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| Topic | Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1327 |
| LusterSoldier 03/11/20 12:46:11 AM #337 | AxemRedRanger posted... The main Waluigi reddit rally thread had ~656 points as of the poll closing. Should have had some additional people getting linked by that and voting Waluigi without upvoting it but then a few people linked by it also would have voted a non-Waluigi option so they might cancel each other out. The poll is still running right now. It started at 1:00 AM because of the DST switch. Moving the poll start time back to 12:00 AM requires Allen (or another admin) to make a manual adjustment to the start time every single time we have a DST switch to keep the start time at 12:00 AM all year round. The next poll will start in less than 15 minutes from now. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 281: Wuhan Flu to the Polls |
| LusterSoldier 03/11/20 12:27:10 AM #398 | red13n posted... (I hate young people more every day, personally). You know that's very ironic because you are much closer in age to the young people than the older people. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1327 |
| LusterSoldier 03/10/20 10:10:50 PM #327 | @creativename creativename posted... I see my poll code has a 7:00PM start time. Were the polls not at midnight last contest? Yeah, they weren't at midnight last contest. In the last contest, the polls started at 8:00 PM EST before shifting to 7:00 PM EST after the November DST switch. All of the polls will start at 8:00 PM EST for this contest. Due to the contest being delayed to March 19th (for the first day of matches), that means the first poll ID for this contest has been pushed back as well. Here's all of the relevant poll ID milestones you need to know for your match updater: 7908 - First Poll ID of contest, 4 matches per day 8004 - Start of 2 matches per day 8019 - Last Poll ID before the 6 day break begins 8020 - Contest resumes again with 2 matches per day 8032 - Start of 1 match per day 8034 - Final Poll ID of contest --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1327 |
| LusterSoldier 03/10/20 10:04:49 PM #326 | Advokaiser posted... Well, in terms of contest stats, wouldn't "best game" be the trusty result? No, "favorite game" would be more reflective of game strength in a contest setting. When you ask for "best game", it gets people to take off their nostalgia glasses and take a more objective look at all of the games in the poll before making their vote. With "favorite game", people don't put as much thought into their game and nostalgia is a bigger factor in their vote. Mario World and Mario 64 both did better in the "favorite game" polls than when it was "best game". Mario 3 and Galaxy 1 were 2 games that did better in the poll that was worded as "best game" compared to "favorite game". --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1327 |
| LusterSoldier 03/10/20 6:55:36 PM #312 | AxemRedRanger posted... https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7577 Leonhart4 posted... It already won pretty convincingly in a Favorite Smash game poll I don't even trust that poll because it was worded as "best all-time", not "favorite". There's a difference between "best game" and "favorite game" on how voters interpret this. I have talked about the difference between "best game" and "favorite game" in the past, most notably when we had 2D and 3D Mario polls as those are the only 2 polls we've had using both the "best game" and "favorite game" wording in the poll question. So we got 2 sets of data points to compare the effect of the "best game" to "favorite game" in the poll question wording. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1327 |
| LusterSoldier 03/10/20 2:07:33 PM #295 | Leonhart4 posted... Haven't seen an outside site care about an ordinary POTD since Battletoads! This poll got rallied hard: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/4666- There was somewhere in the range of about 12000 rallied votes in that poll by my estimates. I even have poll updates for it right here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oTfuHQCScXD3ee557WFAJbJM7PclHrDL1QKyWXuVANc/pub The time periods featuring detectable levels of rallying are shown in light blue. AxemRedRanger posted... waluigi rally detected The rally seems to be working based on the poll graphs for this poll. The largest increase in Waluigi's percentage seems to be happening after 12:00 PM EST (rally topic was posted at 11:46 AM). --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | You know admins are boomers when they include Waluigi over Rosalina |
