Art De La Guerre

Been messing about with forum topics, posts & player numbers:

https://images.vexillia.me.uk/2026/20260215_ADLG_forum_&_players.png

For some reason this won't post as an image. Grr!

Basically all it’s going to achieve therefore is to slow the aggregate time take for a game-ending decision to be reached in the resolution of combats, and do so by a smidge across the duration of a ...

Some competitions (usually in continental Europe) allow a flat three re-rolls during the game.

The 'one per corp' or 'three per army' sounds about right.
As it turns out, just such a mechanism is ...

I saw this elsewhere:

I know this will go down like a cup of cold sick, but I have suggested you have the option of x amount of times a game you can call a review (much like in cricket) basically ...

[url=https://blog.vexillia.me.uk/2025/12/analysing-adlg-player-numbers.html]Full write up.

FYI the BHGS rankings don’t include events held in Ireland.

Are there any in NI?

Ta.

There are 29 players from Ireland with an ADLG ELO number.

This is a deliberate omission, as Ireland is not part of Great Britain, and so falls outside of the remit of the BHGS.
Seems sens ...

I'd hoped to have added the final piece to the jigsaw with a further analysis of the impact of new and returning players. This proved far more difficult than I expected. Not least because the BHGS dat ...

Tee hee!

The apparently simple design hides a complex data entry method. It flatters to deceive as I found when I wrote an alternative:

https://blog.vexillia.me.uk/2024/12/adlg-spreadsheet-hell ...

Chris wouldn't be the first to struggle with the official record spreadsheet ...

A look at the GB & Ireland player numbers from 2022 to 2025 here - https://blog.vexillia.me.uk/2025/12/adlg-global-elo-rankings.html?showComment=1766329218849#c8513918503050005299

TBH I don't think the data sets are that far apart:

338 vs 358 UK players
148 vs 176 not played in the last twelve months
70 vs 79 one event players

Given the differences in recording you've o ...

Ah! Spotted the difference: the numbers above are games not events. Doh! That fits better but not perfectly. Your data allows the inactive players to be split further into one event players and oth ...

Thanks for analysing your data. I was hoping you'd do that. Smile

I had another look at the ADLG data's event distribution and the two sets are clearly very different. At the lower end of participat ...

New blog post ...

People may find this interesting because it discusses different ranking systems and uses them to estimate the size of the both the active and inactive player pool in GB & Irel ...