I have a couple pet projects that I want to do involving commander, but I can't do it alone. I have a lot of people in my playgroup that are willing to help, but I would like to get data and opinions from other playgroups. If there is anything here that you would like to help with, or something you would like to see, let me know. If enough people want to help, I'll make new topics for them.
Commander banlist tryoutsI'm done with talking about what cards should go on the banlist. I want to determine what can safely come off. If
Protean Hulk was allowed off, then I'm sure there are other things. But just because these cards would be fine in my playgroup, does not mean it's good for everyone.
I want a wide variety of metas to test the cards on the banlist, and see which cards are safe to come off. Soren 841, I was hoping that you and I would test these among cEDH groups, and push these cards to their limit. We'll be judging the cards based on power. Anyone else that wants to help can test these cards in their own meta, to see if these cards are fine at the casual level. This is going to be more opinion based than stats based, just report how you feel about these cards. And if anyone has experience with some of these cards already I'd love to hear it.
Deck PowerlevelA few months ago we wouldn't shut up about deck powerlevels. I'm bringing this discussion back, with less Dragon Ball references this time around.
Judaspriester and dexflux worked on a Commander Powertable found here:
https://deckstats.net/forum/index.php/topic,49777.0.htmlThis is more than just a starting point. We can turn this into a powerlevel calculator. One of the issues that this power table had was that it put equal weight on all criteria. Having a good land base was just as good as having a good combo; which of course isn't true. Fortunately, I have the solution: a multiple linear regression. It can figure out what the weights for each criteria is, and then when we insert the qualities of a given deck, the calculator will churn out a rating from 1 to 10.
In order to get this off the ground, I need decks with a definitive power level. What decklist is a 10? What decklist is a 1? Once we get enough decks together with defined power levels, I can do the multiple linear regression, and we'll finally be able to determine powerlevels.
I am not looking forward to the stats work this involves.
Stats 101I feel like this one will generate the least amount of interest, but I'll suggest it anyway. Is anyone interested in learning statistics and probabilities that are relevant to MTG?
I could start a topic that would show things like base probability, hypergeometric probability, and data gathering. It wouldn't be a full university-style stats course, I would just be going over the stuff that is relevant to us. If ever you've wanted to do some of the stats stuff I often do, let me know.