ZakStunts 2013 - Useless stats

[CTG]

Now he's a stunts ghost. Fine.

Or a pipsqueak, named after the astronaut.

[BonzaiJoe]

Gagarin is a ghost, of course, and so is ADPunk.

[CTG]

Gagarin is a ghost, of course, and so is ADPunk.

Gagarin is considered as my ghost.
ADPunk?

[alanrotoi]

ADPunk is mine. I was tired to be beaten by my own ghosts. I was so wrong! I should have 4 championships under my name now. I guess now it's too late. Oh!

[CTG]

ADPunk is mine. I was tired to be beaten by my own ghosts. I was so wrong! I should have 4 championships under my name now. I guess now it's too late. Oh!

muhaha

[CTG]

I wonder if Meganium had a spy in Yellow Fleas or not....

[alanrotoi]

Had? We have!

[CTG]

Had? We have!

He admitted!!! 

[alanrotoi]

Yep. Renato is our spy.

[CTG]

So you are Biker.

[CTG]

A few numbers about replay sending habits...

Number of replays in the last season: 797
Number of days when an active ZakStunts was available: 345 (2.31 replays/day)
Number of days when any replays were sent: 186

Number of replays on each days of the week:

81 - Monday
153 - Tuesday (without the rampage day mentioned below, it's only 92)
99 - Wednesday
125 - Thursday
142 - Friday
99 - Saturday
98 - Sunday

Average number of replays for each days of the months:

8.58 - 1st (track was active only in 3 months)
8.40 - 2nd (5 months)
7.25 - 3rd (8 months)
6.58 - 4th
5.50 - 5th
2.83 - 6th
3.00 - 7th
2.42 - 8th
7.42 - 9th (but with an incredible CTG rampage - 62 replays! - in December; calculating with the "effective" replays: 2.33)
1.75 - 10th
1.83 - 11th
1.75 - 12th
0.33 - 13th
0.42 - 14th
0.50 - 15th
1.17 - 16th
0.25 - 17th
0.58 - 18th
0.50 - 19th
0.25 - 20th
0.00 - 21st (WOW!!!)
0.92 - 22nd
0.50 - 23rd
0.50 - 24th
0.75 - 25th
1.25 - 26th
0.33 - 27th
1.67 - 28th
1.45 - 29th (11 months)
3.27 - 30th (11 months)
14.71 - 31st (7 months)

The different length of the months could be a bit disturbing (28-31 days/track), so the stats were "normalized" as follows: I took the first 14 days and the last 14 days of each races - the rest of the days were handled separately (only 9 days in the whole year, with 7 replays...). So, let's see a little bit different list:

8.58 - Day 1
7.58 - Day 2
3.25 - Day 3
4.75 - Day 4
3.92 - Day 5
8.42 - Day 6 (without December: 3.33)
1.92 - Day 7
0.92 - Day 8
1.25 - Day 9
1.58 - Day 10
1.17 - Day 11
0.92 - Day 12
0.67 - Day 13
0.17 - Day 14
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0.78 - "middle days" (as mentioned above)
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0.83 - Day 14B (=14th day from the back)
0.42 - Day 13B
0.67 - Day 12B
0.00 - Day 11B
0.33 - Day 10B
0.67 - Day 9B
0.33 - Day 8B
0.75 - Day 7B
1.00 - Day 6B
0.75 - Day 5B
0.58 - Day 4B
1.42 - Day 3B
2.58 - Day 2B (first quiet day)
10.42 - Day 1B (second quiet day)

As you can see, only the first 6 days and the quiet days are over the average.

What will we see, if the races are divided into quarters? One quarter is more or less a week, so, for the simplicity I will call them a week. The differences in number of sent replays are shocking:

470 - 1st week (59.0%)
80 - 2nd week (10.0%)
37 - 3rd week (4.6%)
210 - 4th week (26.4%)

Quite a strange pattern...Btw who do you think the most active pipsqueaks were in each periods?

1st week

146 - CTG
76 - Renato Biker
42 - Akoss Poo
40 - dreadnaut
34 - AbuRaf70
24 - Duplode
22 - Alan Rotoi
20 - Friker
19 - ADPunk
17 - Chulk
9 - Zak McKracken
7 - SuperBrian
5 - Mr. P.C.
5 - Usrin
2 - Miro
1 - dstien
1 - JoSi

2nd week

17 - CTG
12 - Renato Biker
12 - Duplode
11 - AbuRaf70
6 - Alan Rotoi
6 - Friker
4 - Akoss Poo
4 - Chulk
2 - dreadnaut
1 - ADPunk
1 - Zak McKracken
1 - Usrin
1 - Miro
1 - DieselJoe
1 - satanziege

