How it works — Analytics Methodology

Tournament data, decoded.

Six steps from raw competitive results to the analytics that power every page on Vexillon.

Real Tournament Data

We collect results exclusively from competitive events that meet a minimum quality bar — at least 5 rounds played and at least 20 players. This filters out casual one-off events so that every data point in the system comes from a genuine competitive environment where players are actually trying to win.

Decoding Every Army List

Every submitted army list is automatically read and broken down — which units each player brought, how they configured them, and which detachment they ran. This gives us a granular picture of what players are actually fielding at a competitive level, not just who won.

What Actually Wins Games

For every unit in every detachment, we compare performance across games where that unit was included against games where it wasn't. This is how we separate units that genuinely shift outcomes from units that simply appear in winning armies by coincidence — correlation isn't causation, and we account for that.

Spotting Optimised Lists

Using that performance data, we identify the army lists that are most stacked with high-impact units for their chosen detachment. These aren't cherry-picked — a list qualifies based entirely on what it contains. If the unit choices are statistically loaded with high-impact picks for that detachment, it's optimised.

The Optimised Win Rate

We measure how those optimised lists actually perform. This gives a much cleaner read on what a faction can achieve at its ceiling — because it strips out experimental, casual, or under-tuned lists that drag the raw average down and obscure the true competitive picture.

Insight You Can Actually Use

All of this feeds into the Tier List, Faction Analytics, and Army Optimiser. Whether you're picking your first army, preparing for a tournament, or planning your next purchase — you're working from real data, presented clearly, so you can make confident decisions without needing a statistics degree.