Catan Analytics: How to win with data-driven strategies - Duddhawork
Settlers of Catan is a must if you love playing strategic board games. We try to squeeze in games with friends whenever we can but most of ...
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After losing a few games in a row, I decided to see if someone had attempted to quantify the game of Catan. I found this <anchor>dataset</anchor> on Kaggle. The dataset is far from complete but I figured it would be a good starting point to distill some data-driven strategies given my background in statistics. It contains 50 four-player games which results in 200 rows of data. It is important to note that the four rows within a game are not independent since Catan is a game of finite resources.