Why Isn't playtcg as popular as Pokemon tcg online?

[pokesam128]

play tcg 99.999999999999999999999999 % of the time i go on to do serios testing first match reshiboar next match reshiboar


NO one wants to test agenst reshiboar for serious testing

 

[Benjineer]

playtcg is much better for testing
TCGO lost me at the difficulty of getting the code cards on.

 

[waynegg]

Why? Short and sweet- ADVERTISING!

 

[LibertyFigter]

Do you have evidence that PlayTCG's randomizer is suspect? I have drawn 1,000 rolls from the PlayTCG die and conducted a chi-squared test. The probability of observing the given distribution (or a more skewed distribution of evens and odds) if evens and odds were equally likely to happen was way over 0.05. (0.05 is the typical criterion for statistical significance.)

Do you have a sample of rolls that you would like to provide that demonstrates that PlayTCG's randomizer does not sufficiently randomize?

---------- Post added 11/29/2012 at 04:02 PM ----------



That's most likely because you're not randomizing your deck as much as PlayTCG does.

Huge clumps are typical of randomized distributions.

Did you also assess whether each individual die result was equally likely? Were you using Pearson's chi-squared? Do you still have your data you could present? Did you repeat the experiment?

I very much appreciate the wish to academically/statistically assess the PlayTCG randomizer. However, conducting a single chi-squared evaluation does not end the discussion. I'd be curious to see your results in a more detailed manner.

Also: to say something is "typical" of a random distribution in a shuffling algorithm seems dubious. To say that it should happen sometimes? Sure. To say that it is typical? Strange.