3rd week

6 - Alan Rotoi
6 - Friker
5 - AbuRaf70
5 - dreadnaut
4 - CTG
4 - Duplode
2 - Renato Biker
2 - Akoss Poo
1 - Chulk
1 - Zak McKracken
1 - Kalifa

4th week

73 - CTG ()
16 - dreadnaut
16 - Akoss Poo
15 - SuperBrian
14 - AbuRaf70
14 - Duplode
11 - dstien
8 - Usrin
7 - Renato Biker
7 - Chulk
7 - Miro
5 - Friker
4 - Alan Rotoi
4 - Zak McKracken
2 - DieselJoe
2 - satanziege
2- JoSi
1- ADPunk
1 - Fredmen67
1 - Goyo

Replay distribution for each week per pipsqueak (sending at least 10 replays, in percent of his own replays):

53.1 - 17.2 - 7.8 - 21.9 - AbuRaf70
90.5 - 4.8 - 0.0 - 4.8 - ADPunk
65.6 - 6.3 - 3.1 - 25.0 - Akoss Poo
57.9 - 15.8 - 15.8 - 10.5 - Alan Rotoi
58.6 - 13.8 - 3.4 - 24.1 - Chulk
60.8 - 7.1 - 1.7 - 30.4 - CTG ("master" of quiet days - probably the only chance versus RBI)
63.5 - 3.2 - 7.9 - 25.4 - dreadnaut
8.3 - 0.0 - 0.0 - 91.7 - dstien (specialist of last minute racing for fun)
44.4 - 22.2 - 7.4 - 22.2 - Duplode
54.1 - 16.2 - 16.2 - 13.5 - Friker
20.0 - 10.0 - 0.0 - 70.0 - Miro
78.4 - 12.4 - 2.1 - 7.2 - Renato Biker (typical pattern: killer shots in the first days, lazy ending... quite a simple strategy, it's way to easy to fight against that - but only if you are fast enough to catch those incredible early replays)
31.8 - 0.0 - 0.0 - 68.2 - SuperBrian
35.7 - 7.1 - 0.0 - 57.1 - Usrin
60.0 - 6.7 - 6.7 - 26.7 - Zak McKracken

One more thing about pipsqueaks: which day of the week is their "Stunts day" (starting with Monday)?

AbuRaf70
6 - 11 - 12 - 10 - 7 - 8 - 10; quite a balanced one, but still: Wednesday

ADPunk
2 - 0 - 3 - 5 - 5 - 3 - 3; Thursday/Friday

Akoss Poo
1 - 12 - 15 - 20 - 9 - 5 - 2; what a nice distribution!; Thursday

Alan Rotoi
6 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 11 - 4 - 8; Friday

Chulk
2 - 4 - 6 - 4 - 6 - 5 - 2; Wednesday/Friday

CTG
35 - 74 - 27 - 23 - 39 - 24 - 18; it seems to be Tuesday, but without 9th December, Tuesdays are far the weakest (only 13!), so it's clearly Friday

dreadnaut
4 - 8 - 6 - 15 - 16 - 7 - 7; Friday

dstien
2 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 3 - 1 - 3; Friday/Sunday

Duplode
3 - 9 - 4 - 6 - 9 - 7 - 16; outstanding Sunday

Friker
2 - 2 - 6 - 6 - 2 - 10 - 9; weekend flea, Saturday

Miro
0 - 0 - 3 - 2 - 2 - 1 - 2; Wednesday

Renato Biker
3 - 21 - 6 - 23 - 21 - 15 - 8; somebody hates Mondays... favorite one: Thursday

SuperBrian
0 - 4 - 2 - 4 - 7 - 1 - 4; another anti-Mondayist; Friday

Usrin
4 - 1 - 3 - 3 - 1 - 1 - 1; the only pure Mondayist

Zak McKracken
4 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 2 - 4 - 4; Saturday/Sunday/Monday

And last but not least, the visual time scale of replay sending activity during an average race in ZakStunts...

[alanrotoi]

Wow very nice work!

So I race when nobody does. I lead the 3rd week.

[zaqrack]

Very nice!

Makes me think we would need two-weeks long races. 

[alanrotoi]

Not a bad idea. A 6 month championship or 24 races per year championship?

Half year championship
PRO
- Tight results
- Easier for lazy pipsqueaks
- Easier for not top pipsqueaks
- Good system for few number of pipsqueaks like now

CONS
- No room for error or missing a race (it may be a pro too)
- No ultra super duper replays because the lack of time (btw it's about years it doesn't happen)

I support this idea!

[CTG]

- No ultra super duper replays because the lack of time (btw it's about years it doesn't happen)

Check Biker's stats. He can do it even in a one-week race.

Btw I also like the idea of shorter races - however, it would need a double effort from the competition management. It sounds quite impossible, since Zak has a family and an exhausting job.