Prospectus Math
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subplotkudzuHere are the scores and analysis of the voting.
With nine games and 13 voting players the matrix is a little big to post here, so I'll summarize. I had several players give a highest vote of "3" to multiple games, so every game had someone marking it with their highest rating. Saturday at the Bijou was the first to go, since Cambias was the only one to give it a highest mark. It also had the lowest combined number of points. Obviously not a keeper.
Pendragon was the next one cut. Bec and40yearsagotodayhad both high marked it, but with a spate of other low scores it wasn't going to make the cut.
Ghostbusters met a similar fate. It wasashacat's sole top choice and one of Dave's 3s, but it too lacked a lot of support.
The last easy call was Atlantis! it did better than I thought it might, but it was still only a top pick forkriz1818and 40YAT, so I let it go. Maybe some other year.
That left the following: Hufflepuff & Ravenclaw (HR), Flight of the Atlas (FA), Blood of the Gods (BG), League of your Own (LO) and House of the Dragon (HD)
HD had the highest number of top rankings, the highest number of combo points and, most importantly, it was the only option left that either Ashacat ornetcurmudgeonhad rated over a 1. So that was a lock. It was also Dave's last top pick, so I slotted him there.
BG got booted out then - it had a solid showing with 4 top rankings, butladegardhad marked both it and HD as marginal, whereas the other 3 contenders were better fits for him.
FA was also closed down. While it was the top pick for 2 players and one of the places where Bec settled, 40YAT marked it poorly, and Bec had said that she'd be more able to make games with her husband (and an outside babysitter) than on her own.
That left the following structure
HR LO HD
Netcurmudgeon 0 1 3
Ashacat 1 1 2
40YAT 0 2 3
Bec 0 1 4
Rachel 4 0 2
Christina 3 3 3
John 1 3 2
Jason 4 4 2
evynrude 3 1 2
kriz1818 2 3 2
ladegard 4 3 1
Cambias 3 3 1
Dave 2 2 3
I know that I need to keep HD - for 3 of the players it's the only non-marginal option. So Netcurmudegon, Ashacat and Dave go there, along with Bec and 40YAT. That's 5 players, but all 4 of the new parents!
If I close HR I get an even balance of 19 points per game: Christina, John, Jason, Kriz1818, Lagedard and Cambias in LO and everyone else in HD. Alas HD already holds all 4 new parents and Rachel, whom I know with our own toddler will be intermittent at the table in any session. That means that some months could well be just evynrude and Dave. That feels small and unworkable.
If I close LO I get 18 points in HR (Rachel,evynrude, Jason, Ladegard and Cambias) and 22 in HD. Christina goes in HD over HR since she and John asked to play together. As a mom of twins she's also iffy for a whole session, but I can now rely on Dave, Kriz1818 and John as being reliably at the table. I now have somewhere between 3 and 8 players in this game, but at least it's got a reliable quorum.
Going with the HR game also boosts my numbers some Cambias and I had discussed inviting his 11 year old daughter into the game if it was voted in. She's a Potter fan and wants to game (with people other than elven ranger obsessed bloodthirsty 10 year old boys who make up her current group). And I need to get accustomed to gaming for children. So that game actually has 6 players, with a reliable core of 4.
One problem is I really wanted to get John, Ladegard and Dave into one group, as John is looking for players who might have more time and inclination for a Rolemaster game later and those two are the best bet. Alas, that didn't work out.
The final problem wasevynrudewanting to play with Christina and John. No slotting supported that. If I moved her out of HR to HD then LO becomes a better selection, which was preferred by Christina and John over HD! If I move all three of them to LO then evynrude is in a game she rated a 1 and the HD game ends up with a reliable core of 1 player - Dave. If I move the 3 of them to HD then the HD game becomes even more overloaded with a max of 9 players, meaning that Rachel would probably opt to bow out to save my sanity and not game - not ideal, because I want my wife to get to game more. If I move all three of them to HR then that game is overloaded with 9 players (counting the little Miss Cambias), John's in a marginal choice and the HD game is back down to a core of 2 - Kriz1818 and Dave. Fortunately, evynrude didn't press the issue, as my mind would have exploded.
