Entelechy wrote:I have since realized that passing to a safe number does greatly increase the chance of a ball reaching a spiker (2/9 instead of 2/13).
uhm... I don't think so. would you mind explaining how you got that?
Luxaria wrote:The actual percentages and probability may skew all of these results, but in terms of physical outcome, I... believe that if the mafia were specifically trying to kill their target, they would be more likely to serve to that player. And without doing the math, I think it would check out since that player has 4/12 chances to pass to mafia, whereas trying to kill this target in a roundabout manner requires all previous players to toss to them at 1/12 chance. Correct me if I'm wrong, and I may correct myself if I go and do the math later.
I've stated the same earlier though differently phrased;
serving to the player they want benched definitely gives them the highest chances of said player being benched.
e.g.: let's say they're trying to bench player N.
serving to player N: 1/3 (odds of passing to maf) + 7/12*1/12*10/12 (odds of passing safely, second person passing back to them, and them not being spiker) = 37%
serving to a different player, odds of player N being benched as second player: 1/12*4/12 = 3%
serving to a different player, odds of player N being benched as third player: 7/12*1/12*10/12 = 4%
unless math is very much not the mafia's thing, the intended target is always the first player. and if it's not, we have no way of finding out the intended target anyway, given how low the odds of them actually being benched in a roundabout way are. case closed.
☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ wrote:k let me know if i missed any claims this is literally from memory
mine! I wrote in my giant percentage post somewhere that I was set to pass to #7 last night.
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so far, the ones whose posts have been off to me are primarily entelechy and tiki.
entelechy for doing the math thing, but not posting process, just throwing out odds that aren't entirely correct, and in both cases so far could mislead town imho.
tiki for... gut feeling tbh mostly, and the way he presented the options we have, ignoring the fact that it's been shown that by passing to safe numbers we're highly likely to lose a confirmed town player (unless the maf go all double wifomy on us), as well as misinterpreting not passing to them as increasing the risk of being benched.
I don't like going after new players right off the bat, and I'd like to give entelechy a chance to explain their thought process, so I'm going to
vote: tiki.