This was the most fun I’ve had analysing data and writing code probably ever. Unfortunately I missed the previous editions, but I’m looking forward to the next one. If I had played the previous ones, I might have steered further away from trying to explain effects by complex interactions that are common in this sort of card game in favour of simpler interactions that are more likely to be put into this sort of ruleset (for example things having one combat-relevant stat instead of two).
Because this was such a blast to play around with, I don’t really have any specific things I would change. The way the decks in the dataset were generated, along with the datasets size, made it easy to check how some specific decktype did in general, but hard to check how it did against some other specific decktype, which seems like the perfect middleground.
I really appreciate the work that was put into the theme, letting me roleplay as Kaiba playing children’s card games and trying to win using the power of arcane computer analysis tools.
This was the most fun I’ve had analysing data and writing code probably ever. Unfortunately I missed the previous editions, but I’m looking forward to the next one. If I had played the previous ones, I might have steered further away from trying to explain effects by complex interactions that are common in this sort of card game in favour of simpler interactions that are more likely to be put into this sort of ruleset (for example things having one combat-relevant stat instead of two).
Because this was such a blast to play around with, I don’t really have any specific things I would change.
The way the decks in the dataset were generated, along with the datasets size, made it easy to check how some specific decktype did in general, but hard to check how it did against some other specific decktype, which seems like the perfect middleground.
I really appreciate the work that was put into the theme, letting me roleplay as Kaiba playing children’s card games and trying to win using the power of arcane computer analysis tools.