The Newbie Matrix6 stats thread (complete)
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Ircher He / Him / HisWhat A Grand IdeaHe / Him / His
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Ircher He / Him / HisWhat A Grand IdeaHe / Him / His
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Ether ♀Lyrical Rampage♀
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It's pointless to give the cop in a 9-player game three shots instead of keeping it infinite. The mafia neighborizer has no incentive here to play as anything but a goon, since confirming its role will just condemn it when a doctor or friendly neighbor flips (or when another player has been targetted by the friendly neighbor). I don't see what this set is really trying to offer.As I move my vote
Towards your wagon, town is taking note
It fills my head up and gets louder andLOUDER-
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Ircher He / Him / HisWhat A Grand IdeaHe / Him / His
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Town 2-Shot CopMafia 1-Shot NeighborizerTown DoctorFriendly NeighborTown JailkeeperMafia GoonMafia GoonTown 1-Shot NeighborizerTown Tracker
Same rules as before.
Trying to offer balanced setups around DayTalk.-
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Ircher He / Him / HisWhat A Grand IdeaHe / Him / His
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That Gives:
1. Town 2S Cop, Town Doc, Maf. 1-Shot Neighborizer
2. FN, Town JK, Mafia Goon
3. Town 1-Shot Neighborizer, Town Tracker, Mafia Goon
A: Town 2S Cop, FN, Mafia Goon
B: Town JK, Town 1S Neighborizer, Maf. 1S Neighborizer
C: Town Doc, Town Tracker, Mafia Goon-
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Ether ♀Lyrical Rampage♀
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The scum neighborizer still has no incentive to target anyone unless it already knows that the setup is Column B. If it's playing in Row 1 instead, then it's just confirming itself as scum for no good reason.
EDIT: (And even in Column B, it's picking a 1v1 with a town power role. It's not a strategy that'll get it to the end, it's just something it could do to stop the town neighborizer from being instantly confirmed. But that doesn't make it a good idea.)As I move my vote
Towards your wagon, town is taking note
It fills my head up and gets louder andLOUDER-
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Ircher He / Him / HisWhat A Grand IdeaHe / Him / His
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Town 2-Shot CopMafia 1-Shot RolecopTown DoctorFriendly NeighborTown JailkeeperMafia 1-Shot WatcherMafia 1-Shot RoleblockerTown 1-Shot NeighborizerTown Tracker
Same rules as before.
Trying to offer balanced setups around DayTalk.-
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Rob14 Jack of All Trades
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Quaroath Mafia Scum
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In post 0, Toomai wrote:Spoiler: Replacement vs. length stats
When 0 slots are replaced all game, games take 29.5 days with standard deviation of 10.80 (15 games)
When 1 slot is replaced all game, games take 36.6 days with standard deviation of 10.89 (48 games)
When 2 slots are replaced all game, games take 36.0 days with standard deviation of 12.82 (62 games)
When 3 slots are replaced all game, games take 39.5 days with standard deviation of 13.71 (62 games)
When 4 slots are replaced all game, games take 45.8 days with standard deviation of 13.96 (61 games)
When 5 slots are replaced all game, games take 47.0 days with standard deviation of 13.17 (36 games)
When 6 slots are replaced all game, games take 48.7 days with standard deviation of 13.89 (10 games)
When 7 slots are replaced all game, games take 61.5 days with standard deviation of 11.55 (3 games)
One game replaced 8 slots; it took 71.5 days
No games have had 9 slots replaced
I know I'm late to this, but I was the Ironman in Newbie 1664 that had eight replacements. That game burnt me on playing for a long while.
At least I won.One Hamster to rule them all!
One Hamster to find them!
One Hamster to bring them all!
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Toomai Goon
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A few people have PMed me about this so I'll answer here:
I haven't been updating the first post lately because I've decided to wait for all the newbie daytalk games to finish (which at this point is just 1688). Once that's done and I've outed the results, I'll begin updating this topic again.This should be required reading for...everyone for anything, really.-
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Davsto He/HimFarce of HabitHe/Him
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And now the neighbouriser is conftownIn post 181, Ircher wrote:Town 2-Shot CopMafia 1-Shot RolecopTown DoctorFriendly NeighborTown JailkeeperMafia 1-Shot WatcherMafia 1-Shot RoleblockerTown 1-Shot NeighborizerTown Tracker
Same rules as before.
