Deeper than Winrate: Measuring Growth as a Player in Casual Magic

After tracking his wins and losses across all of his Cube drafts for six months, Andy is reviewing the results with Anthony and discussing why he is abandoning this practice. But, if he’s not tracking the results of his Cube matches, how does he know if he is growing as a player? What actually matters, and how do you measure it? Plus, our hosts ask an important question: is playing Magic fun?

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Discussed in this episode:

• The Quantified Self
• Feltron
• Datum
• The Doughboys
• The Guardian Project Episode on their 2022 stats
• The Cascade Cube
• The Forgiveness Cube
• In Defense of Forcing: How to Draft Cube Successfully with Ryan Saxe
• Andy’s Coaching Session with Brian Coval
• Cube Con
• Cultic Cube

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

3:48 - Introduction to topic

5:18 - Overview of Andy’s stats

19:31 - Why Andy is no longer going to be tracking this information

30:51 - If win rate doesn’t matter, what does?

44:46 - How to actually record what matters?

59:49 - Outro

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You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:

• Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube
• Anthony’s “Regular” Cube

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Musical production by DJ James Nasty.