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Week 7 brought us thirteen events, 1,135 players, and a 482-player Sector Qualifier in London, the largest single event of the season so far. The matchup matrix is back alongside the APR numbers this week, and the timing is solid: the results look, on their face, like a fairly predictable continuation of established trends. Boba and Lando keep winning. Obi-Wan keeps cutting. Luke Skywalker finally wins one (more on that in a moment). But the matrix gives us the tools to ask the more interesting question: are the APR numbers we’re seeing telling us what’s actually happening in the room, or are they partially a function of who’s sitting across the table?

The short answer, as it turns out, is a little of both.

https://swu.report/2026/05/13/the-hub-and-spoke-model/

Six weeks in. Seventy-one events. 4,388 players. Seventy-one winners.

I’ve had something on my mind this week. Not a nagging thought exactly, but after a reader pointed out last week that trend data would be a valuable piece of analysis, I couldn’t help but also think more this week that some of the matchup matrix stats from Meta Stats would also be a valuable piece of the conversation that can help us put a more particular pin on why certain decks are achieving the APRs they are, be that positive or negative.

https://swu.report/2026/05/06/how-solid-is-the-three-column-foundation/

A commenter on Reddit made a fair point after this week’s article: the cumulative APR numbers I’ve been publishing don’t account well for a deck like Tobias Beckett that has been quietly tapering off in recent weeks. They’re right, and I want to address it directly, because I think it points toward the most interesting thing we can do with five weeks of data that we couldn’t do with two.

Cumulative APR is a backward-looking number. Every T8 appearance and win from every event since week one gets folded into a single figure. That’s useful for describing a deck’s overall track record across the season or getting a much better understanding of what happened over at a single large event, but it naturally smooths over what’s happening across time. A deck that dominated weeks one through three and has gone cold since week four still shows a healthy cumulative APR. The trend is invisible.

So lets take a look at the trend lines!

https://swu.report/2026/05/01/a-mea-culpa-on-trend-data/

Back with this week's update to the APR number insight on the LAW metagame.

Five weeks in. Fifty-eight events. 3,686 players. Fifty-eight winners.

Atlanta reshaped the format and week five confirmed it. The format currently has three pillars. Boba / Lake Country, Lando / Lake Country, and Obi-Wan / Blue Force are consuming the top of the meta in a way that nothing else is. If you can beat all three, you’re well positioned. If you can only beat two of them, you’d better know which one you’re giving up before you register.

The APR data broadly confirms this picture while adding some specific textures the community conversation is still working out. Let’s get into it.

https://swu.report/2026/04/29/the-big-three/