Equation 18 · The Type Chart Is a Payoff Matrix, and the Metagame Only Half-Solves It
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Symbol q_i
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Scoring the fit with Kullback–Leibler divergence, = , from the observed August distribution to each candidate: the solved game scores 10.15 bits, the uniform null scores 0.045 bits, and July’s raw persistence scores 0.00068 bits. On a chi-square test against the eight species’ actual August battle counts (summing to 2,137,239 team-appearances, treating each candidate distribution as the expected shares), the solved game scores approximately 2.310^{13} — a figure that large only because the model assigns four real, frequently-played species an expected share of essentially zero, and squaring a large real count against a near-zero…
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Scoring the fit with Kullback–Leibler divergence, = , from the observed August distribution to each candidate: the solved game scores 10.15 bits, the uniform null scores 0.045 bits, and July’s raw persistence scores 0.00068 bits. On a chi-square test against the eight species’ actual August battle counts (summing to 2,137,239 team-appearances, treating each candidate distribution as the expected shares), the solved game scores approximately 2.310^{13} — a figure that large only because the model assigns four real, frequently-played species an expected share of essentially zero, and squaring a large real count against a near-zero expectation explodes the statistic — against 159,897 for uniform and 4,371 for persistence. Every test agrees, and by a wide margin: the equilibrium this piece computed from the actual, official type chart is a dramatically worse predictor of the actual ladder than either “assume no type advantage matters” or “assume nothing changed since last month.”
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