It's been an interesting experiment so far, and I have intermingled the groups some. We'll see how it works out in play over the next 6 months.
Pendragon was the next one cut. Bec and
40yearsagotodayhad both high marked it, but with a spate of other low scores it wasn't going to make the cut. Ghostbusters met a similar fate. It was
ashacat's sole top choice and one of Dave's 3s, but it too lacked a lot of support. The last easy call was Atlantis! it did better than I thought it might, but it was still only a top pick for
kriz1818and 40YAT, so I let it go. Maybe some other year. That left the following: Hufflepuff & Ravenclaw (HR), Flight of the Atlas (FA), Blood of the Gods (BG), League of your Own (LO) and House of the Dragon (HD)
HD had the highest number of top rankings, the highest number of combo points and, most importantly, it was the only option left that either Ashacat or
netcurmudgeonhad rated over a 1. So that was a lock. It was also Dave's last top pick, so I slotted him there. BG got booted out then - it had a solid showing with 4 top rankings, but
ladegardhad marked both it and HD as marginal, whereas the other 3 contenders were better fits for him. FA was also closed down. While it was the top pick for 2 players and one of the places where Bec settled, 40YAT marked it poorly, and Bec had said that she'd be more able to make games with her husband (and an outside babysitter) than on her own.
That left the following structure
HR LO HD
Netcurmudgeon 0 1 3
Ashacat 1 1 2
40YAT 0 2 3
Bec 0 1 4
Rachel 4 0 2
Christina 3 3 3
John 1 3 2
Jason 4 4 2
evynrude 3 1 2
kriz1818 2 3 2
ladegard 4 3 1
Cambias 3 3 1
Dave 2 2 3
I know that I need to keep HD - for 3 of the players it's the only non-marginal option. So Netcurmudegon, Ashacat and Dave go there, along with Bec and 40YAT. That's 5 players, but all 4 of the new parents!
If I close HR I get an even balance of 19 points per game: Christina, John, Jason, Kriz1818, Lagedard and Cambias in LO and everyone else in HD. Alas HD already holds all 4 new parents and Rachel, whom I know with our own toddler will be intermittent at the table in any session. That means that some months could well be just evynrude and Dave. That feels small and unworkable.
If I close LO I get 18 points in HR (Rachel,
evynrude, Jason, Ladegard and Cambias) and 22 in HD. Christina goes in HD over HR since she and John asked to play together. As a mom of twins she's also iffy for a whole session, but I can now rely on Dave, Kriz1818 and John as being reliably at the table. I now have somewhere between 3 and 8 players in this game, but at least it's got a reliable quorum. Going with the HR game also boosts my numbers some Cambias and I had discussed inviting his 11 year old daughter into the game if it was voted in. She's a Potter fan and wants to game (with people other than elven ranger obsessed bloodthirsty 10 year old boys who make up her current group). And I need to get accustomed to gaming for children. So that game actually has 6 players, with a reliable core of 4.
One problem is I really wanted to get John, Ladegard and Dave into one group, as John is looking for players who might have more time and inclination for a Rolemaster game later and those two are the best bet. Alas, that didn't work out.
The final problem was
evynrudewanting to play with Christina and John. No slotting supported that. If I moved her out of HR to HD then LO becomes a better selection, which was preferred by Christina and John over HD! If I move all three of them to LO then evynrude is in a game she rated a 1 and the HD game ends up with a reliable core of 1 player - Dave. If I move the 3 of them to HD then the HD game becomes even more overloaded with a max of 9 players, meaning that Rachel would probably opt to bow out to save my sanity and not game - not ideal, because I want my wife to get to game more. If I move all three of them to HR then that game is overloaded with 9 players (counting the little Miss Cambias), John's in a marginal choice and the HD game is back down to a core of 2 - Kriz1818 and Dave. Fortunately, evynrude didn't press the issue, as my mind would have exploded. It's been an interesting experiment so far, and I have intermingled the groups some. We'll see how it works out in play over the next 6 months.
