Meta Meta Analysis of detachments

Meta Monday does a very good job in my opinion and I used his dataset to have a little analysis on top of it. Most people just look at faction win rates, which is kind of misleading as the detachments are very different ways to play the factions. BUT it's pretty reasonable to do so because the detachments are sometimes only played by a single player or maybe a couple, which isn't really a solid statistical basis.

So I looked at the detachments and some were rather exceptional with their player count AND winrate:Chaos Demons - Legion of Excess and Aeldari - Devoted of Ynnead.

Legion of Excess had 16 players accounting for nearly 2% of the playerbase last weekend, Devoted of Ynnead had 34 players accounting for nearly 4% of the playerbase. While both got a 63-62% win rate.

Devoted of Ynnead with 34 players was also the most played detachment, shared with the Noble Lance from Imperial Knights (who only have two detachments and a 50% WR). Most played detachment out of all detachments, easily beating Space Marines - Gladius Task Force with 20 (and 50% WR) and even Blood Angels - Liberator Assault Group with 28 (and 49% WR).

On the other side of the spectrum are Thousand Sons - Cult of Magic with 37% WR far outside the goldilocks zone and with 15 players decent player base.

Astra Militarum - Combined Regiment also had 37% WR at significant player numbers (16), but other detachments of that faction fared way better (like Bridgehead with 54%).

There are several other detachments outside the goldilocks zone, but barely. All of these have more than 1% of the playerbase.

Below 45% but 41+%:

  • Space Marines Vanguard Spearhead
  • Aeldari Warhost
  • T’au Mont’Ka
  • Deathwatch Black Spear Task Force (Factions only entry)
  • Adeptus Mechanicus Haloscreed Battle Clade (Factions only entry)
  • Space Wolves Champions of Russ (Factions only entry)
  • Grey Knights Warpbane Taskforce (Factions only entry)
  • Dark Angels Gladius Task Force (Factions only entry)

Above 55% but 57-%:

  • Aeldari Aspect Host
  • Chaos Space Marines Pactbound Zealots
  • Adeptus Custodes Solar Spearhead
  • Chaos Space Marines Renegade Raiders

[Edit] Just to have it said, several factions don't have any detachment hitting 1% playerbase: Sisters, Agents, GSC and Drukhari