| LusterSoldier 03/10/20 10:59:28 AM #16 | NeoElfboy posted... Is there any other cast where a similar phenomenon is observed? Leon already pointed out the CT character cast, but Sonic is probably the same way based on this one poll we got a long time ago: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/581- Although that is a Sonic Adventure series character poll and not a general Sonic character poll. So this phenomenon has been seen with Mario, CT, and Sonic characters. However, it hasn't been seen with the Street Fighter II character polls, where Ryu has won all of them fairly easily. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/6239- https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/3967- --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1327 |
| LusterSoldier 03/10/20 10:42:44 AM #288 | There could very well have been another Nintendo boost after the release of the Switch, since the 2015 version of this poll was pre-Switch and during the darkest years for Nintendo. But even then, Mario has gained less than 1% compared to the 2015 poll and is only ahead of Luigi due to him dropping 3% since 2015. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1327 |
| LusterSoldier 03/10/20 1:00:25 AM #276 | Favorite Mario character poll today: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7898- --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | The Show EP 1 - The Glorious Return of GotD! Breaking down the bracket w/ Leon |
| LusterSoldier 03/08/20 6:13:47 PM #215 | LeonhartFour posted... And a brand name like Mortal Kombat is a bit different. I just don't think the name Dragon Ball is enough on its own to win a match against a game people probably know. Batman and Spider-Man can be popular here because their games fit the GameFAQs brand. I don't know if Dragon Ball qualifies. I would say genre of the game is far more important than the brand name. A Dragon Ball RPG would have a higher potential strength ceiling than a Dragon Ball fighter. And with very few exceptions like all-time classics such as Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat II, or games from the Smash series, fighting games are generally quite weak on this site. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | This Shy CALIFORNIA Girl uses GAMEFAQS!! Is She Hot???? |
| LusterSoldier 03/07/20 11:21:35 PM #5 | Yes, I think she's hot. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | SBAllen vs CJayC who is better admin? |
| LusterSoldier 03/07/20 9:57:25 PM #18 | Lopen posted... Well the site basically stopped growing in 2007 and had a gradual decline born of stagnation since The site actually peaked in 2008 according to the vote totals, which is after Allen had already taken over for CJayC. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1327 |
| LusterSoldier 03/06/20 6:10:36 PM #230 | PrinceOfKoopas posted... There's a sitewide "Enter your bracket for the Game of the Decade Contest today!" banner... It also shows up for people not logged into an account, so it will be seen by those visiting the site for the first time. However, the current site alert is only the normal one, not the more eye-grabbing yellow site alert which I expect will be used at some point within the final 24 hours prior to bracket lockdown. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | Game of the Decade 2 Oracle Challenge Discussion + Team Sign-Up Topic |
| LusterSoldier 03/04/20 9:45:38 PM #15 | tennisboy213 posted... hey Luster will the red grunting boneheads be back to defend our title Sure, I'll take up your offer to team up again. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | Unban Ulti from Discord for Contest Season! |
| LusterSoldier 03/04/20 9:25:21 PM #173 | I would be in support of having Ulti unbanned from Discord, or at least have his posting access limited to the contest channel if Steiner doesn't want to give him full access to Discord (minus the mod-only channels). --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | BABE BRAWL: Katie Bell (c) vs. Irina Meier - TIEBREAKER (NOMINATE!) |
| LusterSoldier 03/04/20 8:09:18 PM #15 | Irina Meier --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | The Show EP 1 - The Glorious Return of GotD! Breaking down the bracket w/ Leon |
| LusterSoldier 03/04/20 5:01:04 AM #53 | On the subject of the tiebreaker discussion, it's very difficult to speculate what our vote totals will be for the contest. Until the first day of matches begin, we can't make reliable predictions on what the vote totals will look like. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | Pokémon of the Year as voted on Google Announced |
| LusterSoldier 03/04/20 2:59:06 AM #93 | Paratroopa1 posted... Sylveon is the one appearance in the top 10 that makes me smile Yeah, I totally loved Sylveon's appearance in the overall top 10. In fact, I knew it would do well enough that I didn't have to use my Gen 6 vote on it and support a less popular Gen 6 Pokemon instead. Bane_Of_Despair posted... Slyveon is both too cutesy for me and horrifying at the same time with its blue staring eyes and flesh ribbons The flesh ribbons are the best aspect of Sylveon's design. Mewtwo59 posted... I think Sylveon really benefitted from being the only Eevee in its generation. Every other one had the vote split multiple ways. It definitely helped for sure, but Gen 6 was also the smallest generation so it could easily get a higher vote total than all of the other Eevees besides Umbreon. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | The Show EP 1 - The Glorious Return of GotD! Breaking down the bracket w/ Leon |
