strats
Informal gaming approaches
Strats is informal shortening of strategies, common in gaming and business contexts.
Players share strats for defeating bosses or optimizing performance: What strats are you running for this raid?
In finance, strats refers to quantitative strategy teams or their work: The strats team built the pricing model.
Gap or start
- middlegameCentral chess phase
- endgameConcluding phase of competition
- gambitRisky opening for advantage
- sacrificeGiving up something precious
fork · pin · skewer · zugzwang · tempo · development · prophylaxis · counterplay
At the sides of
- encirclementSurrounding enemy forces completely
- blitzkriegFast, overwhelming military campaign
- attritionGradual reduction through loss
- scorched-earthDestroying all resources before retreat
pincer · siege · ambush · guerrilla · deception · feint · counterinsurgency · asymmetric
Methods to achieve goals
- positioningArranging in specific locations
- pivotPoint of rotation
- disruptionForceful interruption of process
- differentiationRecognizing meaningful differences
pricing · acquisition · retention · monetization · scaling · branding · partnerships · diversification
opening
Gap or start
- middlegameCentral chess phase
- endgameConcluding phase of competition
- gambitRisky opening for advantage
sacrifice · fork · pin · skewer · zugzwang · tempo · development · prophylaxis · counterplay · initiative
flanking
At the sides of
- encirclementSurrounding enemy forces completely
- blitzkriegFast, overwhelming military campaign
- attritionGradual reduction through loss
scorched-earth · pincer · siege · ambush · guerrilla · deception · feint · counterinsurgency · asymmetric · deterrence
tactics
Methods to achieve goals
- positioningArranging in specific locations
- pivotPoint of rotation
- disruptionForceful interruption of process
differentiation · pricing · acquisition · retention · monetization · scaling · branding · partnerships · diversification · outsourcing
meta
Self-aware or transcendent
rush · turtle · kiting · minmax · aggro · zoning · ganking · rotation · positioning · snowballing
- speedrunningspeedrun, world record, WR, PB, splits
stratsimprovisation
Spontaneous, unplanned creation
winging it · going with the flow · spontaneity · impulsiveness · reactivity
stratsstrategies
Planned approaches to goals
strategic planning · methodologies · standard operating procedures
- stratospheric ozoneOxygen variant blocking ultraviolet
- ocean stratificationSea divided by density
- lake stratificationTemperature-based water layering
- rock strataLayered geological deposits
- geological strataLayered rock beds
- social stratumRanked societal layer
strat, stratum, strata, stratify, stratified, stratification, stratosphere, stratospheric, substrate