New year, new sim, and with it brings one of the most significant changes to the league: The Death of the Sim Test. As it stands right now, teams and players can sit and simulate thousands of games in order to tweak their win percentage ever so slightly. For me, I have my doubts on how much one can trust the results of testing. It’s impossible to predict with certainty what another team is going to do, and if they change their offensive or defensive strats even slightly, it calls the results of any test against their old strat into question.
This is not without saying that I myself am not a fan of sim testing--I actually love it. It’s a fun thing to be doing while listening to podcasts. However, I think it does the league a disservice with its over-reliance. It also is a tool for finding the meta on certain archs and builds, and for me, knowing the meta inside and out ruins a good part of the league. It pigeon-holes everyone who wants their player to do well into one specific arch or player build.
The new year and new sim will bring about a new meta, of course, and after playing around with DDSPF21 I am confident in saying there is no easy way to sim test, and thus, the secrets of the meta will be much harder to eke out, and GM’s will have to figure out a new way to develop their strats other than simulating thousands of games and picking the highest win rate percentage.
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This is not without saying that I myself am not a fan of sim testing--I actually love it. It’s a fun thing to be doing while listening to podcasts. However, I think it does the league a disservice with its over-reliance. It also is a tool for finding the meta on certain archs and builds, and for me, knowing the meta inside and out ruins a good part of the league. It pigeon-holes everyone who wants their player to do well into one specific arch or player build.
The new year and new sim will bring about a new meta, of course, and after playing around with DDSPF21 I am confident in saying there is no easy way to sim test, and thus, the secrets of the meta will be much harder to eke out, and GM’s will have to figure out a new way to develop their strats other than simulating thousands of games and picking the highest win rate percentage.
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