Trying to offer balanced setups around DayTalk.
Honestly I feel like you're overcomplicating a setup which is designed to be an easy first setup to play in for the site. If I came to the site a complete newbie (as in not having played mafia ever before), having this be listed as the "newbie" setup and therefore logically one of the simpler setups onsite, this could potentially have turned me off from joining a game.-
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Ether ♀Lyrical Rampage♀
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To be fair, there's nothing wrong with a neighborizer being confirmed town. (But the rest I agree with, this just looks like a bunch of roles haphazardly thrown together.)
1688 is done. So not counting 1664, which ended prematurely, mafia won 17/19 of the first twenty games of the trial, and the second half was a perfect 50/50 split between mafia and town. I have no idea what the hell just happened.As I move my vote
Towards your wagon, town is taking note
It fills my head up and gets louder andLOUDER-
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mhsmith0 Balancing Act
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It's still interesting how flagrantly different rows 2 and 3 are from the rest, with setup A barely balanced as well. I wonder...
Could the RB and cop BOTH change to 2-shot? In setup B, the cop is often ID'd and dead by N3, so the third shot shouldn't really matter. But in setup 2, the cop's shots could last longer (presuming that a blocked check doesn't cost a shot).
And on the mafia side, you start to have a real decision to make whether to use the RB shots early, since JK is pretty OP in a small game (and RB pretty OP as a counter), while the cop is very dangerous to a mafia team if left unblocked early.
PS As discussed on the daytalk thread, I think that subbing UB for BP could help balance things out, since BP is basically useless (other than as a clear claim) on row 3 (since stopping just one shot doens't really mean anything anyway), and low usefulness on column A as well. OTOH subbing in a UB for BP probably means that the RB should NOT be a limited shot role, since then town gets kinda OP on setup A with JK/UB.Showhttp://wiki.mafiascum.net/index.php?title=Mhsmith0
Conq: you, sir, are great at being town.
BATMAN: Only jugg was the only one we didn’t scum read at least not me
Quick: There is little to no chance this slot is Power-Wolfing.
SR: I want to give him a day
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mhsmith0 Balancing Act
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Anyone interested in resurrecting the discussion over whether we should replace the 1-shot BP with a universal backup? Stats are pretty clear that the two BP setups (3 and A) have the lowest town win rates by a decent margin, and I suspect it's at least in part because:
1-shot BP claims can't do anything useful after being claimed, and especially after JK/tracker dies
people are policy lynching them because they can't do anything useful and are easy fake claims
If there's interest in getting town's win rate closer to 50%, then I think that boosting 3/A setups is worthwhile, and I'd think that subbing UB for the 1-shot BP is the best way to do it, especially in the tracker setup, where the BP really sticks out as not being useful excepting for a bit of WIFOM on whether or not there's a doc or a BP.Showhttp://wiki.mafiascum.net/index.php?title=Mhsmith0
Conq: you, sir, are great at being town.
BATMAN: Only jugg was the only one we didn’t scum read at least not me
Quick: There is little to no chance this slot is Power-Wolfing.
SR: I want to give him a day
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mhsmith0 Balancing Act
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Specifically, current stats, with the two BP setups bolded/enlarged for emphasis:
Setup Town Wins Scum Wins T%
1 (J) 29 33 46.8%
2 (RCD) 36 31 53.7%
3 (BT) 26 39 40.0%
A (JRB) 26 35 42.6%
B (C) 30 31 49.2%
C (DT) 28 35 44.4%
Total 175 204 46.2%Showhttp://wiki.mafiascum.net/index.php?title=Mhsmith0
Conq: you, sir, are great at being town.
BATMAN: Only jugg was the only one we didn’t scum read at least not me
Quick: There is little to no chance this slot is Power-Wolfing.
SR: I want to give him a day
Life is simply unfair, don't you think?-
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ironstove Mafia Scum
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Seems like bulletproof is a -EV power for town. I'm really not sure why this setup hasn't been updated or changed when these stats are available and showing what a terrible PR BP is.
