Who is the best Gencon Main Event Player?

[OEAO]

It's not really fair to be counting the results to 2009, as those included Day 1 wins in them. It kinda skews the data a bit.

[dok]

No, lonewolf's numbers didn't include day 1 results. I would have included day 1 results if he had, but AFAIK the day 1 results from those years aren't posted anywhere.

[OEAO]

Originally Posted by lonewolf

I decided to play around a little with the results I have from the last 4 years Gencon's and see if I could create a system to rank all of the players that made it to day 2 of the main event. Here is what I came up with.

Scoring.....some challenges here because there used to be only the top 8 make the second day, but there also used to be less people in the event also. You could go a lot of directions with this...here is what I decided.



With this scoring each person is listed below. With the top 3 being Spider Poison, MattsterTruckRally, & Rÿchean. Day 1 wins only includes years when a player advanced to the second day. I would include all day 1 wins, but I have no way to get that information. This list is sorted by points and then day 2 wins to resolve ties. If there is still a tie, day 1 wins is used to resolve. Here are the results...



Not being completely satisfied with this since many people can't attend Gencon every year, I put in the number of years attended and divided the points by this number to give an average number of points per event attended. My apologies if I didn't get the number of years you participated correct. I think that I have most of them right. This gives a different result, helping people who haven't attended every year and showing how well you did the years that you did attend. Matthias moves up to the third spot with this weighted method reflecting that he has only been in the main event once. This different methodolgy put the top 4 as Mattster, Lonewolf, Matthias, and Spider Poison.

The bold. And the 2nd and 3rd table has a column for Day 1 wins.

Edit: ahh I see what you mean, they aren't counted into the score.

[killercactus]

I'm hoping this year to take a break from Summoner Wars and play the Main Event again. I miss it.

[damja]

Nice necro @dok !

[Jexik]

Wow, #75. I thought I'd do a little better than that. Not counting day 1 success definitely changes it a little bit. The year I did make day 2 I went 5-0, back before the days of Reverse the Whip.* I mis-drafted for the first game of day 2, and got knocked out. I did poorly one year because I tried using Q10 (mistake). The other two years I think I was in the top 20 or close to it; at that point the difference between making day 2 and not is how many times the people that beat you went on to win. I think I've seen K-boom take 17th place because last name seemed to be one of the later tiebreakers. GG T's.

Thanks for putting in the work.

*I guess now going 5-0 with a strong army is less impressive, because all the people trying to win it all aren't drafting that way?

[dok]

The lack of day 1 results is somewhat limiting, although as you say they can be tricky to interpret in the RtW era. I could pretty much guarantee making day 2 every year these days, but I would probably lose within the first two rounds on day 2 every time (like I told Matt he would this year before the tournament started).

As I said, the bottom of the list isn't super-meaningful; it's not the worst players as much as "worst average day 2 results among players that have made day 2 at least once". Which is a kind of weird halfway measure.

Also, really, you're tied for #72. I know that makes you feel much better.

[dok]

I updated with 2015 results. Weesel jumps all the way to #8 with his win. Matthias leapfrogs Mantrainchoochoo and lonewolf into #5 with his second place finish. Deroche totally blew the curve on "Wins Above Deroche", but I'll leave the name anyway.

[Matthias Maccabeus]

Please feel free to remove my name from the list. When you play 20 chain fighters you obviously don't give a crap about winning.

[weesel99]

Originally Posted by Matthias Maccabeus

Please feel free to remove my name from the list. When you play 20 chain fighters you obviously don't give a crap about winning.

I've got a new respect for Sacred Band and Parmenio now though.

[Matthias Maccabeus]

Originally Posted by weesel99

I've got a new respect for Sacred Band and Parmenio now though.

Parmenio is the new metagame. I've just been biding my time before I let the public know that.

[weesel99]

I think I'm fine with being #8. All you need is a win to boost you up there I guess.