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An Analytical Approach to Valuing Cards – Part 2 of n (Bases!)

Sorry to have kept you waiting so long for part 2 of this series, but I figured I’d be on the same publishing schedule as the Megahaulin podcasts 😊

If you haven’t read part 1 of this series (or if you don’t remember what all it said), you should start with that article.  Trust me, it’s really good.

This article uses the same methodology as part 1, with the difference being that bases are now included in the dataset for a more wholistic view of the Start Realms universe.

Let’s Get Right To It

Blockade Runner, darling of the ships-only analysis, has been dethroned!  Long live Brain World!

An Analytical Approach to Valuing Cards – Part 1 of n

Over the last month or two or three, I’ve been inspired to grow my skills with the analysis program R.  As I thought through what kind of project/dataset I could use to hone those skills, I had 2 options: work related stuff or Star Realms related stuff.  You know how that went:

The specific analytical toolset I had used elsewhere and wanted to learn in R is a multiple regression analysis.   And to get this party started, the question I’m trying to explore is: how can we objectively quantify the value of cards?

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Let’s Hunt Unicorns

Everything you need to know about the Unicorn Format

By Cory Thomas (IGN corybear88 and known on the Facebook as Daisy Tom)

Why is it called unicorn?

A unicorn is a rare and mythical creature.  Winning a star realms game by completing missions on your first 3 turns is a rare event (possibly also mythical, but that’s debatable).  So winning on your first 3 turns via missions was called a unicorn, and the name has stuck. 

Feel free to #blamePolites for this interlude in the lesson to see what it looks like when a unicorn is bagged.

#blamePolites

What is the format?

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