vS Data Reaper Report #302

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@Scr0tieMcB-1291

The number of games recorded is NOT directly representative of the play rate of a deck.

I do understand this. I was just using available data that was not my personaly play data.

@Scr0tieMcB-1291

In VS Report #302, Handbuff Paladin was in a D type situation. The deck was between 4% and 5% popularity with the overall playerbase, and BELOW those numbers in popularity for players who had the tracker software installed — for example, in Legend overall, Handbuff Paladin had 4.09% overall popularity but only 2.91% tracker player popularity, therefore coming in at 3.5% of overall games played within the sample.

The tracker side of data is marred by selection bias. Best practice is to only look at opponent side data for overall deck popularity. You don’t accomplish this by counting games played. Games played is essentially a 50/50 mix of good opponent side data and contaminated tracker side data.

Could not have said it better myself.