become a significant proportion of ASTB’s matches.
It looks like MeasureBot does really well against the silly bots:
0bot, 1bot and 2bot—it assumes after 3 repeated opponent turns of less than 3 that their next turn will be the same and takes advantage accordingly.
Folds to 3-bot (and similar attackers) until round 10 (as multicore says, this seems like a good idea)
TFT & Invert Bots—I think it probably ends up getting something just under 250:250 which is as good as possible
Weird stuff not specifically programmed—it works out if the opponent is crazy and then does its best to account for that, playing a max of 2
I think this is more significant than dominating AbstractSpyTreeBot 500-0 at the moment as they should only be meeting 2% of the time?
At least until the silly bots start getting eliminated ASTB is indeed only a small boost for MeasureBot, but MeasureBot is still only a small detriment to ASTB (currently about 4% of ASTB’s matches). ASTB also gets near-perfect performance against most of the silly bots, and it plays a combination of invert and tit-for-tat against anything it can’t simulate. I expect ASTB to continue doing fairly well against the rest of the pack despite MeasureBot’s exploitation of it (I think ASTB is around 9th place right now).
As more of the silly bots get eliminated, I think ASTB will transfer most of it’s population-share to MeasureBot, but that might take some time unless MeasureBot gets a large enough early lead to become a significant proportion of ASTB’s matches.