Main source for this scheme is ( Dode 2017), but the bash/dash/hybrid/stunty categorization is widespread, for example at ( Breidr 2015), ( Amiral 2017) and ( Schlice 2018). Does the team roster have 4+ players with Agility skill access but Does the team roster have 4+ players with Strength skill access but Does the team roster have a lot of Stunty players and a few Big Guys with negatrait?.To formally classify a team we can use the follow decision tree, taking as input the most common roster choices for a team: The most common way to classify the 25-30 different Blood Bowl teams is to distinguish four categories: I made the match data (currently from August 2020 up to June 2022) publicly available in a Github repository. For a previous blog post that describes the process of scraping the data see here. 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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