“Ok I’ve got 3 meeples left. What do I do now? Should I grab this tile to complete this city? Or add on to that road? Or should I try to surround another cloister? That’s where Carcassonne gets tough. With just a few meeple left, each decision is risky. And sometimes the board looks full … Read more

The stack of resources sits in your hand as you gaze upon the wonder board, and the sickening sensation of analysis paralysis washes over you. On one hand, you know you win VP for every building you build. On the other hand, you’re sacrificing wood and stone to do it. That wood and stone might … Read more

For tournaments, closeness in ranking causes tension. Match results don’t tell you much about what happend in the matches. On paper, 3 easy game wins might look the same as 3 narrow game wins. Game win percentage eliminates this noise and shows you a raw picture of who’s performing better. Simply input your stats into … Read more

If you’re three points adrift with five games to go, it feels as though that’s quite a margin, yet sometimes it tricks you into thinking something different. While the points total are a good indicator of how well you’ve done, it doesn’t take account of what happens in future matches… Nor does it include tiebreakers. … Read more

As any league enters its last few matches, there’s a particular type of panic that grips fans. A weather map becomes a scoreboard. Suddenly, the table no longer be a fixed list of teams. It becomes a place where fronts collide, pressure systems shift, and hour-by-hour movements change everything you thought you knew about where … Read more

Any good tabletop league knows that the drama doesn’t come from simply counting number of games won. Typically, the drama center around what those wins mean for your final seeding position. Sure, maybe you’re ahead of the team sitting second because you’ve beaten them more times, but maybe they had an awful draw while your … Read more

Every time someone finishes better in a local tournament then someone else who lost more matches, they ask the exact same question: “Why did you beat me? You’re lower than I am on the leaderboard.” Rarely is answer as simple as placement. More often, it’s a combination where a cap on the best results protects … Read more