SoCal Thrones will be at Pair-A-Dice games in Vista on Saturday Dec 17 from noon to 6pm for demos, deckbuilding, melee and even league matches. We'll wrap up the day with a raffle... veteran or newbie, feel free to stop on by!

Some stats after 5 weeks of play in our Winter League (Player Rankings can be found on our Facebook group page).

For those of you not involved, we have 14 players.  Each player is allowed to play up to 3 games against another player.  Players are ranked by # of Wins, with # of games played being the first tie breaker.  There is also a prize for the player that plays with the most variety of decks (house/agenda combos).

Matches Played: 64
# of Different Decks Played: 36

House Rankings (based on RPI)

     House                RPI     W     L     ##     W%
1  Lannister         0.526     6     4     10     0.600
2  Greyjoy             0.525     9     7     16     0.563
3  Martell              0.521    13    9     22     0.591
4  Neutral             0.486     1     1      2      0.500
5  Stark                 0.483    10   13    23     0.435
6  Baratheon       0.468    16   16   32      0.500
7  Targaryen        0.467     9    14     23     0.391

Most Popular House (games):  Baratheon (32)
Least Popular House (games):  Neutral (2)

Most Popular Agenda (games):  None (25)
Least Popular Agenda (games):  TwtI (0)
 

Most Popular Deck: Stark Siege (15)
Deck(s) with the Most Wins: Bara No Agenda (6-1), Targ HttIT (6-5), and Stark Siege (6-9)

See you guys Saturday at PAD!

After 6 weeks of Winter League, here are some stats:

House Ranks (Best / Worse Match-ups are based on W% versus each house)

    House                RPI      W      L       ##        W%         Best Match-up        Worst Match-up
1 Martell               0.547    23    14      37      0.622           Targaryen                  Lannister
2 Greyjoy              0.520   17     15      32      0.531               Stark                      Lannister
3 Stark                  0.497   18     19      37      0.486              Neutral                     Greyjoy
4 Targaryen         0.479   14     19       33      0.424           Lannister                    Martell
5 Lannister          0.474     7        9      16      0.438              Greyjoy                       Stark
6 Baratheon        0.472    20     22      42      0.476                Stark                       Martell
7 Neutral              0.438     1        2         3      0.333            Baratheon                   Stark
 

Total Matches Played: 100
# of Different Decks Played: 46

Most Popular House: 42 Baratheon
Least Popular House: 3 Neutral
Most Popular Agenda: 46 None
Least Popular Agenda: 0 TwtI
Most Played Deck: 21 Stark / Siege

Agenda Ranks (More games would improve the accuracy of the RPI#)

Agenda          RPI       W       L       W%       ##       Best Match-up       Worst Match-up
1 NW            0.630      2        0    1.000        2             KoHH                         NA
2 TwtS          0.604      1        0    1.000        1             KoHH                         NA
3 HttIT          0.562      9        7     0.563     16              Wild                          BwB
4 TWB          0.550      1        1    0.500        2              None                       None
5 None         0.532    27     19    0.587      46              KoS                          KoW
6 KoW          0.528    10        6    0.625      16             None                        Wild
7 BwB          0.528       2       1     0.667        3            KoHH                      Alliance
8 Alliance     0.527      2       3     0.400        5              BwB                         CoS
9 Wild          0.502       1       2     0.333        3             KoW                          HttIT
10 Siege     0.495     11     10     0.524      21             KoW                        None
11 KotR       0.483      9         8    0.529      17             CoS                         KoHH
12 KoHH     0.482     11     14     0.440      25            KoS                           TwtS
13 TwtN       0.478       2        1    0.667         3            None                          MP
14 MP          0.457       3        7    0.300      10             None                         KoS
15 KoS        0.419       5      13    0.278      18             CoS                          None
16 CoS        0.414      4         8    0.333      12           Alliance                      None
17 TwtI         0.000      0         0    0.000        0              NA                             NA

Deck Ranks (Again, more games will improve the RPI)

