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Innovation General Discussion / isotropic stuttering?

« on: April 10, 2013, 10:20:47 am »

Has anyone else noticed isotropic having several second pauses when no player input is needed?
It seemed to start a few days ago for me.

At first I thought maybe it was intended to stop the information leaks, but the times when it happens don't seem to make sense for that purpose.

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Innovation General Discussion / Opening Meld Statistics

« on: April 09, 2013, 11:13:39 am »

All the brouhaha over the value of writing got me curious.
Some numbers on initial melds (data from march, usual caveats apply, N ~ 16000)

Initial meld popularity:


EDIT: once more, with errorbars
Winningness (# won) / (# won + # lost) - 0.5:


Of course this may be inaccurate due to skill effects, when there is more data it will be interesting to rerun this broken down by player level.

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Innovation General Discussion / Some achievement stats

« on: March 27, 2013, 12:30:00 pm »

People talking about the relative values of achievements got me wondering, so here's some quick and dirty calculations.
Data taken from the first 3 weeks of march, there will be some errors as I didn't bother figuring out how to exclude Echoes and solitaire games, but hopefully minor.
Total number of games was 13108.

Probability a player wins given they achieve a particular achievement [p = (# games where winner has X)/(# games where winner or loser has X)]:


Same data, grouped into 4 categories:


Which achievement the winner took first: