Risk Day 30 - Our Power Is Reaching Obscene Levels....Let's Raise It Even Higher And Step On Some Buckeye Throats.
These numbers are beautiful. Last night, we had more players than any other team, and we had over 4,500 power, which was nearly 1,000 more power than Ohio State and nearly 2k more power than the next most powerful team, Georgia Tech. Last year we were known for our giant army of 1-stars...this year we're also known for our giant army, but this army has some major firepower. Nearly 40% (!!!) of our army is 3 or 4 stars. That's awesome.
However, I don't want to make the mistake of being content. Let's be frank. We've been STOMPED by Ohio State in football lately. It pisses me off, as I'm sure it does all of you. And it makes me want to crush them whenever we have the opportunity. This is an opportunity. While there's no way to change eighteen year-old minds about where to play college football (DO NOT TWEET AT RECRUITS), or help Michigan's defense guard against those damn crossing routes, we can control whether we go to MichiganCFBRisk.com every day, and we can control whether we allow Ohio State to catch up to our power levels.
I know this is a silly game and the outcome doesn't matter for anything but bragging rights among a very small, very nerdy part of the fanbase. But I don't care, because f*ck Ohio State. I want to beat them, and I want to beat them badly. I want to take all those miserable calls against us by Ohio State fanboy refs and use them as fodder to beat their faces in during a game of Risk while the country is on lockdown and sports are non-existent. I WANT TO WIN SOMETHING.
The hard work is already being done by others (the fancy equations, etc.), so I'm going to do my part to win by going to MichiganCFBRisk.com, getting my assignment, and executing it. And I'm going to do that every day, because consistency will help us prevail. I hope you'll join me in taking this opportunity to batter some Buckeyes, even if it's virtually. Go Blue!
Steps To Play Every Day With Hyperlinks: Attached to this post is a PDF with easy to digest instructions and hyperlinks. Below is the same information written out.
- Sign up for a https://reddit.com/ account if you don’t have one already
- Visit https://collegefootballrisk.com/ – Click Sign in with Reddit – Select Michigan as your team
- Visit https://michigancfbrisk.com/ - click “Login using Reddit” – Click “Get an Assignment”
- Return to https://collegefootballrisk.com/ – Scroll to the bottom of the page and execute your assignment (Note: Simply clicking action so that it becomes highlighted gray confirms the move. There’s no submit or confirm button needed)
April 21st, 2020 at 11:41 AM ^
If we have questions about this who should we talk to? My profile says I was "blacklisted for noncompliance" but I don't understand that considering I thought I was always following my daily assignments. I'm a 3 star bordering 4 so I want to make sure I put in my move today and keep my streak alive. Thank you and I apologize if I put in an incorrect move by mistake.
April 21st, 2020 at 12:02 PM ^
Even if you don’t hear back, put in a move for something. They’ve said that the order you get really only affects the group if you get an order and don’t follow it. Putting in a play is good no matter what
April 21st, 2020 at 12:29 PM ^
Agreed. It's best to try to get the issue figured out, but if you're unable to do that, attack a territory currently controlled by Chaos or Ohio State. Neither of those are ever going to interfere with the master plan. And, of course, if you do get an assignment, you can (and should) go back and change your move as necessary.
April 21st, 2020 at 12:55 PM ^
What's your reddit name? The mods can correct that.
Same as it is here, bluedevils11
How come Bluedevils doesn’t have a history here?
April 21st, 2020 at 11:49 AM ^
Go Blue!
April 21st, 2020 at 12:09 PM ^
Wouldn't make a difference to me if we had been killing them on the gridiron.
I'd still be hyper-motivated to kill them here too.
totally where I am at - win at all the things.
also, made 3-star today and playing defense per my orders!
April 21st, 2020 at 12:19 PM ^
This is pathetic.
April 21st, 2020 at 12:35 PM ^
Go lick some white dog shit
April 21st, 2020 at 12:59 PM ^
Leave the "fellas" alone. Keeps them happy, occupied and out of trouble...
Yet here you are.
Commenting on how stupid and pathetic it is that the only thing Michigan can beat Ohio State at are Reddit polls? Yes, I am here to point that out.
