OT: Game Theory/Statistics

[douglas]

Only if you're willing to accept 25 tokens in the rematch.

[geoschmo]

That's the one Spoon. Thank you.

[AngleWyrm]

After reading this, I did a Mathematica notebook on the game. A set of strategies S={ {...}, {...} ...} where each is a list of ten integers, describing a player's troop allotment across ten territories. For a score function, I counted the number of territories that a player has more troops in than the other guy. Comparing each strategy against the set (107 in my set), the result looks like this:



Number of times a player won each amount of territories with their strategy. Some strategies won more territory than others. The total number of territories won, by strategy index number:

[AngleWyrm]

Edit: Much longer analysis notebook

[narf poit chez BOOM]

So, uh, best strategy?

[spoon]

The type of game geo is talking about is called a "blotto" game. Here's a site that talks a bit about it and lists out the results of a game played with a bunch of people...

Colonel Blotto

Space Empires can feel a bit like a blotto game when you are defending multiple wormholes against multiple aggressors.

[Yimboli]

does that mean i can do blotto emergency build and get 150 tokens instead of 100?