Maps per player stat?

[InkL0sed]

So I was thinking about how the number of maps on this site has been growing steadily, and moreover wondering whether the average map gets the same amount of play as it used to, say, a year ago.


I'm basically wondering if there's any way to find out what the ratio was with every new batch of maps? It'd be interesting to know how that ratio has changed, or if it's remained basically constant.

[Coleman]

When I read the topic title I was thinking more along the lines of being able to see how many different people actually play each map, versus how many games of each map there has been, which is what cairnswk is tracking.

I have no idea how much work it would be to figure that out, but it would require some pretty intense data mining tools that I don't currently have, and I'm not 100% sure it was what you were asking. I'm going to wait a day and hope someone shows up who knows.

[edbeard]

I think he's saying basically if you look at each map individually by total games of that map / total games of all maps how does it compare last summer to this summer.


Regarding standard maps, I think if the maps that were released last summer were released today, they'd get more play. If you look at the newly released maps and the ones released before, I don't think there's a large difference in quality of the maps. Yet, the difference in popularity seems large.

Now I have nothing to back that newer maps actually get more play than older ones. It's just an impression I get at looking at cairnswk's stats.

[wcaclimbing]

I think he's saying basically if you look at each map individually by total games of that map / total games of all maps how does it compare last summer to this summer.

I agree. thats probably it.

Although, when I read the title first, I thought he was asking for some kind of profile stat telling how many maps a person has made.....

[Ditocoaf]

He's speaking plain english.

There are currently 87 maps. There are currently 216627 members. That's 0.0004 maps per member. He's wondering if the number of maps has grown at about the same rate as the number of CC players has grown.

It would probably be easier to keep track of the ratio as players to maps, so there are currently about 2490 CC members per CC map. I too would be interested to see how that number has changed over time... I'm betting the number of players has accelerated, but so has the number of maps... so it might actually be about the same ratio over time.


EDIT:
The reason he said "whether the average map gets the same amount of play as it used to, say, a year ago" -- if there are a lot more maps per player now, then the average map isn't played as often (of course, maps like classic are played more, but obscure maps like discworld are actually played less, because there are so many more maps). However, if there are less maps per player now, then the average map is played more often.

of course, this assumes that the average player is just about as active as he used to be.

[InkL0sed]

#-o

He's speaking plain english.

There are currently 87 maps. There are currently 216627 members. That's 0.0004 maps per member. He's wondering if the number of maps has grown at about the same rate as the number of CC players has grown.

It would probably be easier to keep track of the ratio as players to maps, so there are currently about 2490 CC members per CC map. I too would be interested to see how that number has changed over time... I'm betting the number of players has accelerated, but so has the number of maps... so it might actually be about the same ratio over time.


EDIT:
The reason he said "whether the average map gets the same amount of play as it used to, say, a year ago" -- if there are a lot more maps per player now, then the average map isn't played as often (of course, maps like classic are played more, but obscure maps like discworld are actually played less, because there are so many more maps). However, if there are less maps per player now, then the average map is played more often.

of course, this assumes that the average player is just about as active as he used to be.

Yep, that's what I meant.

Of course, I wasn't feeling very, shall we say, expressive when I made that post. I had the feeling I was being unclear.

[t-o-m]

it would be interesting to see what ranked players play more of X map and play less of X map.

e.g low ranks paly doodle a lot and dont play waterloo (i dont think) and the other way around for higher rankers.