Ecological tournament variant

[langner]

I'm not sure if it was organized by Axelrod, but there was a subsequent "ecological" tournament where each strategy was represented by some number of copies. The tournament consisted of ~1000 generations, and at the beginning of each generation the population of a strategy was set based on its score in the previous round.

This interesting variant could be easily built on top of the current code.

[langner]

Of course, this tournament can be based on the average payoff matrix determined in the round robin phase.

[drvinceknight]

I'd not heard of this subsequent tournament: sounds like a great idea though. I wrote some code that allowed for a genetic algorithm to be applied to any normal form game (I used it for this screencast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz-lZy0AKRI)... I like the idea of this 👍

[drvinceknight]

Not sure if the PR is still coming: just a thought that it could be nice to start seperating things. So this could live in it's own file under axelrod/? Similarly I might pull the players out in to their own file... Just to keep things tidy. Any reason not to do this?

[drvinceknight]

BOOM @langner killed this one with 062be93 :D