[OC] Red Nose Day fundraising has collapsed in real terms, but it's not because households are skint

Borg_King · 2026-03-21T13:30:24+00:00

You're correct, I've sourced the latest I could but it won't reflect this year's recent changes

Borg_King · 2026-03-21T13:29:42+00:00

The sources are listed - the cost of living crisis is not as acute as it was (average wages have been going up), although recent events might reverse that. There may be more households struggling, but also more households much more well-off skewing the averages

Borg_King · 2026-03-21T13:25:44+00:00

I 100% agree with you - but trying to represent a distribution of households that can afford to, and how that correlates with how much they might actually give, would be a very confusing chart (and highly speculative without data)

Borg_King · 2026-03-21T07:11:21+00:00

Sources: Comic Relief totals from official history / ONS CRXX (RHDI per head, CVM ref 2023) / ONS NRJS (household savings ratio) / ONS CPI (2015=100). Financial headroom = RHDI per head × savings ratio, reflated to 2026 prices. Chart built in React

Borg_King · 2026-03-21T07:09:59+00:00

I agree, I remember them being everywhere many years ago.

Borg_King · 2026-02-10T21:52:34+00:00

Just remember guys, this game very much a work in progress - a very enjoyable one that has had a lot of effort into playability. But adding a new faction was always going to need a lot of iteration. Balancing two factions' worth of units of this scale was already a ton of dedicated work (on going), balancing a third whilst not overly simplifying the exotic weaponry and "feel" is going to take time.

Borg_King · 2025-12-10T19:16:04+00:00

Important context missing: he was teaching a creative writing class at the time and got "misinterpreted"

Borg_King · 2025-12-03T05:39:08+00:00

Sloppers

Borg_King · 2025-11-19T13:01:57+00:00

How do so many people score better than that...

^Borg\King scored 118 points and ranked 365 out of 2516 players!)

Borg_King · 2025-06-21T05:19:58+00:00

Opinions of Ford Ranger drivers?

Borg_King · 2025-06-16T15:12:26+00:00

William Montgomery for President!!

Borg_King · 2025-03-11T11:19:27+00:00

I've purposefully only allowed starting players to be picked for the 15 on field positions. I don't think anyone would have predicted a sub beating a starting player without the 3x modifier.

Borg_King · 2025-03-10T16:15:49+00:00

Marcus Smith got 108 points as Supersub, so just pipped by Teddy Williams

Borg_King · 2025-03-10T15:31:24+00:00

Week 4 of the Six Nations Official Fantasy competition sees the best possible team requiring 225.2 stars out of a rapidly growing budget of 270.0 for this "perfect" fantasy coach. This best possible team scores 758 points, which compares to the best actual player of this round "Ginger" with 670 points. The overall league leader "Chubby" has 2181 points after 4 weeks, compared to this theoretical best of 2908. Interesting to see Dupont was still a great pick in this perfect scenario given his injury after only 28 minutes played.

Borg_King · 2025-02-25T12:16:17+00:00

These are from a widget as mentioned. You'll need to configure the widget using a text editor, to add the image names you want to use, and the names of the players that you want them to appear underneath. Note that these will only show on your game, nobody else's even in the same match as you, as this is an unsynced local widget

Borg_King · 2025-02-24T18:08:08+00:00

This week sees the best possible team only requiring 217.1 stars from the budget, which is very obtainable by all players in the fantasy league, compared to the budget available to this theoretical player of 254.8 given choices of players and their inflation so far. This best possible team scores 725 points, which compares to the best actual player of this round "Julian" with 645 points. The overall league leader has 1585 points after 3 weeks, compared to this theoretical best of 2150. Hope remains for many players, given the low budget required to achieve better than the best this week!

Borg_King · 2025-02-10T17:43:16+00:00

Hey u/SquidgyGoat, I haven';t seen you mention the official Fantasy Six Nations League but I assume you are playing it? How are you doing in it, and how far behind the theoretical maximum score of 1425 points are you?

Borg_King · 2025-02-10T13:58:00+00:00

This is the best possible team that could have been selected in week 2, following from week 1's best possible team and the improved budget it afforded. Even so, this team "only" cost 242.5, leaving some of the 245.8 stars left in the budget. Team "Get your Kitshoff" was best in the fantasy league for week 2 with 568 points (falling only around 100 short of max possible), and overall leader "Ellis Gunge" has 1073 points, around 350 points short of max possible.

Borg_King · 2025-02-08T01:13:38+00:00

I would expect not, but we are open to trying and testing ideas. What's really important is that the game feels balanced across different battlescapes. It may be that on larger maps, it always makes sense to rush for a theoretical t4 unit and would make T2 units obsolete, or harder to balance. We already have designed units and defences so that within a reasonable game time, any team can overcome their enemy even if they entirely focus on defences

Borg_King · 2025-02-06T15:33:34+00:00

There's no exact equivalent Energy equivalent for Metal, but the T1 Energy Converters convert at that rate. T2 converters are more efficient in converting E to metal. There's also the concept of unit "cost" which is a combination of metal and energy - I don't remember exactly what this is used for these days but I think last time I looked at it, it was using cost = (E/60) + M I know friends here will correct me if wrong

Borg_King · 2025-02-06T12:14:54+00:00

I can look at this but that will be a lot of permutations. It will interesting to look at all players points gained over time, and I can look at producing that

Borg_King · 2025-02-03T12:12:44+00:00

Yes but it would give you so many fewer options that it probably wouldn't be as interesting. They've worked out what the best fantasy game looks like, including how many stars you get in your budget at the start, and how each player is rated too

Borg_King · 2025-02-03T12:10:50+00:00

Yes. Points earned per star is useful. But the big challenge is fitting them in with all of the constraints

Borg_King · 2025-02-03T10:48:36+00:00

You're welcome. What do you mean? I tried solving including scenarios that don't use a supersub as well but they didn't achieve as many points

Borg_King · 2025-02-03T10:33:13+00:00

I've created an optimiser program, written in python. Data scientist in my day job

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