| LusterSoldier 03/04/20 1:55:53 AM #50 | I see Ngamer hasn't gotten over his buttannihilation of Allen refusing to allow Spider-Man into the last Character Battle in this discussion of Marvel's Spider-Man. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | The Show EP 1 - The Glorious Return of GotD! Breaking down the bracket w/ Leon |
| LusterSoldier 03/04/20 1:43:12 AM #48 | Yeah, we're definitely way too old as a userbase for Fortnite. If Fortnite had come out in 2010 instead of 2017, I think it'd more popular on this site as our average age in 2010 was around 22. This was simply a case of poor timing on the release date for Fortnite - it came out well past the time this site used to be heavily into multiplayer games. As well as being too old at the time of its release. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | The Show EP 1 - The Glorious Return of GotD! Breaking down the bracket w/ Leon |
| LusterSoldier 03/04/20 1:35:15 AM #47 | XD at Ngamer referring to Aloy as a TJF waifu girl and a Korean Starcraft champ in this discussion of Aloy losing to D.Va in the last Character Battle. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | The Show EP 1 - The Glorious Return of GotD! Breaking down the bracket w/ Leon |
| LusterSoldier 03/04/20 12:52:00 AM #44 | As of right now, I have just started listening to part 2 of this episode. I took a break of at least one hour after I got done with part 1, so I'm now ready for part 2. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | The Show EP 1 - The Glorious Return of GotD! Breaking down the bracket w/ Leon |
| LusterSoldier 03/03/20 10:41:46 PM #29 | XD at yoblazer's reaction over Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair getting into the bracket over Skyward Sword or either Mario Maker game. But yeah, it's a real shame that neither Mario Maker game could make it in. I know we do have 2 Mario games in the bracket, but they are both 3D Mario games. Super Mario Maker 2 would have the 2D Mario representation locked down if it made the bracket. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | The Show EP 1 - The Glorious Return of GotD! Breaking down the bracket w/ Leon |
| LusterSoldier 03/03/20 10:02:08 PM #25 | The 6 day break during the last contest was a bad idea because it reduced vote totals for the rest of the contest. This was made even worse by the complete lack of any bonus matches during the break. Bonus matches during the break would have maintained interest with the contest, especially among the casual voters who got really thrown off by this break. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | The Show EP 1 - The Glorious Return of GotD! Breaking down the bracket w/ Leon |
| LusterSoldier 03/03/20 9:57:13 PM #24 | For the format of the contest, I think we should have one extra round of 1 match per day. Extending 1 match per day to the quarterfinals would be a lot better, and would only increase the length of the contest by an extra 2 days. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | The Show EP 1 - The Glorious Return of GotD! Breaking down the bracket w/ Leon |
| LusterSoldier 03/03/20 9:52:21 PM #23 | Correct, the previous contest required to pick a vote for all matches on the same day before the site allowed you to lock in your votes. Technically, you could bypass that by submitting a vote directly to the poll results page, a method used by the voters in TRE's first vote contest. So that's how vote totals for the individual matches on the same day can be slightly different from each other. For this contest, having forced voting in all matches on the same day could hurt vote totals in the earlier rounds, but the impact should be lessened in the later rounds when we get down to 2 matches per day. But we don't know how the voting will be handled in that regard. This also makes tiebreaker predictions harder to call. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | The Show EP 1 - The Glorious Return of GotD! Breaking down the bracket w/ Leon |
| LusterSoldier 03/03/20 9:43:01 PM #22 | XD at Leon's Link/Easter Bunny bonus match suggestion. I don't think that will happen. The bonus match after the final will probably be the winner of the contest against Majora's Mask (previous GotD winner). --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | The Show EP 1 - The Glorious Return of GotD! Breaking down the bracket w/ Leon |
| LusterSoldier 03/03/20 9:34:00 PM #21 | As of right now, I have just started listening to part 1 of this episode. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | The Show EP 1 - The Glorious Return of GotD! Breaking down the bracket w/ Leon |
