I believe in press games it's FRT.

I would wager that F/G/T is the most common in gunboat.

Vaftrudner, any ideas?

I like that I've found my place in this community - stats whore.

The most common ménage à trois on this site is EFT. This is also true if we look at only press games. In gunboats, it's FGT, so point to Lando. Top 10 for both:

Regular games:

England France Turkey
339 draws
England France Italy Germany Austria Turkey Russia
306 draws
France Germany Turkey
200 draws
England Germany Turkey
185 draws
France Turkey Russia
139 draws
England France Austria Turkey
122 draws
England France
117 draws
England Italy Turkey
117 draws
Turkey Russia
116 draws
England France Austria
114 draws

Gunboats:

France Germany Turkey
88 draws
England France Turkey
76 draws
England France Italy Germany Austria Turkey Russia
48 draws
France Italy Russia
45 draws
France Turkey Russia
43 draws
England France Italy Germany Turkey Russia
40 draws
France Italy Turkey Russia
38 draws
France Italy Germany Turkey
37 draws
England France Italy Germany Turkey
36 draws
England France Turkey Russia
35 draws

Have some self respect! Call yourself stats-hussy or stats-harlot. Something classy.

Show us how to win as austria, you slut.

I'm a stats courtesan.

Most of the Austrian openings seem to vary between 6-8% wins. I have to refine the code more, but the most effective opening seems to be:

Vienna Move to Trieste - Trieste Move to Albania - Budapest Move to Serbia

I never found out how you make a E-F work successfully. In my opinion there's simply too much tension along the border to make a E-F work...

Not that hard, just stay out of EC and don't build fleets in Brest/Liverpool. And make sure that England gets a fair share of Germany.

Not the easiest alliance, but neither is it particularly hard.

But if England gets enough of Germany we are look at England having the edge position, France stuck in the middle, having to commit most of the forces in the south, and England's units having nothing to do. It never ends well I swear.

Turkey is dominant. This is something that doesn't come into the picture when we discuss country W/D/L stats. The average size of their draw. Turkey seems to be involved in just about every 3WD

Yes, the one thing that is constant in all my statistics is how ridiculously overpowered Turkey is.

Check out France! It was in all of the top 10 gb pairings and 7/10 press pairings. France and Turkey are monsters.

Turkey has more wins than France though, while France has more draws. Russia has the most wins in press games, but that falls to the ground immediately in gunboats where Russia is the worst performing country, 1% lower in wins than Austria.

A while back, I posted some stats on all of the tournament and league games as of Aug 2011

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FGT was the most common 3way.

The MOST common 3 way is when there are only 3 left. Duh!

Vaft, are your stats indicating that the 7way draw is in the top 3 for most common draws??

I would presume that's due to a large number of live games being drawn early due to a CD or something. I guess that's a sign of how general games are so heavily biased by CDs, etc.

I suppose that you could, using thee stats, figure out th average points per country in a 420/n scoring system. That could be interesting to use as a weightin system in tournaments.

yebellz, it's entirely from bad live games and such. It's not THAT common - 306 seven way draws in 27308 games. It's all the other draws that have small numbers, with so many possible combinations, none of them can reach a significant number.

Yonni, 420/n scoring system?

420 divided by the number of people in the draw. Really, you could use any scoring system. 420 is just a convenient number.

I'll look into it a bit later, but I could probably do that pretty quickly :)

Awesome. It's wonderful having our own little stats machine here.

Ah, I get it, it's the lowest number that's evenly divisible by 2-7.

Bingo

It's also a code number for cannabis, of course. That's my primary connotation. I wonder what happened to the nerd in me?

@VAft, could you run my numbers and tell me what my win ratio is for each country. I am not a stats guy, but like to look at them.

Czech wins:
E: 15.13%
F: 20.89%
I: 9.15%
G: 17.42%
A: 10.06%
T: 24.36%
R: 16.36%

Czech wins in WTA gunboats:
E: 10.87%
F: 20.65%
I: 10.11%
G: 19.10%
A: 5.43%
T: 22.35%
R: 9.89%

Overall: 13.97%

Thanks.

I should add that this is only correct up to April 8, when the database dump I'm working with was made. Anything else you want run? You're fun to research since you have such a significant sample size.

Can you do a win ratio per country. What I mean is if I am England x times, what is my % win in drawing England? Does that make sense? Can you do that for all 7 countries?

I'm not at all sure what you mean by that. But with the site's distribution, you've played every country roughly the same amount of times.

Czech times played:
E: 92
F: 92
I: 89
G: 89
A: 92
G. 85
R: 91

Ops, those were WTA gunboats. But it's true for regular games as well.

So, If I am E in WTA gunboat 92 times and I have a 10.87% win ratio I won approx. 9 games correct?

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Thanks

holy shit Czech, you played over 1000 games?

You don't get 21,000+ points by cutting box tops off of boxes of Sugar Smacks.

@Bob, actually, that's how MadMarx got his.

Mos common 3-way? Hmmm....King Atom, Abge...and a donkey?

<Abge - it's a JOKE...>