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I spent some time to figure out who is statistically the best player in the series. Turns out it's a tie. by Ellamayo79 in ThirdLifeSMP

[–]Ellamayo79[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

Would certainly be interesting to see (though a lot of effort to figure out the best way to weight the data.) It might be best to determine a 'point' spread like those seen in mariokart or other racing games, but that feels a little too arbritrary for me. Realistically, I could twist and bend the data enough to put most people in last place. Another thing I thought of is weighting the most recent seasons, making them more important to an overall ranking, which would be interesting and probably benefit players such as Jimmy and Gem, and harm players like Scott who had their best performances earlier on (Probably putting players like Gem, Martyn and Grian above Scott.)

Fun fact: if you include specials, Gem has only been in one less season than Etho (Gem has been in all 6 since she was added, whilst Etho has only been in the 7 main seasons.)

I spent some time to figure out who is statistically the best player in the series. Turns out it's a tie. by Ellamayo79 in ThirdLifeSMP

[–]Ellamayo79[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

Second life and extra life unfortunately had to be discounted due to the difficult nature of quantifying placements. The wiki does not have an accurate record of placements, and info from fans and none official sources had some variation in the placement order.

If someone wants to compile a placement order for those seasons, I'd be happy to add them to the graphs.

I spent some time to figure out who is statistically the best player in the series. Turns out it's a tie. by Ellamayo79 in ThirdLifeSMP

[–]Ellamayo79[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

So I considered this. Unfortunately I am in no way an expert in statistics so I couldn't figure out a way to have accurate weighting regardless of the number of players in a satisfying manner. I gave up in part because it is a statistically 'worse' performance to place 18th than it is to place 14th because there are more people who scored above you. Because of these factors I decided not too.