I was fairly surprised my PvE team did so well. Why did my heuristics basically work?
How well do individuals do? Multiply. How well do teams do, relative to the product of their members? How well do individuals on a team do against the known opponents, pairwise? Okay try all teams, combine their “vs opponents” scores with “team coherence” scores, pick the max.
Finding how well teams did relative to how their individuals did let me accidentally pick just from balanced teams; asking how well individuals did against the known opponents got rid of Null and biased towards the 6s, 5s, and 1s. I think Maelstrom (Water 3) probably got on there because the team did really well in the data despite Maelstrom’s inclusion, which looked the same to me as Maelstrom synergizing well with the rest of the team.
I weighted “individuals vs opposing team” equal to “team synergy”; I wonder if I had left the weights as each individual = each other individual = team synergy, whether that would have correctly axed 2-4s while still axing Null? [tries] Nope, that lets Null in quickly.
Feedback: I liked this one a lot, in theory. I just found myself with less time than I wanted to actually engage. It had a latent structure that was definitely discoverable, but also definitely plenty obfuscated. Even with time constraints the barrier-to-entry was low enough that I could get something nice in pretty quickly. And the differences between individual, team, vs-that-team, and vs-any-team were interesting to mull over.
I was fairly surprised my PvE team did so well. Why did my heuristics basically work?
Finding how well teams did relative to how their individuals did let me accidentally pick just from balanced teams; asking how well individuals did against the known opponents got rid of Null and biased towards the 6s, 5s, and 1s. I think Maelstrom (Water 3) probably got on there because the team did really well in the data despite Maelstrom’s inclusion, which looked the same to me as Maelstrom synergizing well with the rest of the team.
I weighted “individuals vs opposing team” equal to “team synergy”; I wonder if I had left the weights as each individual = each other individual = team synergy, whether that would have correctly axed 2-4s while still axing Null? [tries] Nope, that lets Null in quickly.
Feedback: I liked this one a lot, in theory. I just found myself with less time than I wanted to actually engage. It had a latent structure that was definitely discoverable, but also definitely plenty obfuscated. Even with time constraints the barrier-to-entry was low enough that I could get something nice in pretty quickly. And the differences between individual, team, vs-that-team, and vs-any-team were interesting to mull over.