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Originally Posted by mfine
Can you explain more about the analysis you did? It sounds really interesting
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Basically, we broke down the scoring mechanics of the game. I wish I had the charts and graphs to post but I don't at the moment. I might put a student on posting them before too long but they are working on some other number crunching for us at the moment.
The charts aren't anything special really but they forced the conversation for our team to be about optimum scoring strategies rather than the less productive "lets build XXXX".
We used the EWCP TwentyFour blog posts as the basis for a lot of what we did:
http://twentyfour.ewcp.org/. This post in particular has been very helpful for breaking down the timing of tasks:
http://twentyfour.ewcp.org/post/5892...hat-time-is-it
That whole blog is required reading for many of our students.
Speaking of reading... read the rules and understand them. That's a critical component to being able to analyze the game. One of the objectives on the second or third day for us was a group reading of the rules. It worked out well and I suspect we will be doing that again. Many of the newer students on our team weren't fully familiar with everything and reading the rules gave them additional insight and gave them an opportunity to have their questions answered.