by johnclark
This is an update of this post:http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/1011513/best-characters-...
Up to 38 games of data now, with each character on about 25 plays, mostly 4 and 5 player games.
After each game the characters get a score, such that first = 1 and last = 0, with the other placings a fraction depending on the number of players.
Here are the average scores for each character:
0.64 Cyborg
0.56 Superman
0.52 Green Lantern
0.49 Wonder Woman
0.46 Aquaman
0.39 Batman
0.35 Flash
I was a little doubtful of the Cyborg results earlier - I thought that with more plays he would come back to the pack. Not so. I am coming around to thinking that Cyborg is much better than I had assumed.
Cyborg's great strength is that he rarely comes last - because he has two options for his special ability he never gets caught out with a bad line-up. In addition, Cyborg can adapt. If Batman is before him in the turn order, he can switch to super powers. If Cyborg is ahead of Batman in the turn order, then he buys the equipment and Batman stuggles. Likewise with Superman. We have really noticed how Cyborg can hurt the player going next.
Cyborg's ability to draw a card for playing an equipment is enormously good - that ability is as good as or better than the Flash's ability AND he has the +1 power for the first super power. Don't believe the naysayers - Cyborg is one of the top characters.
In our games, Cyborg comes last only 9 per cent of the time. The rest of the characters come last around 25 per cent of the time on average.
Standard deviations:
0.43 Green Lantern
0.39 Aquaman
0.36 Batman
0.35 Cyborg
0.32 Wonder Woman
0.31 Superman
0.25 Flash
Flash has a low standard deviation simply because he finishes last or second-last a lot. Flash has not won a single game so far.
I will keep providing updates. Once each character gets to 40+ games then the results should begin to be reasonably solid.