             Decks                          RPI      W      L      ##      W%
1 Baratheon / Alliance         0.775     1       0       1      1.000
2 Greyjoy / Wild                     0.739     1       0       1      1.000
3 Lannister / MP                   0.711     1       0        1      1.000
4 Martell / CoS                      0.675     1       0        1      1.000
5 Martell / BwB                      0.666     1       0        1      1.000
6 Martell / None                    0.645      7      1        8      0.875
7 Baratheon / TwtN              0.644     1       0        1      1.000
8 Martell / Alliance                0.625     1       0       1       1.000
9 Lannister / NW                  0.588      2      0        2      1.000
10 Targaryen / KoHH           0.578     2      0         2      1.000
 

This Monday will be our last night for Winter League games.  The Finals will be on Saturday 1/21 at At-Ease Games in Poway

Player rankings are up on our Facebook page, but here are the current stats:

House Stats (Best / Worse Match-ups are based on W% versus each house)

     House          RPI      W      L      ##      W%      Best Match-up      Worst Match-up
1  Martell         0.520    25    20     45     0.556        Targaryen               Lannister
2  Lannister    0.515    14    11     25     0.560           Martell                  Targaryen
3  Greyjoy        0.514    19    17     36     0.528        Baratheon              Lannister
4  Stark            0.499    26    27     53     0.491          Neutral                    Greyjoy
5  Baratheon  0.479    25     26    51     0.490            Stark                       Martell
6  Targaryen   0.474    14     21    35     0.400         Lannister                  Martell
7  Neutral        0.446      1       2      3      0.333        Baratheon                  Stark
 

Total Matches Played: 124
# of Different Decks Played: 53

Most Popular House:  Stark (53)
Least Popular House:  Neutral (3)
Most Popular Agenda:  None (58)
Least Popular Agenda:  TwtS (1)
Most Played Deck:  Stark / Siege (29)

Agenda Stats

    Agenda       RPI       W       L       W%       ##
1  PBtT          0.666      4        0     1.000       4
2  TWB          0.606      4        2     0.667       6
3  TwtS          0.585      1        0     1.000       1
4  NW            0.564      2        1     0.667       3
5  HttIT          0.539      9        9      0.500     18
6  None        0.539      33     25    0.569      58
7  Alliance    0.528      3        3      0.500       6
8  BwB          0.527      3        2      0.600       5
9  TwtI           0.507      1        1      0.500       2
10  KoW       0.507     10       7      0.588     17
11  Siege     0.490      15     14     0.517     29
12  TwtN       0.487      2        1      0.667      3
13  KotR      0.479     11       10     0.524     21
14  MP          0.479      5       11      0.313    16
15  Wild       0.469      1         2      0.333      3
16  KoHH    0.462     11      15     0.423      26
17  KoS       0.418      5       13     0.278      18
18  CoS       0.409      4         8      0.333     12
 

Deck stats are too incomplete to really mean anything.

Since this is the Socal meta thread, I thought I'd mention our Los Angeles/South Bay play group.  We've met the last two weeks in Manhattan Beach.  Last week we met at my house for my inauguraul AGOT experience.  We had 4 players and it was a blast.  Special thanks  to Chris Schoenthal who both introduced me to the game and made the long trek up.  This week we started our now weekly gathering at the Comic Bug in Manhattan Beach.  We had 5 this week and hopefully we will see more next week.  For next week, we are trying to decide between Tuesday and Wednesday, so if you would like to join us, please weigh in on what day works best for you.

Congratulations to DeathJester26 on winning the SoCal Winter League!  He narrowly defeated Bronson in a Martell-Maesters vs Stark-Maesters, 11 plot, 2 hour, 15-14 power count final.  The balance of power swung back and forth several times during the game- a LOT of fun to watch :)  Sadly my ability to play a wide variety of decks decently didn't help me come anywhere near winning the League.  Thanks to DeathJester for all the work he put into the league setup and stat-keeping!

I'm going to try and have final stats for the league posted here by the end of the week.

Thank you everyone for participating.  Now, it's time to get serious...

For anyone who was not in the Winter League, we still meet Monday nights at Game Empire around 6pm.

