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How do I find a particular game given the game number? I’ve been trying to understand the high bids in OOB Global tourney games over here, which are so different from what I’m used to. So now I used the spreadsheet to see the tourney results, and it shows the game ID numbers for the tourney games, but with that I still have trouble actually finding that particular game thread so I can get the save from it and really look it over. Manually looking through the long list of threads hasn’t worked, the sites’ search features hasn’t worked, nor has googling this site worked.

I’m trying to better understand the exact causes of the bid here being so much higher than I’m used to. I’ve already read what google threads I could find on the topic, some here, and some elsewhere; I’m trying to get a fairly precise and quantified understanding of how the advent or lack of particular strategies and tactics affects the bid.

One particular question I’m wondering about is the extent to which a J1 dow vs later J dows affect the bid need, if they make any difference.

I’ve noted the bid history seems to show a significant increase over the years, and I suspect that at least to an extent the win chances by side weren’t that much more lopsided then compared to now; which would mean that the shifting of the bid over time was in part a result of improved strategies and tactics over the years that favored axis moreso than the previous developments did. So I’m wondering if anyone remembers which particular shifts caused notable changes in results.

I’m also interested in looking at the very best tourney games, and in particular ones which showcase KJF strats, as that’s what my own area trends towards. So if anyone has particular games they’d recomend that’d be helpful. Ones that are also quite evenly matched skill-wise to limit confounding factors.

Does the net axis advantage vary significantly by skill level? that is is the bid needed higher at higher elo compared to lower elo?

Which particular planned allied strats have been proven to fail a lot? It’s always quite helpful to understand the history of those, and I’m not so aware of those.

Thank you; now is there a way to get the game number from the player query tool? Not all the tourney games had a game number listed in the playoffs tab, so I searched them in the player query, but while that lists the game results and data, I can’t find the game number in it.

I suppose I should at least consider trying async play if it’s the only way to get the data I want, to assess how onerous it is or isn’t.

It is a rather small pool indeed, maybe once the changes are put in that makes it easier to extract game IDs from the elo table tools it’ll be easier to find enough examples to look through.

Do any of the major live tournaments still use Global 1940? I’m tryin to search for them but all I’m finding is ones that use 1942 or House Rules expansion.

While it’s not at all necessary for me, I do wonder how well less proficient users could get to the game link from the game number; I’m not familiar with what google forms can do and allows, but also having a hyperlink column, in addition to the game number column, or just a copyable piece of text which has the web address, might make it easier for such users to get to the game thread. Not sure if enough people would be helped by that to be worthwhile, though it should be fairly simple to code on a spreadsheet.