I'm brushing up on some skills in R, and I'm using the collected Primes data to help. (Thanks @Truthiness !)

I thought it would be interesting to share this visualization of commander placings for the Primes so far this season.

I required that the commander have at least 10 data points (Sorry Leia!). The placings are their percentile place. Outside of that, I did nothing to the data other than display it and insert the mean placing.

@GiledPallaeon suggested I compare the objectives taken, so I tossed those in real quick as well. The blank columns at the beginning are the unknowns. I was just already up too late and being too lazy to remove them.

As a bit of a guide if you're unfamiliar with these, the dots are the data points, the diamond is the mean (average). The middle bar is the median, the top bar is the 25th percentile (anything above that was in the top quarter of placings for that commander), and the bottom is the 75th percentile (anything below that was in the bottom quarter of placings for that commander).

Disclaimers:

• I am not a statistician
• Data visualizations can lie to you

That’s a great way to assess the commanders, very helpful. It would be interesting to see a comparison of previous years in the same format in order judge the effect of the newer releases as well.

@Astrodar I'm a bit confused that your charts for Defensive and Navigation Objectives show 13 columns but only 12 names of objectives.

Your commander chart looks great! (Even so I don't have any clue how to interpret it.)

18 minutes ago, Triangular said:

@Astrodar I'm a bit confused that your charts for Defensive and Navigation Objectives show 13 columns but only 12 names of objectives.

Your commander chart looks great! (Even so I don't have any clue how to interpret it.)

Red is missing Marked for Destruction

1 hour ago, Triangular said:

@Astrodar I'm a bit confused that your charts for Defensive and Navigation Objectives show 13 columns but only 12 names of objectives.

Your commander chart looks great! (Even so I don't have any clue how to interpret it.)

The unnamed column are all the unknown objectives in that category. Basically all the blanks in the data sheet. I pulled it fast, so I was too lazy to move them.

No one took Marked for Destruction, so it just didn't show up at all in the chart.

1 hour ago, CommanderDave said:

That’s a great way to assess the commanders, very helpful. It would be interesting to see a comparison of previous years in the same format in order judge the effect of the newer releases as well.

Got you covered! Here are the placings from last years Regionals data.

So what we can take away from this: we've gotten a couple of useful objectives, and a bunch of not so good ones.

So Minefields is more popular than Salvage Run now...

5 hours ago, Green Knight said:

So what we can take away from this: we've gotten a couple of useful objectives, and a bunch of not so good ones.

Theyve only been out for a few months!

I have no idea what I'm looking at but it looks cool so I digg it.

Judging byt the amount of datapoints for e.g. Moff Jerry has, the SSD can be dangerous.

Rieekan, what is happening? Dodonna is played better than him now?

Imperial Commanders dominate with more wins?

Surprise attack more popular than Advanced Gunnery. Wow.

Contested Outpost still popular despite SSD's.

Ah why bother take anything other than Solar Corona/Superior positions.

20 minutes ago, DblVsdGuy said:

Ah why bother take anything other than Solar Corona/Superior positions

Because Hyperspace Migration can net a disgusting amount of points over the course of a game.

Not everyone has bothered to read the text on the card, but it’ll rival the other two eventually (or get errata’d and not rival the other two.)

3 hours ago, DblVsdGuy said:

Ah why bother take anything other than Solar Corona/Superior positions.

I prefer Infested Fields over SP for Dodonna bombers. The ability to move two obstacles every round is hilarious with Dodonna. Take Ezra on Yavaris to move an Exogorth or asteroid for even more hilarity.

On 1/3/2020 at 12:10 AM, Bertie Wooster said:

I prefer Infested Fields over SP for Dodonna bombers. The ability to move two obstacles every round is hilarious with Dodonna. Take Ezra on Yavaris to move an Exogorth or asteroid for even more hilarity.

it was just a comment on the popularity of the blues. Personally I rather not use solar/positions if i can find something more fun that works for what im doing.

Make it so you can't pick a flotilla as an objective ship with most wanted and I think that will perk up a lot of the other point giving red objectives. Yellow seams relatively healthy. Not sure how to make the blue more diverse.