SKABB League

The Bloodweiser Keg (or its less politically correctly named predecessor) has been a mainstay of BloodBowl inducements for as long as I’ve been playing the game. If you’ve got some inducement cash and you don’t know what to do with it, one or – even better – two kegs is the way to go. It is a great fallback, and never really looked upon as a bad decision. I was wondering if the maths backs this up. What is it? A Bloodweiser Keg allows you to add +1 to any knockout recovery rolls made during the game, meaning a player returns to the game on a 3+. If you buy two, then you are making all recovery rolls on a 2+. Each keg costs 50,000, and you cannot buy more than 2.  The mathematics Each keg you buy means you will return a player to the game on average 1 in 6 times more than you would have previously. Looking at this on a percentage basis, we have the following return rates: Number of kegs Returns on Return % 0 4+ 50%...

Like Martin Luther King, I had a dream. And like all good dreams, it was borne out of jealousy. I had seen that the North-East and Wales had tournament series, and I was disappointed that they were too far away for me to compete in. Therefore, I decided to try to put one together for the South-East. After chatting to a number of tournament organisers (TOs) that I knew or knew of and also badgering a couple of people who hadn’t run events to run them, it started to look like a viable proposition. There was enough interest to make it a reality. I thought it might be interesting to document the process, what happened and my thoughts on it. The NAF has started to promote tournament series a bit more now including providing pins for the winners, and it might be useful for anyone wanting to put on a series to follow through what happened with the South-East Tournament Series (SETS). Hopefully it will also be interesting for other readers too. What is a Tournament Series? A tourna...