April 21st, 2020 at 12:57 PM ^
I am filled with a specific kind of pride that Michigan always does really well in things that the fans can directly influence. Charity drives, risk games, whatever. Would I trade it all for a win over OSU? Absolutely. But this does make me proud.
Seems like we're more motivated by revenge than actual good game theory and strategy. Look where all our territories are, they're right next to OSU. The only way that happens is if we're more obsessed with beating them then beating the game.
We bailed out of the Midwest in the beginning of the game to move out to California and establish a base there.
Just because we’re battling Ohio State doesn’t mean the strategy fell by the wayside in the name of revenge.
Ohio State attacked us in the west and we have tried and succeeded to disrupt their base in the northeast to even the playing field.
Need more people to sign up. It takes 30 seconds a day, and gets more fun after a few turns.
Why so? I just signed up 2 days ago and glad to be helping. Does something change after you have played a few turns?
For one thing, you increase in star power and your actions carry more "weight". Secondly, you get to see strategies play out over the long term.
Need more people to sign up. It takes 30 seconds a day, and gets more fun after a few turns.
Got my second star today.
I'm having trouble understanding how we're only tied for first place in this game when we have had a Substantial lead in star power over the other contenders for many consecutive turns.
We've had about a ~20% star power lead over OSU and ~75% lead over Georgia Tech. If we've had such a consistent lead in star power over several turns, why haven't we been able to build a solid lead in number of territories. Is our fundamental strategy inferior to our opponents? Are the territories in Florida (held by GT) easier to hold because they have less neighbors?
No matter how good your strategy is you are still at the mercy of luck of the roll. Look at some of the individual day battles for a region. Teams with a 5% chance of winning a roll still can and do win sometimes.
Understood completely. Which is why I stressed the long-term consistency of the problem. We have had a ~20% lead over OSU and ~75% lead over GT for at least the last 10 rolls. Yet, we have not been able to separate ourselves. Seems like more than bad luck.
We are directly at war with OSU and A&M. Their star power combined edges us out a bit, but we also have Texas helping us with A&M, so it balances the scale a little bit.
Georgia Tech has done a really good job of staying neutral, so they have been able to claim a region of the map that is free of any serious threat from anyone. And no one wants to go to war with them.
I've been playing/ paying attention to Risk for a couple weeks now and I've had the same question.
You can't just look at individual teams as there are alliances. We are fighting two of the largest forces in OSU and TAMU and they are allied with others like Stanford and Oklahoma (RIP).
That said, I do think that Georgia Tech, OSU, and TAMU have had more protected territories than we have which allow them to punch above their weight. We have been fighting a 2-front war and now have a 3-front war on our hands. I'm not sure that would be a sound strategy in the real world but might work to our advantage in this iteration of Risk as whoever has the most territories after 50 rounds will be the winner.
I'd feel better if we had more protected territories so we wouldn't be stretched so thin but I suppose the flip side to that is that we can strike just about anywhere so we can be more unpredictable.
How do i get Reddit awards? Seems to hold down my star power since I have 0.
That doesn't hold your star power down. Star power is based on a median calculation. The calculation is described here:
https://collegefootballrisk.com/help
Bottome line, if you keep voting your star power will go up despite lack of reddit awards.
From what I can tell, earning a r/CFB award is not easy unless you are a current (or former, I think) collegiate football player, coach, referee or member of the media. Absent one of those, you need to either make a material edit to one of the r/CFB pages or contribute to a r/CFB fundraiser. There don't appear to be any active fundraisers.
April 21st, 2020 at 11:18 PM ^
We need to stop ignoring GT now. They have 29 territories we just lost 6.we down to 16 now. Come on generals get your act together.
April 21st, 2020 at 11:58 PM ^
I'm sure there is a well-thought out strategy and we had some bad luck tonight but can we take a step back and reconsider our strategy? It does seem as if we are spreading ourselves too thin and that leaves us vulnerable not just to OSU and TAMU but to Nebraska and Texas who are attacking us and can pick up some easy territories because it is hard to defend every territory at once while trying to pick up new territories.
I'd rather sacrifice some territories to have a consolidated block with protected territories.
Wisconsin has half of our star power but they have 20 territories. 10 of those are protected so they don't need to put any resources on them. Yesterday we had exactly 1 protected territory and now we have 0.