Tapered off. Not tampered.

Chloe................................

Tinypic.

Ah... Yeah, I noticed that when I was wrapping up my own analysis earlier in the year. Bit odd given they let me use it for free for 2 and a half years, but oh well

Fortunately, I do seem to have a bit of 'credit' left there, so here's Chloe's visual summary!



Deal-Eye leads 17-10 after 36 games.

Yes... I think we'll see a lot more 2-box deals like this for Deal-Eye, the banker has no real reason not to offer a fairly generous offer as box 23 will be opened whatever, and there's some logic to taking the offer and giving yourself spendable money. Not too bad a result in the end to an unavoidable trainwreck...

EDIT: Mine would appear to expire tomorrow, so yeah try Tinypic ACB, there's probably a few others about...

http://imgur.com/ is the site I use for images.

I'd recommend postimage.org...

Roop................................



A thoroughly deserved jackpot win for both sides, for while today's offers were no doubt stingy, they were on a board where they were still difficult to decline. Considering the Banker knows everyone's utility curves thanks to those stupid deal lights, though, I doubt this will improve the offers in future games.

Sarah...........................



A game where you couldn't really have regrets regardless of which course of action you took for 8 box onwards, but since Deal-Eye isn't affected by mind games and always plays the board, it obviously dealt the final offer for a pedantic WIN.

Just for the record, Sarah swapped £5k for £3k

Firstly, Deal-Eye obviously would've won £100 in Victoria's game for a DRAW.

Now Giulio...................................



A BRILLIANT game to finish off the week , but not if Deal-Eye was in the chair. Sadly, thanks to it's over-aggression on one box games at 3 box, £35,000 wasn't nearly enough for it. On balance, it was thoroughly deserved defeat for Deal-Eye, like most of it's defeats this year (i.e. dealing the 3rd offer in Joey's game, crashing in Nick's, Lily's, Patrick's and Erica's games despite there being good offers during their games, and taking several utility-defying Deals on all-blue finishes).

Ahh, Greedy greedy Deal-Eye. This is why computers will never rule the world.

No system is infallible, it never could be! And "Utility-defying" deals are hardly surprising for a system that could never hope to factor in such considerations, when everyone's is different anyway! And Fair Deal has rarely been about utility...

More of a case for taking slightly low offers on blue/blue finishes with 23 now, giving a better percentage chance of "spendable money", I.e. £120 for HALF rather than, say, 25p.

Point is, whatever strategy you use, it'd be difficult to achieve a consistently winning gameplay, due to an element known as LUCK. The trouble of course at 3-box for DE here is 2 of the remaining pairs being about £70k AND the median pair value being one of these to skew the benchmark severely...

It's a flaw undoubtedly, but changing the overall methodology for ANY stage seems wrong too. So, we'll just have to settle for the outrageous wins/ appropriate defeats/ pedantic wins etc. these scenarios create!

I was being what one may call... sarcastic. HOWEVER, as creator of Deal-Eye(tm) I thank you for your detailed response back, as I can imagine a very busy schedule you must have

Um... My "schedule" is none of your business and totally irrelevant to a discussion that late at night anyway. If you think that was a smart, clever comment, dream on. I'm just giving a point of view and that's it, don't start making it personal!

I think you'd have to go back to about 2007 for a £52k offer on a board like that!

Joe..............................



An VERY inconsistently cautious Deal at 5 box in the contestant's part (looking at the Fair Deal which is unquestionably a better measure of relative generosity than Deal-Eye) and sadly a blue being in both boxes means Deal-Eye would've got NOTHING out of today's game.

Blimey, someone is tetchy!

Didn't need to be mentioned though. I'm perfectly fine anyway, glad you are too!!

I only said Thanks because with filling out your spreadsheet and other life commitments you must be a pretty busy fellow. I can't help being such a kind-hearted guy

No need for hostility on a forum of such trivial nature, gentlemen...