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Analyze Dozens of MOL Drafts
by Bill Stark | posted at 2010-02-11 21:30:00
tagged: MTG, Magic, Magic the Gathering, Magic Online, MTGO, MOL, MODO, DraftBetter
Here's a cool site I came across during my internet travels today: http://www.draftbetter.com.
Put together by "DB," the site is essentially an amalgam of Magic Online drafts. The whole project started, according to a section entitled "Project Guidelines" with DB on a 1600 rating account. Since then every draft on the account has been published, good or bad, as readers follow along to see how high DB's rating can go. There are also guest contributors submitting drafts, and updates are approximately daily.
The part that truly interests me is the community aspect. Analyzing someone's draft, then joining in a conversation with them about the picks they made and their reasoning can be useful regardless of what playskill the two players are at. Discussing picks someone makes that differs from a strategy you might pursue can provide useful insights into opponent's mindsets, whether you'll face that actual player or not, and the more drafts you get a look at, the better.
In any case, it's as good a time kill as anything, and if you're an avid Limited player you can get pretty sucked in pretty quickly.
Check the site out here, their Facebook page here, and their Twitter feed here.
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Bill Stark is the founder and editor-in-chief of TheStarkingtonPost.com. He began playing Magic in 1995 after being introduced to the game by his brother. Since then he has competed at all levels of play including the JSS, Grand Prix, Nationals, and Pro Tour. In addition to his career as a pro, Bill began writing about the game early on for TheDojo.com, the first website dedicated to Magic. Since then he has written and edited for nearly every major Magic website on the web. In 2007 he began work as an official coverage reporter for Wizards of the Coast, flying to Grand Prixs, Nationals, and World Championships to record the events happening at each. He was also hired for six months as an R&D intern at Wizards where he worked on the redesign for DailyMTG.com as well as helping to develop multiple Magic sets. After leaving Wizards, he started TheStarkingtonPost.com to utilize his many contacts in the industry to provide a better information solution for fans of TCGs, gaming, and Magic: The Gathering.