Tag Archives: LaTeX

TC401: Avoidance Diminishing Returns in WoD

Posted on August 6, 2014 by Theck

Avoidance and diminishing returns are topics we’ve spent a fair amount of time discussing in the past. In 2012, I wrote a series of three blog posts discussing avoidance diminishing returns in Mists of Pandaria, chronicling the background of the … Continue reading →

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TC101: How Stats Are Calculated

Posted on July 31, 2014 by Theck

Primary attribute calculations seem like they should be a pretty simple topic. So simple, in fact, that most players don’t even think about how they’re done. Most theorycrafters don’t either until they try to write a spreadsheet that models a … Continue reading →

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TC101: Testing Simulationcraft

Posted on July 21, 2014 by Theck

In the last two installments, we talked about what it means to theorycraft and spent some time discussing experimental design. Today, we’re going to talk about how Simulationcraft fits into that picture. Simulationcraft is a numerical model of the game … Continue reading →

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TC101: Intro to Theorycrafting

Posted on July 15, 2014 by Theck

On more than a few occasions I’ve been asked some variation of the question, “How do I get started in theorycrafting?” Which is a tough question to answer, since there’s a variety of ways to get started depending on what … Continue reading →

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Velvet Resolver

Posted on June 11, 2014 by Theck

On Monday, Celestalon kicked off the official Alpha Theorycrafting season by posting a Theorycrafting Discussion thread on the forums. And he was kind enough to toss a meaty chunk of information our way about Resolve, the replacement for Vengeance. Resolve: … Continue reading →

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(Re)-Building A Better Metric – Part II

Posted on April 8, 2014 by Theck

In Part I, we talked about the criteria we wanted to satisfy to ensure that a metric was good, and briefly assessed the results of our beta test of the new version of TMI. The conclusion I came to after … Continue reading →

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(Re)-Building A Better Metric – Part I

Posted on April 7, 2014 by Theck

A few weeks ago, I posted a request for data to test out a new implementation of TMI. This follow-up post took longer than expected, for a number of reasons. A busy semester, wedding planning, and the Diablo 3 expansion … Continue reading →

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Vengeance, With A Vengeance

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Theck

The developers have been hinting that a major info dump is coming soon™, and that probably includes some more detail about how Vengeance will work in Warlords of Draenor. If you’re a long-time reader of the blog, you probably know … Continue reading →

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A Comedy of Error – Part II

Posted on February 20, 2014 by Theck

As I said in Part I, I observed some strange error behavior in the 5.4.2 Rotation Analysis post. Now that we’ve had a thorough (and lengthy) review of the statistics of error analysis, It’s time we looked more carefully at the … Continue reading →

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A Comedy of Error – Part I

Posted on February 14, 2014 by Theck

In the 5.4.2 Rotation Analysis post, I mentioned that I was looking into some odd behavior in the SimC error statistics: I’m actually doing a little statistical analysis on SimC results right now to investigate some deviations from this prediction, … Continue reading →

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