A

• Raider Aimless

• Air Raid

• Alpha Bravo

• Arcee

B

• Barrage

• Blaster

• Bumblebee

• Bumblebee

C

• Raider Caliburst

• Chop Shop

• Cliffjumper

• Sergeant Cog

D

• Dead End

• Demolisher

E

• Eject

F

• Private Firedrive

• Fireflight

• Private Fixit

• Flamewar

G

• Grimlock

H

• Autobot Hot Rod

I

• Captain Impactor

• Raider Ion Storm

• Ironhide

J

• Captain Jetfire

k

• Kickback

L

• Private Lionizer

M

• Lord Megatron

• Motormaster

N

• Nemesis Prime

• Raider Nightflight

• Autobot Novastar

• Raider Nova Storm

O

• Octone

• General Optimus Prime

• General Optimus Prime

• Optimus Prime

P

• Prowl

• Prowl

R

• Ramhorn

• Ransack

• Private Red Heat

• Red Alert

S

• Major Shockwave

• Raider Sights

• Silverbolt

• Insecticon Skrapnel

• Skydive

• Sergeant Springer

• Private Stakeout

• Steeljaw

• Raider Storm Cloud

• Dinobot Swoop

T

• Raider Tailwind

• Thrust

• Raider Triggerhappy

• Private Turbo Board

V

• Private Vanguard

W

• Wheeljack

Decklists Included

13 Tournaments:

• Origins Open 2019

• Gen Con 2019

• European Energon Open 2019

• PPT Columbus 2019

• ACC 2019

• PPT Dallas 2019

• Energon Invitational 2019

• PPT Las Vegas 2019

• PPT Orlando Invitational 2019

• Corona Cup #3

• VS's Alpha Trion Championship

• Corona Cup #4

• Freedom Cup

85 decklists:

• no Wave 1 list

• 8 Wave 2 lists

• 26 Wave 3 lists

• 24 Wave 4 lists

• 27 Wave 5 lists

Known Biases

Other than the obvious bias due to the limited number of tournament decks considered, there are other known features of our data to keep in mind.

1. Different tournament structures

In particular, tournaments differ for number of participants and top cut rules. Only top decks are included, but they don't always account for the same fraction of all the decks in the tournament.

2. Waves are unevenly represented

For example, there are more that three times as many wave 4 lists than wave 2 lists in these data.

3. Origins & Gen Con 2019

The top 8 lists from Origins 2019 are not the result of a top 8 cut, as players were allowed to play a different deck during the invitational part of the tournament. 5 of the 13 entries of Optimus Prime, Battlefield Legend shown in the "number of decks" chart come from that tournament. The same is true about Gen Con 2019, and the top 8 decks included here are the result of 2 direct elimination rounds starting from 32 new decks.

4. Old vs. new characters

This "number of decks" chart tends to favor older characters, as they had more chances to be featured in a list.

Relative Frequency

Our second chart is partially fixing biases 2 and 4. The occurrence number of each character (as shown in the "number of decks" chart) is divided by the total number of lists that character could have been part of. For example, Flamewar, Veteran Decepticon is a Wave 1 character. Therefore, she could have appeared in any deck, and her "relative frequency" is 14/85 = 16%. On the contrary, Captain Jetfire, Engineering · Air Guardian is a Wave 4 characters, he couldn't have appeared in more than 51 lists, and was in 4 of them. His relative frequency is 8%.

This measure is also affected by a bias, as it favors recent characters when recent data is insufficient. For example, if the first event of a new wave features the same new character in all top 4 decks, this measure will assign 100% frequency to that character.