oh, and that explanation also accounts for dom being calculated on lower tables even though there are no dom points.

also 100.

chloe:

The dom percentage might be useful in measuring vflags and other forms of wimpiness. All other things equal, if you vflag you will go out with more lands, relative to your place of finish, than if you fight, so for two players with the same percentage profile, the wimpier one would have more dom in the direction of seventh place, where it counts less, and would therefore have a lower dom percentage.

When I get to my spreadsheet computer I will try to work out some math.

To interpret dom percentage, consider a table with 28 lands to make the math easier. If second through sixth place fight to the death, the dom values from seventh to first would be

1/28, 1/27, 1/26, 1/25, 1/24, 1/23, 22/22

At the opposite extreme, if all have 4 lands and each flags in succession, we would have

4/28, 4/24, 4/20, 4/16, 4/12, 4/8, 4/4

If all players were of equal skill, this would result in an average dom of 17.7% for the fighters and 37.0 percent for the wimps. So we get the counterintuitive result that for the same distribution of finishes, the higher dom indicates greater wimpiness.

For a particular player, we could compare his average dom against the flagfest average dom for his particular distribution of finishes, and the smaller the ratio, the less is his wimp factor.

I think chloe deserves another "+" for her discovery.

Here are the top 100 arranged by their dom percentage. These have not been adjusted for differences in percentage profile. For example, Kehoe has played only one game.

Dom Player
0% kakku man
0% snmlmz
14% MadHat_Sam
25% CCSKAOT
27% Big BaII PauI
29% Kdice_CPR
30% the full monte
30% Fonias
30% Fogdog
31% crystal4444
31% erkan73
31% Mister_T
31% Scarabeus
31% momboj
32% kendawg
32% 22-Apr
32% Dauphin
32% chickinstripes
32% GDP
32% tcross
32% Karsten4130
32% Emre Oguz
32% wenig geil
32% boogybytes
32% nodice4u
32% ShamosM
33% Mazaman
33% kostur
33% Sexy Flanders
33% T Magic
33% rugbywing
33% Iumentum
33% delzzz
33% psykopat
33% leliukazzz
33% Jily
33% KAGEEE
33% Sggirriluss
33% Nazerith
33% greygoo
34% cool g
34% FackFuce
34% RichardCheese
34% Melphis
34% phuze
34% snow leopard
34% DiceMaster2
34% Fatman_x
34% scarp8
34% Jew Jon
34% kdiceplaya!
34% noamlang1
34% Carloos
34% Geert Jegers
34% TheBetterTrendz
34% ub3
34% JonZer18
34% dirtyrolls
34% céétn
34% TheONLYprophet
34% Die Waldfee
34% DoubleDogDareYa
34% Lucas M
34% Huurre
35% trendz
35% @Pink_Taco831
35% EInegro
35% ziada
35% Badshah
35% Troy11
35% pizza_the_hutt
35% Honyo
35% Gnu 58
35% @noldy86
35% Gauntlet15
35% BelkinEdimax
36% Marsyas
36% chaiNblade
36% Thrilltokill
36% Mitsi the cat
36% aismo
36% AssBlaster
37% Loobee
37% obscurehero
37% jm88
37% C0R0
38% ZIGIBOOM
38% oh hamburgers
38% ProxyCheater
40% DJohnson
40% dasfury
40% habit1
41% Snews88
44% Mercantile
44% kevin143
46% EddyB
46% jurgen
47% Ruby_09
48% Thraxle
100% Kehoe

im not so sure about the correlation between vflagging and dom. im not sure how to form my own hypothesis, but lets just do a case study of sam. the dude hardly EVER vflags, hes always aggressive and instead of vflagging, will fight, then suddenly flag out and steal whatever dom he has, instead of trying to vflag or whine/bitch until he gets killed. my guess with sam is that he gets more points per 7th than most anyone else, he gets more points per 6th than most anyone else, etc etc. its just he takes more 7ths and 6ths than most. but honestly he hardly ever vflags.

on the other hand, im more prone to vflagging/whining/bitching, and my dom is usually around 33-34%.

but the fact that people can have months with 40% dom blows my mind. that means that on average, when they end the game, they own 40% of the land. thats sick.

oh wait, i just noticed sam has 14% dom this month. maybe im completely wrong.

The above numbers are assuming that no neutrals are taken.

well hmmmm, sam has only played 8 games, so the 14% is due to low stats, but on average, by just eyeballing, he seems to get about 34% dom. so i'll stop correlating his gamestyle with %dom. dasfury seems to be a consistently high %dom player, more like 36-37%.

it really is fun to try to analyze the different ways that everyone is successful in kdice.

sam -> aggressive, early flags
das -> dom pwn
monte -> chatbox bitch
wish -> $$$
shad -> thrax
trav -> members tourneys
loo -> boobs
fiero -> fake boobs
bj -> real boobs
verm -> cabal
Ryan -> coding

there are just so many possible avenues to success in this game, which imo makes it great.

High dom percentage can be linked to a high number of first place endings, since this is automatically 100%, even if the winner only has one land at the end.

Checking dom per game will give a lot more info than the monthly dom, but that's impossible.

Ryan should compute an adjusted dom, excluding first places? Although I'm already starting to doubt that would help in any way :/

High dom percentage can be linked to a high number of first place endings, since this is automatically 100%, even if the winner only has one land at the end. This mean you can't conclude that das is a dom whore, he just goes for first a lot. (this month 34% in 76 games)

Checking dom per game will give a lot more info than the monthly dom, but that's impossible.

Ryan should compute an adjusted dom, excluding first places? Although I'm already starting to doubt that would help in any way :/

At the time I did up the stats, Sam had played only one game, not 8. His dom % is now around 34%. For October, his dom percentage was 38%. For a hypothetical vflagger with his profile, the dom percentage would be 39.7%. Not much difference. But you say that Sam doesn't vlflag. So much for my theory. Maybe after I look at a bunch of players I can get a better idea if the vflag theory works.