| LusterSoldier 03/03/20 9:14:50 PM #20 | Whoa, a 2 part episode. Downloading this NOW! --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | Pokémon of the Year as voted on Google Announced |
| LusterSoldier 03/03/20 3:43:52 AM #91 | @OrangeCrush980 What do you think of the Pokemon of the Year results? You can find the results in this post: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78435075/934985061 --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | What is a good number range to enter for the contest tie breaker? |
| LusterSoldier 03/02/20 2:58:08 PM #7 | xp1337 posted... Last contest matches seemed to average 17-20k votes just eyeballing it. The PotDs leading into the contest were about 10k so honestly we haven't changed much in that regard. There's 127 matches so just math'ing that out gets you a range of 2.16m - 2.54m. If you think the votals will be lower (or for some reason higher?) then adjust accordingly. And our average vote totals today are pretty similar to the PotDs leading up to the start of the 2018 contest. Clearly the issue will be how well this contest draws in votes. This upcoming contest is unlikely to produce such a large increase in vote totals compared to the regular PotDs due to the overall field being much weaker than a normal Games Contest. The early rounds might also struggle more than usual to get votes, especially if voters are forced to pick a game from all 4 matches (in the first 2 rounds) before the voting form will allow them to submit their votes. For the casual voter, this means having to potentially vote in matches where they have played neither game just so they can vote for a game they really love in a different match on the same day. My recommended guessing range will be 1900000 to 2300000. There's also going to be a 6 day break in the middle of the contest for the Second Chance Bracket. As we saw with the previous contest, the break actually hurt our vote totals after the contest resumed again as there weren't any bonus matches during the break to keep the casual voters engaged with the contest. So some casual voters weren't aware of the contest resuming again. Unless we get bonus matches during the break, you may want to factor in the potential impact it could have on vote totals later in the contest. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | Pokemon Sword/Shield Discussion Topic - Part 3 |
| LusterSoldier 03/01/20 9:06:57 AM #171 | I already had a Hatterene before, but I decided to catch another one in the hopes of getting a good nature or IVs. For the Mewtwo raids, my preferred option is Lunala (which you saw earlier). Other viable Pokemon for the Mewtwo raids include Marshadow and Grimmsnarl. You can read what other people are using over at the Pokemon Sword board. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | Pokemon Sword/Shield Discussion Topic - Part 3 |
| LusterSoldier 03/01/20 9:02:15 AM #168 | GTM posted... Is there another way to reset the raids? I only have this mewtwo one left which I'm definitely not ready for on my own. Yeah, you can do the "Invite Others" glitch while offline in the game, press the Home button to suspend the game and move your date forward by one day. Then go back into the game and cancel "Invite Others". That will change all of the den locations. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | Pokemon Sword/Shield Discussion Topic - Part 3 |
| LusterSoldier 03/01/20 8:48:36 AM #166 | Oh man, I happened to be searching for raids online when I randomly saw a stamp from GTM on the Y-Comm. My in-game name is "Luster" with the Scorbunny icon (which is me). And now GTM is hosting a Mewtwo raid (seriously dude, don't use Froslass for this raid). --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1327 |
| LusterSoldier 02/29/20 8:38:15 PM #80 | I have managed to work out the exact schedule for this contest. Round 1 - 4 matches per day Round 2 - 4 matches per day Round 3 - 2 matches per day Round 4 - 2 matches per day Round 5 (Quarterfinals) - 2 matches per day Round 6 (Semifinals) - 1 match per day Round 7 (Final) - 1 match per day There will be a 6 day break after the final day of Round 3 so people can fill out a Second Chance Bracket. The break will start on April 14th at 8:00 PM EST, with the contest resuming again on April 20th at 8:00 PM EST. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1326 |
| LusterSoldier 02/29/20 10:01:37 AM #477 | Today's poll is very interesting as the past 2 appearances of this poll proved the existence of an After Work Vote, but those earlier re-runs were both on a weekday. Today's poll is on a weekend, which changes things up as for the trends. So far, it seems like the work option is getting about one third of the percentage it received in the 2016 poll, so it seems like far less people are working today compared to a normal weekday. I am tracking this poll to see if the AWV shows up at any point during the poll. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | Pokémon of the Year as voted on Google Announced |
