"I suppose it would be a good experiment to write down the scores and compare them over a long progress,"
Okay now! Tonight I decided to put this down to a test... I decided in the art of science, to burn off a bunch of gauntlets and check the results. I was in the middle of a decent streak when I started this. Below are the results.:
Opponent Left, Me on the Right (yeah, I know this is reverse from how we normally look at it. Sorry)
1,061,300 * 1,602,200
1,113,800 * 1,755,400
1,915,650 * 1,032,000 Lose Streak
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299,750 * 597,550
331,800 * 1,039,000
714,200 * 2,008,900
666,000 * 1,198,500
795,650 * 1,778,450
950,300 * 2,116,750
1,118,600 * 2,323,450
1,214,800 * 1,217,100
[Forgot to record one (I won though)]
2,011,450 * 1,866,750 Lose Streak
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347,750 * 319,500 Lose Streak
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176,350 * 36,000 (I won with less points somehow? But game crashed! lol) Bugged game!
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I stand behind my original theory. And it should be rather obvious from the results, the deeper the streak you are, the tuffer the opposition. The points you have to beat creep up fast, and when you finally restart that streak, you can expect up to a factor of 10 times the easiness to return, until you climb back up. 🙂
Note: I purposely played a lot of weird and horrible strategies for variance in the results (and so I could lose a few times), like boards full of lightning reeds and other JUNK. So you all had better appreciate what I did for you. lol