Hello Tributes,
I'm a numbers guy, so I like to know every bit of statistical knowledge I can get my hands on. After figuring out that our leaderboards are easily transferred into a spreadsheet format, I decided to run some stats and see what I can't do. After I got the wealth of knowledge accumulated, I decided to share my findings here.
Document:
The Top Players Stats Document
Note:
- Check the separate sheets at the bottom to look at the data and statistics for the Top 100, Top 250, and Top 500 players combined.
- The document is input by hand, which means it does not update automatically. Hopefully I will make updating the document a weekly affair.
- Not all of the statistics are currently computable. This is mainly for the data for Longest Life and Total Life, because I don't know how to parse a series of characters into integers I can use through GDocs. If anyone knows how, feel free to talk to me.
- Graphs are coming, but with 100 points of data minimum it is very difficult to interpret them.
- I have no intention of going past 500 entries.
- I have no way of efficiently getting a user's ranks from the leaderboards (which is what I'm really curious about).
And for those of you who aren't too familiar with basic statistics, here's a quick run-down of what each mathematical function means:
Got some stats you'd like to see? A graph perhaps? Want to point out some statistics of interest?
Feel free to leave a comment.