| LusterSoldier 02/29/20 3:54:45 AM #89 | GTM posted... How do you know this? There was an competition in Japan back in 2016 to select a Pokemon for an event distribution for the 2016 Pokemon movie. Greninja was the winner of that competition and it wasn't even a legendary or mythical that won. In the full results, Reshiram finished in 21st place while Zekrom got 33rd place. The top 100 was heavily filled with legendaries or mythicals since this was deciding the event distribution for a Pokemon movie. Pokemon that have a major presence in the anime (such as a Pokemon owned by Ash or one of his friends) usually did very well in the competition since voting audience were generally heavy followers of the anime. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1326 |
| LusterSoldier 02/29/20 1:28:53 AM #460 | I really don't know what to expect from HGSS, because while it's going to be weaker than the original GSC, there's still the whole remake factor in play too. We've also never seen a Pokemon remake in a contest before. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/4217- HGSS was more than doubled by ME2 in the GotY polls, while also being weaker than Galaxy 2 (57.94% on HGSS). --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | Pokémon of the Year as voted on Google Announced |
| LusterSoldier 02/29/20 1:12:32 AM #86 | Zigzagoon posted... All terrible. Galv and Joltik low votals is completely due to them having no presence in the anime at all. I guarantee you if Ash had had an adorable Joltik, it would have made top 3 for SURE. The anime gives such a huge boost to a lot of pokemon on these lists. This was a worldwide competition, which means the Japanese fanbase can make some of their preferences more visible here. And since the anime is way more popular in Japan than the rest of the world, any Pokemon with an big anime presence could get a boost in this competition. One of Japan's preferences being made known here was Reshiram finishing less than 2000 votes behind Zekrom. Outside of Japan, Zekrom is definitely more popular, but Reshiram is more popular in Japan. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | Leonhart Predicts the Bracket! |
| LusterSoldier 02/29/20 1:01:56 AM #10 | LeonhartFour posted... (5) Borderlands 2 Aloy losing a close match to D.Va probably doesn't mean much for the strength of Horizon because character strength usually doesn't have much correlation to the strength of the game they originated from. It's harder to create a strong character than to create a strong game. It would be interesting to research what are the strongest games on this site that do not have a single character above the fodder line. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1326 |
| LusterSoldier 02/29/20 12:44:43 AM #449 | MetalmindStats posted... Skyward Sword isn't even the strongest snub. Here's a full list of the notable ones: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14VeTf4Po-9bCVUQB4wSYMfi0SJ02Lf-TwYmpLCHeJgQ/edit?usp=sharing Super Mario Maker 2 not even getting in is very bad, as the game is a huge upgrade over the original Mario Maker. The game coming out in June of last year didn't help its cause either, since it would have had an easier time getting in if the game came out near the end of last year. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | Okay, here's the fucking bracket |
| LusterSoldier 02/29/20 12:42:04 AM #70 | OrangeCrush980 posted... Some quick thoughts: Disappointed that HGSS was the only Pokemon game. I didn't even bother nominating HGSS and put my Pokemon nominations into BW, XY, SM, and SwSh. I'm glad A Link Between Worlds got in because it missed the 2015 contest, so now it gets a chance to validate its strength as a past GotY winner. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | Surprised only one Pokemon game made it in. |
| LusterSoldier 02/29/20 12:35:21 AM #13 | Hbthebattle posted... Gen 5 was once viewed as the downfall of the franchise. So was 4 and so was 3. Pokemon fans are fickle as fuck. I know how the Pokemon fanbase works. At least since the start of Gen 3, they will criticize the most recent generation at the time. Due to the amount of criticism for the most recent generation, you have very few people willing to praise it due to the risk of getting into arguments with other people who hate the most recent generation. Once the next generation comes out, the fanbase turns their attention to criticizing the newest generation, so the previous generation that was being criticized in the past can be looked back on more positively with far less risk of having other people getting into arguments (as they're busy criticizing the newest generation). --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1326 |
