Most Popular / Successful Tournament teams

[Joemanji]

Latest numbers:

Top 50
17 Undead
7 Wood Elf
7 Amazon
5 Dwarf
4 Skaven
3 Lizardman
2 Orc
2 Norse
1 Dark Elf
1 Chaos Dwarfs
1 Khemri

Top 100
30 Undead
15 Wood Elf
11 Skaven
9 Amazon
9 Dwarf
6 Norse
5 Dark Elf
4 Orc
4 Chaos Dwarfs
3 Lizardman
2 Khemri
1 Necro
1 Elf

[Wightlord]

most people just go for zombies for the extra armour already, iincreasing the price of skellys will make this a no brainer

QFT

Absolute no brainer choice.

[Joemanji]

May 2010 numbers:

Top 50
17 Undead
9 Wood Elves
5 Amazons
5 Skaven
4 Dwarfs
3 Orc
2 Lizardmen
2 Norse
2 Khemri
1 Chaos Dwarfs

Top 100
28 Undead
17 Wood Elves
13 Skaven
8 Amazons
8 Dwarfs
6 Dark Elves
6 Norse
5 Orc
3 Lizardmen
2 Khemri
2 Chaos Dwarfs
1 Necro
1 Elves

Not many significant changes, Undead + WEs with 52% of the top 50 between them, and 45% of the top 100.

I've also invented a little comparison I'll call the Joemanji Index. It's an effort to compare relative power of the top races:

87.4 Amazons
75.8 Skaven
72.8 Undead
72.0 Dwarfs
72.0 Wood Elves
47.4 Orc
36.4 Lizardmen
29.4 Norse
26.2 Khemri
16.0 Chaos Dwarfs

I've awarded each position in the top 50 a number from 100 to 51, added together each race's score and divided by the number of teams present in the top 50 (minimum 5). Totally arbitrary, but it comes out saying Amazons are broken so I'm happy with it.

Cheers
Joe

[Jimjimjimany]

busy day was it joe?

interesting though!

[DoubleSkulls]

You could look at this...
http://naf.doubleskulls.net/races.html

Every NAF game as if a single player had played each race. Interestingly it shows 'zons as much better than any of the others.

[Joemanji]

Very interesting. Amazons on 179, then six other tier 1 races clustered around 164. So yeah, Amazons massively better.

[besters]

A very intersting list, not what I would have thought, Human's very low down and Orc's below 150, were big surprises, as well as Amazon being so far ahead.

I expected Human to be about 150, Orc to e over and Amazon to be in the tier 1 cluster!

[DoubleSkulls]

Orcs seem to do worse than good players can get out of them - I think that's because they are the most popular.

Humans just aren't that good compared to most other tier 1s. That's not to say you can't win with them (or even win tournaments) but you are stacking the odds against you.

[Podfrey]

There are Lies. There are Damn Lies. And then there are Statistics

[Purplegoo]

There are Lies. There are Damn Lies. And then there are Rankings

Agreed!