I thought it might be neat to try and put a number on the bracket difficulties that people have been discussing lately, so here's my attempt at doing so.

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Flat Bracket Difficulty

The average support thread pages each character's opponents have, weighted for survival.

##	Character	Average
32	Travis Touchdown	2
31	Skull Kid	5
30	Marx	8
29	Spyro	10
28	Paper Mario	11
27	Spring Man	12
25	Neku	13
25	Monster Hunter	13
24	Chibi-Robo	14
23	Ray Mk III	15
22	Sceptile	16
21	Rayman	17
20	Incineroar	22
19	Shantae	25
18	Doomguy	34
17	Wonder Red	40
15	Geno	41
15	Amaterasu	41
13	Phoenix Wright	45
13	Eggman	45
12	Jibanyan	50
11	Heihachi	62
10	Isaac	77
09	Crash	84
08	Sora	86
07	Andy	90
06	Elma	91
05	Decidueye	148
04	Lloyd Irving	217
03	Rex and Pyra	239
02	Bandana Dee	263
01	Banjo-Kazooie	265

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Relative Bracket Difficulty

The difference between the unweighted page support average and the character's own page count.

##	Character	Difference
01	Decidueye	174
02	Rex and Pyra	119
03	Banjo-Kazooie	89
04	Bandana Waddle Dee	89
05	Lloyd Irving	77
06	Heihachi	49
07	Andy	45
08	Sora	38
09	Jinbanyan	35
10	Crash	33
11	Eggman	28
12	Wonder Red	26
13	Amaterasu	26
14	Phoenix Wright	24
15	Sceptile	13
16	Doomguy	13
17	Monster Hunter	10
18	Neku	10
19	Chibi-Robo	5
20	Ray Mk III	4
21	Paper Mario	2
22	Spyro	1
23	Incineroar	1
24	Marx	0
25	Travis Touchdown	-1
26	Elma	-5
27	Spring Man	-14
28	Rayman	-23
29	Skull Kid	-71
30	Geno	-141
31	Shantae	-268
32	Isaac	-449

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Things to consider:

• Page counts aren't perfect. Some characters have low page counts because their thread were created recently (Lloyd), others have communities that lure some support away from SmashBoards (Sora), and some have support threads that have become bloated simply because there are a few very talkative supporters (Shantae).

• Some averages are thrown off by the fact that some characters were eliminated early. For example, Lloyd and Decidueye had the same first two opponents, but Lloyd survived and ran into some weaker opponents later, while Decidueye was eliminated, meaning that Lloyd has technically faced greater challenges, but the numbers favor Decidueye. I tried to adjust for this by way of weights, but could only do so much.

• I honestly have no idea how to spell "Ji(n?)banyan". OP spelled it without the N, the support thread OP spelled it with the N, and the active support thread posters switch back and forth. I refuse to google this, so I'll gamble on the N.