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In the last post we saw that the overall rifle-rocket ratio hasn't changed significantly, but this season did see a decrease in builds using 1:1 and a corresponding increase in builds with roughly six or more rifles to rockets. In the next graph we can see that this increase in high rifle count game...

Earlier we touched on the impact of queue limits on static defences, but I also wanted to quickly cover infantry. We can see that there was a significant drop in the average number of rifles and rockets queued this season, with rifles dropping from 200 last season to 160 this season, and rockets dro...

There are various ways of grouping build orders and I've never found something I'm completely happy with. This shows five extensions of double ref - delayed SD, standard SD timing, everything else with standard WF timing, ref sell and all other double ref (predominantly this is when playing triple r...

One of the most controversial balance changes pre-season was the introduction of queue limits. The general consensus post-season seems to be that they were high enough to avoid being painful during the game (especially when compared with the limits used in the Red Alert Experimental League). In my o...

Tech building usage has remained fairly constant over the past few seasons. There was a dip in radar tech and above when compared with last season, but it was still within the same ballpark we've seen since Season 12. 002_TechBuildingUsage.png The next graph shows the win rate of tech buildings when...

Looking at the individual subfactions and again restricting to the Any vs Any matches then we get roughly 25-50 matches per subfaction. In this graph we'd expect Russia and Ukraine to have been played similar numbers of games, and the Allied factions a little bit lower (since the game chooses the fa...

Season 17 saw a similar number of players as recent seasons, and this resulted in a similar number of matches being played. 001_GamesPerSeason.png Looking at the raw performance of Allies and Soviets shows one of the worst balanced seasons ever - 56.4% of games being won by Allies. This is just marg...

The statistics from Season 16 are available here: https://forum.openra.net/viewtopic.php?f=85&t=21953 Faction Win Rates Faction Win Rate From Any From Random A/S Picked Win Rate England 41/ 77 53% 34/ 55 62% 0/ 1 0% 7/ 21 33% France 43/ 64 67% 31/ 44 70% 1/ 4 25% 11/ 16 69% Germany 39/ 77 51% 24/ 49...

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tttppp/ragl/master/docs/img/logo.png Rulebook Registrations Map Making Contest Schedule Weekly Highlights Standings Standings and Statistics Here are the final tables from Season 17 with head-to-head results and strikes taken into account. Upps' victory over sir in...

Week 10 Fazzz vs Gargamel (Grand Final) The final four were not able to organise their matches during Week 9, so the last two matches were played in Week 10 instead. The Grand Final was cast live on milkman's stream. Cast by milkman: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2642706674 Game 1: https://tinyurl.c...

Week 8 Fazzz vs sir123 (Semi-final) The first of semi-final was between Fazzz (1st) and sir (4th). Despite sir, Gargamel and Upps all finishing the group stage on 15 points, then the head-to-heads between them resulted in sir finishing below the other two. Fazzz and sir split their group stage matc...

Week 7 Master's Match of the Week Going into the start of this week the top six players each had between 11 and 15 points. Fazzz and sir were the top two players, and each only had a single match left. In order to claim the top spot then sir needs to win more games against Upps than Fazzz does agai...

Week 6 Master's Match of the Week At the start of the week Fazzz had already qualified for playoffs, and looked extremely likely to be joined by sir (I think there was a weird edge case where sir could have been pushed out in a four-way tie on 15 points). The remaining two places could go to Upps, ...

Week 5 Master's Match of the Week For most of the week I had a different match as my highlight of the week, but with just a few hours to go until the end of the week then Mo and Sigil squeezed in their match. Despite this being the ninth season that both have played in, the algorithm has almost alw...

Week 4 Master's Match of the Week There were only three matches played in Masters this week, and my pick for the highlight was this match between the top two players from Ladder . Both players are very likely to get a spot in playoffs, so we might see this match repeated at a later date. Gargamel v...