We use match performance data from where Blood Bowl 2020 can be played online. (Fun fact: a hundred years ago, people already “shaded matrices” but did not call it a heatmap yet ( Wilkinson and Friendly 2009).) This allows patterns to emerge visually, and deviations on the patterns are also easy to spot. Heatmaps are a graphical representation of the data, with for example darker colors representing higher numbers. Using data analysis, we can cluster teams that have similar (average) match performance statistics and graph the data using heatmaps. In addition, Blood Bowl coaches must assemble and paint their playing pieces themselves, making it a creative hobby as well.įor this blog post, we have a look at similarities and differences between the different Blood Bowl 2020 teams, and see where the newly introduced Black Orc and Khorne teams fit in. For example, in chess both players play with the same pieces, but in Blood Bowl, almost 30 different teams (e.g. orcs, elves, etc) are available to choose from, each team with different skills that require different playing styles.
Blood Bowl is a board game that can be summarized as “fantasy-chess-with-dice”, but this would hardly do the game justice. In this post we’ll graph the numbers from the Blood Bowl Fantasy football game, and see what patterns emerge.
“If you graph the numbers of any system, patterns emerge” is one of my favorite movie quotes (from Darren Aronofsky’s cult movie about mathematics \(\pi\) (“pi”)).
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