Cyanide BB Manager

Hi,

Can anyone enlighten me on what BB Manager is? I've heard it banded around this forum a few times.

Lee

 

Do we use it in the Crunch Cup, will I need it to participate.

 

You don't need it, but I find it very helpful.

Also if you have it you can download all the replays of all the games that have been uploaded too, which is great.

A great tool, reasonably easy to use, I highly recommend it.

One of the hardest things in the game is to seperate bad play from bad luck. Something dumb that works because your opponent rolls a lot of 6s is hard to seperate from something smart that works because you made some easier rolls. Similarly did you fail because you rolled a load of 1s or because you were trying osmething silly?

BBmanager is great for looking at things like that.

 

You will find further info here:

Blood Bowl • View topic - BB Manager: analyze your matches, manage your leagues!

In my opinion, BB Manager is a good aplication which can crunch for you a lot of numbers of your matches, stats and how well it went for you the match in terms of rolls.

The shame is that you dont have that info before the match to avoid the failures, but well, that is a whole another discussion...

 

It's also used for storing and sharing replays. I reccomend to use it.

 

How do I know that I had bad luck in BB Manager ?

 

You download the Application. Run it. and then Submit your match.

Then you can view your match, and below both one T6 and 2T6 there is a number. from - to +.

The lower you get the worse your dice have been.

I have seen matches with -25 or something like that (don't doubt people have had worse luck then that though) and about the same in the positive, +25.

Just remember that it takes ALL dice of the kind in consideration. Not why, when and where you failed. So a match can look pretty good, but you failed the important once so it feels rubbish.

/SorroW

 

Must say that I have stopped using its stats to see if I have been lucky or not, be course it does not take into consideration if it was a turnover or not. I only see the stats as fun and look upon my snakeeye %.

 

I do find it quite useful. Had one game, at least to confirm general trends, it is gives useful feeback on if you are doing the right thing or not. As you say it is not perfect, the big one being as you say it should keep a record of the number of turnovers you give up on d6 rolls.

Seeing how many injury rolls you give up, or what the armour break % is can be quite helpful. Clearly when the injuries happen is important too, but a general guide.

Clearly there are rolls which are a lot more important than others, and when they come up is important too.

Being 3/10 of KO rolls is either a bit unlucky or it could be a complete disaster as you hae 3 players KOed for much of hte match who fail multiple rolls then make the one before T16.

As I have said before I find it difficult sometimes to see if I have been lucky or outplayed my opponent with a win etc.

 

I installed it yesterday to see how my luck went during a game. Lets see.

Also I thought it had a replay thingy... but apparently its in Blood Bowl itself only.

 

Its so slow... argghh

 

If you press the + and - signs on the numeric pad on your keyboard it should speed the replay up and slow it down respectively. There are various different speeds that you can watch it at.

It would of course be better if there was a rewind, or fast-forward function, but being able to change the speed is better than nothing!

 

I thought he meant BBM is so slow, which it definitely is. And probably almost as bad to use as the Cyanide multiplayer interface. Useful though...!

 

I don't have a numeric pad... pressing my "+" sign doesn't seem to make it faster unfortunately.

Managed to put a game from 2 days ago into the BB manager... mostly average results. Except for dauntless... -56 !! Dauntless almost never works for me...

 

Found the "hidden" + sign !! Thanks.

Also found out that in a game I failed 46% of Go For it. While my foe managed 96% GFI ... he did more than twice than I.

 

Don't start getting too obsessed with those stats! Sure they can give you some indications about luck, but they don't paint a very complete picture of the dice rolls, or tell you anything regarding the decisions you made during a game!

If you do want to analyze your games then you are better off looking at the replays and seeing where you could have done things differently. It helps if you expect most of your moves to fail before you try them too!