Home Advantage
It’s something I’ve never really thought about in the solo game, but I know plenty of other players who have, and it never ceases to amaze me at the lengths some players go, in their pursuit of what they perceive as realism in their games. I recently had a pleasant email exchange with Phil Marsden creator of the “Alive and Flicking” Facebook Group who told me about his LOGacta based system to decide if any team in a match had an advantage. If you’re not familiar with the L OG acta principle it was a dice game that was on sale during the mid 70’s and into the 80’s. I t basically consisted of different coloured dice which whereby a league season including cup competitions could be simulated by rolling dice which were all biased differently. Each team w as given a dice to roll in a match, which dice they rolled was dependant on whether that team was playing at home or away, it’s league position compared to it’s opponent, and the kind of form that team was in at the time