League General Discussion Thread

[peirce]

@axis-dominion I got lucky that battle, no question. But the Sea Lion you complained so much about was a 97% battle in my favour. I was sure enough about winning it that I diverted a bomber to try to knock out the seaport at Gibraltar (which you shot down with your AA - your own luck). Frankly, I’d have readily traded the above-par result (~20 TUV above odds) in London for damaging that port any day. It allowed USA to threaten Germany and Italy at the same time for the rest of the game, which was huge. Far more than an extra couple of fighters.

You also got your own luck in plenty of battles, but I didn’t want to rub salt in the wound. The nature of the game is that one has to take risks - calculated risks - to win, and that’s what I did. But that final battle wasn’t a hail mary - it was a tactical choice to hobble the threat of the Russian/US advance in Eastern Europe.

[peirce]

@axis-dominion Ready when you are.

[gamerman01]

@Booper Unfortunately, total dice rolled throughout the game is misleading at best. So many of them had zero effect but are counted in Triple A stats. And even if they weren’t, the timing and place of the dice are what matter.

[Booper]

@gamerman01

Understood, but it goes to the overall fairness of the random dice generator, which seems to be operating fine.

[gamerman01]

Ah! Yes.

No disrespect was meant. Thanks for clarifying

[axis-dominion]

@peirce said in Post League Game Results Here:

@axis-dominion Ready when you are.

sorry i had stepped away, then fell asleep for a bit

yeah let’s do it. should be fun. game is recorded, so no effect on result, but we can continue on the thread.

take it away!

[peirce]

@axis-dominion Love it. Always seems a shame when a good match-up gets ruined by a brutal dicing. Happy to play this one out!

[axis-dominion]

@peirce said in Post League Game Results Here:

@axis-dominion Love it. Always seems a shame when a good match-up gets ruined by a brutal dicing. Happy to play this one out!

agreed, i was enjoying the game despite being behind a lot, felt allies at least had a chance.

[gamerman01]

Sleep on it realization:

Other than @Adam514 , every one of us has to admit we don’t know what it’s like to reach the mesosphere of 2200+

We’re a bit of a peanut gallery. Well, more than a bit.

[axis-dominion]

yeah adam and i keep swapping seats up there. since i’ve transitioned to ptv i am still figuring it out, and in the process i haven’t been able to progress to 2300 and beyond.

[axis-dominion]

the other factor being that it’s hard to make large gains once you’re up there

[axis-dominion]

and one bad dicing causes a rather large drop…

[axis-dominion]

so if i were to play 666 who’s the top E-ranker and win, i’d gain like 2 or 3 points. if i were to lose, i’d drop 29 or 30.

stakes are like an order of magnitude greater if i were to lose.

fun.

[gamerman01]

It’s kind of a bell curve, right? Yes, you get way up there in rare air, it’s hard to stay up. Did you want me to create tier D, then?

[gamerman01]

@axis-dominion said in Post League Game Results Here:

since i’ve transitioned to ptv i am still figuring it out,

That’s a big part of it, I suspect! You’re not 2200 dominant in PtV yet. You have a heel that wasn’t covered

[Arthur Bomber Harris]

@axis-dominion you are 500 ELO points better than 666. You should be winning 95% of the time against him, a player who has 46 wins and 45 losses, the definition of an average opponent. If you don’t think that you could have that type of odds then you aren’t a 2100+ player.

Top players often have to find meta settings to keep up their ranking, perhaps finding the sweet spot for ELO rank difference and have rules like Low Luck to minimize dicing. Or you could just play games and not care about ELO ranking if you find chasing top-positioning takes away from the enjoyment.

[axis-dominion]

so we’re continuing our game, and he just got 3/4 with his DD hits, that’s following a recent 4/4 DD hits. that’s 7/8 DD hits… what’s that, 1 in 400 odds? his luck is just too unreal

abh
666 is actually a fairly decently good player from the games i remember playing against him, so match would not be a walk in the park, all for almost no elo gain. add to that the ever present risk of dice disasters as happened with peirce, makes it way too risky, assuming i care a lot about my rating. in this case i know from experience playing him (unless he’s changed his approach, as it’s been a while) he’s not one of those that counts on luck to win, he genuinely tries to play the odds and gain advantages through positioning, so i think it’s worth playing him again.

[gamerman01]

This is not an argument to not care about your ELO.

I totally understand we’re competitive gamers and when we put a single number on our success it means a lot.

If it helps, remember that from the impersonal “league’s perspective” the top reasons for a rating, in order of importance to the league, is

#1 To maximize Fun
#2 During regular season, players have a good idea the strength of their prospective opponent. Helps a lot in choosing an opponent.
#3 Decently accurate playoff entry qualifications and seeding
#4 Great way to measure whether and how much you’re improving
#5 Sense of satisfaction, bragging rights, etc

[Stucifer]

I will say if I was playing PtV low luck I can’t imagine Axis would get a bid. I would definitely want a bid to play Allies. I believe with a 0 bid you can be at 100% odds for Sealion on G3 with a naval buy G1 (CV, DD, tp) and 11-transport buy G2.

That’s with UK bringing the Gibraltar + Malta fighter back and building 18 infantry + a fighter for London.

[Arthur Bomber Harris]

@axis-dominion Here is a breakdown of BM4 game results that I pulled from the results spreadsheet. Player 666 is 1 win and 20 losses for players with ELO above 1800. You should be able to beat him 95% of the time if he has not massively improved in recent times. ELO looks to be working in this instance.

Looking at your record (since 2020), you have a weakness against low ranked players and it wasn’t primarily due entirely to bad dice. Against the Simon (ELO 1394), you were distracted by other games and didn’t move additional planes to reinforce the main Russian stack, and he got a bit lucky in the 60/40 Bryansk battle that couldn’t be recovered from. Without that mistake it looked like you would have easily won the game. In the other noteworthy loss against me (ELO 1497), you could have easily won if you played more conservatively instead of offering battles which were dicey.

If you want to maximize your ELO ranking, the 1900+ ranged opponents is probably your sweet spot as the occasional blunders hurt you in the matches against inferior players. Sadly that only gives you 3 opponents who will help you improve or maintain your ranking. The challenges of being one of the best in the world…