Congrats John.  I am still bummed I did not have the time to participate in the Winter League.  I will work on building some decks this weekend and hope to be out there on Monday.

Some final stats for the SoCal 2011 Winter League:

House stats (ranked by RPI, best agenda requires a minimum of 3 games to count):

House         RPI     W     L     ##     W%    Best Matchup (W%)    Worst Matchup (W%)   Best Agenda (W%)
Martell        0.535   35    23   58   0.603     Targaryen (0.917)        Lannister (0.333)       No Agenda (0.667)
Greyjoy       0.512   24    23   47   0.511          Martell (0.636)         Lannister (0.429)          Winter (0.563)
Stark           0.509   34    32   66   0.515         Neutral (1.000)           Martell (0.417)            Knights (0.667)
Lannister   0.491   17   19    36   0.472          Martell (0.667)         Targaryen (0.333)          PBtT (0.667)
Baratheon 0.474   28    31   59    0.475     Lannister (0.600)          Martell (0.222)        Treaty South (0.800)
Targaryen  0.470   16    25   41   0.390      Lannister (0.667)          Martell (0.083)          Hollow Hill (0.667)
Neutral      0.445     1      2      3    0.333     Baratheon (0.500)            Stark (0.000)                        N/A

Agenda stats (ranked by W%):

Agenda                W      L      ##      W%
Treaty South        4      1       5      0.800
PBtT                      5      2       7      0.714
Night's Watch     2      1       3      0.667
Treaty Isles         2      1       3      0.667
Treaty North        2      1       3      0.667
Brotherhood       3      2       5      0.600
Winter                 12      9     21     0.571
No Agenda         41    31    72     0.569
Maesters            14    12     26     0.538
Siege                  18     16    34     0.529
Knights               12     14    26     0.462
HttIT                     10     12    22    0.455
Alliance                3      4       7      0.429
White Book          5      7     12     0.417
Hollow Hill          11     17   28     0.393
Summer               6     13    19     0.316
Shadows             4      9      13     0.308
Wildlings             1      3       4      0.250

Deck stats (top 15 by RPI, minimum of 3 games played):

Deck                                      RPI       W      L       ##      W%
Martell/Summer                0.625      2       1        3     0.667
Lannister/PBtT                  0.613      5       2        7     0.714
Martell/No Agenda            0.605    12      6       18    0.667
Baratheon/Treaty South   0.588     4       1        5     0.800
Stark/Maesters                  0.573     5       3        8     0.625
Martell/Maesters               0.550     5       5       10    0.500
Greyjoy/No Agenda          0.547    10      8       18    0.556
Greyjoy/Winter                   0.525     9       7       16    0.563
Martell/Hollow Hill            0.516     8       7       15    0.533
Stark/Siege                       0.509    18     16      34    0.529
Baratheon/No Agenda    0.504    12      7       19    0.632
Greyjoy/Maesters             0.499     2       2         4     0.500
Targaryen/HttIT                 0.491    10    12       22    0.455
Targaryen/Hollow Hill     0.487      2       1        3     0.667
Lannister/White Book     0.485     4        6      10    0.400
 

Player stats will be up on our Facebook group page.

Thank you everyone for making AGoT fun.

Gwanum said:

Awesome! Looking forward to seeing you again bro!

imrahil327 said:

Good show, btw. Rookie of the Year honors are yours! ;)

Aww, thanks :)  Can't wait to start working on Regionals decks!

So does number of different decks played mean that decks are changed every week or it just implies small tuning?

"Different" was defined by House/Agenda combo.  HOW different it was varied from person to person and deck to deck.  For instance, it's pretty easy to switch Baratheon alliance to Martell to Baratheon Treaty to the South to Martell Alliance to Baratheon and include most if not all of the same cards.  Speaking personally, the majority of my combinations were pretty different from each other, though.

Yeah, that's what I kinda wanted to know. Because it's interesting to see if those bad match-ups are really bad or if it's just coincidence of a decks changing from match to match.

So another question, how do people counter Lannister Intrigue Rush in your meta?^___^