Every year I make a list of resolutions, and then track them over the following twelve months, because I like spreadsheets and drawing graphs. And I like playing Blood Bowl, so one of them was

Get better at Blood Bowl – up to now, I’ve played 889 games on Fumbbl. I’ve never conceded a game, and I’ve won 154, drawn 149 and lost 586. That’s a 17% win rate, and a 66% lose rate. I want the lose rate to go down, the win rate to go up. Last year I played on average more than once per day – perhaps volume didn’t help so much. I’ll also be trying to write up some of the things I’ve learned here, to ensure I’m codifying my learnings. With the rules having a major overhaul this year, perhaps everything is changing anyway...

My volume fell off a cliff this year; I'm in the middle of renovating my house (to provide a place in the basement for travelling Blood Bowl coaches to stay when they visit my corner of the world to compete in a tournament), I've had big changes at work, and the uncertainty about when Fumbbl would switch to the new rules made some headwinds that discouraged me playing as much as I used to. And one of my other resolutions was to sleep more, not to give in to insomnia and look for Box matches at 3am. So it took me 199 days to play a hundred games this year.

My hundredth game was this one - a terrible outing for a team I don't know how to play properly, where at least my incompetence infected my opponent so he forgot to score a second time.

But that still meant that I'd only lost 52 of the games I've played this year; 24% wins and 24% draws feel like healthy improvements over 17% and 17%. I'd like to say I'd have done better if I hadn't played joke teams like the Scoundrels and my Clan Skyre team, but if you choose to play teams like that, you need to own your choices. And although I haven't crowned myself in glory with my lowish-TV Nurgle Box team, it's not as horrible an experience as people made it out to be.

On to the next 100! Looking forward to getting back in my house, having a decent internet connection, and raising some sort of hell in the Southern Wastes again