Patches

[Dog Soldier]

I think Glenn, the blitz community has already voted for what titles they would like updated next. I analyzed the blitz game results DB. I think game results can be treated as votes for popularity as to which titles are being played here at the blitz.

I would recommend updates to S41 and M44 first.
R42 and DF85 next.

Here are results of games played in 2011 as of today from the blitz DB.


And here is the same data in a little different form.

What I see is:

• Of 28 titles in the TOC section of the blitz, 27 titles have been played at least once this year.
  
• The distribution of game results across those 27 titles makes a nice normal distribution.
  

Let us consider the center around the high point in the curve which results in 11 game titles grouped within 4% of total games played from the the most popular game (50% of F14 the most popular title).
Cross referencing those seven game titles with the dates the titles were patched looks like this...

What I see...

• R42 & M44 are the most popular games which have the longest time since an update has been made.
  
• S41 has nearly the same number of games played as F14, thus is just as popular, but has not been updated for three years
  
• The next ranked group would be F40, FG85 and EA42 in that order.
  

To further determine the order of the games that are to be nominated for update in the final set of five games, the variable to be considered would be have enough significant changes occurred since these five games were last patched to give enough "bang for the buck" to refresh them for the community here at the blitz. I believe Glenn, Scott and JTS are best informed to make that determination.

That is all I have to say about that.

Dog Soldier