Imagine that Bob was driving home, and there was terrible traffic along the highway. Frustrated with the traffic, Bob takes an exit and stops in a parking lot, where he parks, changes his socks so that they’re on opposite feet, gets tired, and accidentally takes a three hour nap. When he wakes up, the traffic has disappeared. If Bob thinks the reason the roads are clear now is because he changed his socks, then Bob is you.
You don’t know that. You may as well have played the 8 games without the legendary and get the same matchups. You don’t know if this would happen but you immediately jumped on the first thing that confirmed your “suspicions”, without a second thought.
You didn’t buy anything!!!
If Blizzard can rig your matchs AND your draws, couldn’t they at least identify if you bought something or not?!
Yes.
No, i just saw an unhing AF post and thought “Man, WTF is this guy talking about”
Why did I play game after game over the past few days without seeing a single Big Spell Mage, then switched to Frost Mage and my first two games were against Big Spell Mage which is one of the bad matchups for Frost Mage?
You guys (referring to paranoid crowd) are gonna continue making yourselves crazy trying to queue into good match-ups, changing decks when you hit a wall of bad matchups. Ultimately you don’t control what you queue into. You can either try to figure out something statistically significant in the bracket where you are at, attempt to extrapolate it from a website, or maybe just play enough games in a meta until you have gained an intuition on the band of matchups you could face, and then tailor your decks in a balanced fashion to have the strongest confidence when queueing into anything in that intuition band.
And what are ‘too many coincidences happening consistently’ called, by the way?
PS ‘Correlation’, probably, but such words seem too big for some of the forum posters to know — educayshun tu stronk.
Indeed.
How it works in practice, though, often looks like this: you find yourself facing deck A in your top 100 legend, say, 90 times out of 100 (or get the stats from a website etc), so you switch to deck B that has a good match-up against A. The next 50 games you’re gonna be facing deck C, which is hopeless against A, but counters just your B. Of course, should you switch back, it’s all the A-s all over again. Oh, by that time you also might find yourself no longer in top-100, but that’s another story.
A talking ‘scrotie’ trying to explain something to anyone? I don’t think I’d like to see that happening.
The predominant ‘theory’ about it is that casinos generally fleece their patrons, so yes, you should be familiar with that.
I’ve already replied to that, but I think I’ll elaborate some more: the main reason it might help is that you can stop ‘tilting’, as they call it, which could eventually increase your winrate.
What that thread pointed out (as I understand it) was that, over time, similar archetypes will tend to clump together. Bee may very well have run into clumps of unfavorable archetypes, but won his way through them.
I certainly disagree with the “game is rigged” crowd, but there’s no need for name calling. Stop it.