King Of the Hill
This competition will pit T50 decks against eachother in a one-on-one matchup, to slowly find the best deck against T50 opponents. Now, most people say: "You can't compare decks in T50! T50 opponents change every day!". But I say, This is not True.
For the competition I will play both decks against T50. I will switch between decks every 10 games. This way if any changes occur in the T50 decks, it will affect the performance of both decks. I will play at least 100 games (unless one deck makes me very angry) for both decks, which should assure somewhat comparable statistics. The win/loss ratio and turns-to-win stats will be compared and one "king of the hill" deck will be crowned.
Post your deck if you wish to challenge the leading KOTH deck. Otherwise I will make my own pick.
*disclaimer* Please note that I am not playing 10,000 games with each deck, so it is possible that the worse deck can win a match-up. Also, if i say how your deck "sux SoO hard", plz forgive me
I quote your 1st post here. You say that you are looking at 2 criteria to determine the best deck against T50 opponents: win/loss ratio and turns-to-win stats. I'm pretty sure this part of the post has not changed since this study was started, if so forgive me. So from the outset, you collected data on win% and ttw, which validates this claim.
Recently you 'changed the rules' to look at all parameters instead of only win%, but I thought, and your 1st post claims, that you were doing this all along. The title of the study backs up this notion 'KOTH (slowly finding the best T50 deck)'. Having 2 KOTH would serve little purpose as this study is to find the best deck versus T50. This study is a novel idea as no one before has studied how well decks perform versus T50. I hope you test many more decks versus the T50 in the future.
Ultimately where issues lie is that we all have a difference oppinion how to interpret the results. What exaclty makes the best T50 deck? That question has a different answer for many people. It all depends on what the person is looking to do. Most T50 farmers are looking to get rares as fast as possible. Some people even skip non farms. These people would want the fastest deck possible to get their rares efficiently; one that wins fast and also loses fast. The next large group of people is those who shun the fg's and play T50 for electrum. If there is a good number of farms out, the electrum for t50 can exceed that from the fg's while actually netting you positive score. These people also want a fast deck, but would be worried about win % as well. Before AI3 EM decks were in vogue, T50 was a decent place to farm score, however at the moment, score is more of an afterthough.
So rares, speed, electrum (after selling rares), and win % are the most important factors to the average joe T50 farmer in probably that order.
Looking solely at win% tells only a small portion of the picture when examining a decks performance, especially versus T50. If you only have 1 data parameter available, then by all means use that for analysis. When you have say 5 parameters to look at use all the data you have to make your case.
I am not attacking you or your study; I am rather trying to help you develop a an acurate and maningful scientific study. Look at it as a thesis defence of sorts. Keep up the good work.