If you want to boost the win rate of the BP setups (which are both hovering around 40%, grossly in mafia favor), I would suggest switching BP for a better PR or removing BP altogether and making it a VT slot. It seems like people try to make some big plays with BP which more times than not ends up benefiting mafia because it happens in newbies, or new players aren't sure of how to correctly play BP which requires strong reads of the game.
I have a theory that no BP is better than BP because you can look and compare the stats:
BP games have the lowest winrate
Other games with the PR mix i.e. jailer and tracker, both have a respective win rate that is higher without BP.
What would be a good suggestion for a PR?
My idea is to add oracle to the list of possible PRs on mafia scum i.e. you target a player at night, and if you are killed by mafia, you end up revealing the role of your target to the entire game.
Some people might argue this is too overpowered, but I think a strong PR is necessary to fix a setup that has such a horrible skew towards one side.
Another PR suggestion if we're picking from the normal pool would be watcher, gunsmith, innocent child, and/or 1-shot vigi.-
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Gamma Emerald AnySurvivorAny
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Toomai Goon
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There's been a lot of discussion over the BP, though for different reasons - a claim strategy was invented that was purported to break the game. But after the strategy was tried and it doesn't appear to have stuck, the imputus to change the role/setup has died somewhat.In post 190, ironstove wrote:Seems like bulletproof is a -EV power for town. I'm really not sure why this setup hasn't been updated or changed when these stats are available and showing what a terrible PR BP is.
It may be true that the two BP setups have the lowest town winrates. It's not ideal, but this doesn't mean it's inherently a bad thing that must be changed. The overall town winrate in the setup is still 45.9%; it's hard to do much better than that. So as long as no subsetup gets too much past 60%/40% (setup 3 is hovering at 39.7% right now), I think it's fine how it is.This should be required reading for...everyone for anything, really.-
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Ircher He / Him / HisWhat A Grand IdeaHe / Him / His
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mhsmith0 Balancing Act
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The scum replace out rate for I think all positions is much higher than the town rate. That said, an IC replace out rate of even 10% is incredibly disappointing.Showhttp://wiki.mafiascum.net/index.php?title=Mhsmith0
Conq: you, sir, are great at being town.
BATMAN: Only jugg was the only one we didn’t scum read at least not me
Quick: There is little to no chance this slot is Power-Wolfing.
SR: I want to give him a day
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Toomai Goon
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Z=-1.3832 and p=0.16758, so this isn't actually a statistically significant difference.In post 193, Ircher wrote:This feels like a possible issue -- the scum IC replace out rate is much higher (?) than the town IC replace-out rate.
I don't have a stat for this, but an eye test suggests that IC replaces come in waves; we get stretches of 20-30 games with none, than a bunch of 20 games with 3 or 4.In post 194, mhsmith0 wrote:That said, an IC replace out rate of even 10% is incredibly disappointing.This should be required reading for...everyone for anything, really.-
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chamber Cases are scummy
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Can you even think of a mechanism that would cause this? Might just be pattern matching noise.In post 195, Toomai wrote:I don't have a stat for this, but an eye test suggests that IC replaces come in waves; we get stretches of 20-30 games with none, than a bunch of 20 games with 3 or 4.Taking a break from the site.-
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mhsmith0 Balancing Act
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I'd bet that new ics replace out at a MUCH higher rate than experienced ones, so I'd guess it's related to new ics sometimes being approved in batches.Showhttp://wiki.mafiascum.net/index.php?title=Mhsmith0
Conq: you, sir, are great at being town.
BATMAN: Only jugg was the only one we didn’t scum read at least not me
Quick: There is little to no chance this slot is Power-Wolfing.
SR: I want to give him a day
Life is simply unfair, don't you think?-
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Toomai Goon
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It's over. The last Matrix6 game ended a few days ago, and the stats are now complete.
Overall? The setup was good. The faction winrate was 46:54, and each individual player coming in had a 47.7% chance to win. Sure, the isolated subsetups are less than ideal, and the BP was widely determined to be a problem. But as a coherent whole, it's hard to do much better than that.
I'll be putting up the 2d3 stats thread once it has 10 completed games.This should be required reading for...everyone for anything, really.
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