| LusterSoldier 02/29/20 12:23:26 AM #447 | Looks like we're going to have another Second Chance Bracket for this contest, along with a 6 day break in the middle of the contest to enter a Second Chance Bracket. A big criticism of the last contest was the 6 day break killing our vote totals after the contest resumed, since we had no matches during the break (not even bonus matches). Some of the casual voters weren't aware the contest resumed again after the break, which explains the reduced vote totals after the break. We will also have the registered user bonus for this contest as well, where registered users have their vote counted as 2 votes instead. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | Surprised only one Pokemon game made it in. |
| LusterSoldier 02/29/20 12:12:18 AM #8 | You guys totally messed up big time when it came to Pokemon. Only one Pokemon game is very shameful. We should have at least tried to get Pokemon Black/White into the bracket. Underleveled posted... Guess this site really doesn't care about Gen V-VIII Gen 5 had the best chance of getting in from the main generation games of this decade. Gen 6 to 8 are the ones that are seen as being more of a disappointment among Pokemon fans, many of whom praise Gen 5 due to being the last generation before the disappointing 3DS era. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | Pokémon of the Year as voted on Google Announced |
| LusterSoldier 02/28/20 5:51:22 AM #80 | Vote totals for the top 30 Pokemon for each generation: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/154738784536231936/682784824100126722/unknown.png https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/154738784536231936/682784887073538088/unknown.png None of the Gen 1 starter middle evolutions got into the Top 30, but that was a highly competitive generation just to make Top 30. Charizard doesn't break 100000 votes as a result of the extreme competition near the top. Mew somehow manages to beat out Mewtwo, which I totally didn't expect. Squirtle was the winner of Board 8 Ranks the Gen I Pokemon, but it finishes 13th here. Houndoom, the winner of Board 8 Ranks the Gen II Pokemon, only gets 20th for this generation. The difference between Lugia and Ho-Oh is the largest difference between the 2 main boxart legendaries for any generation. Lugia comes fairly close to tripling Ho-Oh in raw votes. Gen 3 had the closest race for the number one spot, with less than 400 votes separating Rayquaza and Gardevoir. Latias ends up being more popular than Latios. In a rather unusual result, Aron ends up beating Aggron by more than 6000 votes. Piplup > Empoleon for Gen 4 (Bane would totally like this result). Leafeon getting more votes than Vaporeon is clearly the biggest sign of Gen 1's stacked competition at the top. Galvantula, the winner of Board 8 Ranks the Gen V Pokemon, fails to appear in the Top 30 for this generation. Joltik does make the Top 30, appearing at 27th. Pangoro, the winner of Board 8 Ranks the Gen VI Pokemon, only gets 26th for this generation. Diancie at 16th place was better than I expected from it. Goomy also failed to finish higher than Goodra, maybe a sign of the Goomy memes dying off? (plus Gen 6 being at least 6 years old now) Rowlet and Decidueye finishing 2nd and 3rd for this generation was a huge surprise because of the voting format. There should be a good deal of overlap between Rowlet and Decidueye in terms of people who like both of them, but could only vote for one of them per day. That's probably the only reason Mimikyu won this generation so easily. All of the starter final evolutions made the Top 10, even Primarina who is the least popular of the 3. Buzzwole is the only Ultra Beast to make the Top 30. Tapu Koko is the only Tapu to make the Top 30. Snom may have pulled off an impressive 4th place this generation while breaking 38000 votes, but I think this result is fueled by rallies due to Gen 8 being so recent. This meant Snom could easily capitalize on the memes while they are most relevant. It would be interesting to see what happens to Snom in the future if we ever get more Pokemon of the Year competitions. Even though there's a large difference between Zacian and Zamazenta (slightly above a doubling), it's still not as huge as the beating that Lugia put on Ho-Oh for Gen 2. Although Hatterene only finished 13th here, it has potential to grow its popularity even more due to the Gardevoir comparisons. Plus Gardevoir had over 17 years to accumulate the popularity it has today. Also, Appletun > Flapple, like it should be. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | Pokémon of the Year as voted on Google Announced |
| LusterSoldier 02/27/20 9:29:33 PM #72 | Total number of votes if we looked at just the Top 30 Pokemon for each generation: Gen 1 - 731203 Gen 2 - 666184 Gen 3 - 679819 Gen 4 - 644209 Gen 5 - 529559 Gen 6 - 636377 Gen 7 - 597601 Gen 8 - 619399 Gen 1's Top 30 still has more votes than all of the other generations, but I think Gen 1's votes are more heavily concentrated at the top compared to the later generations. There's also the possibility that more people chose to put in votes for Gen 1, and some people may have chosen to not vote for the later generations. I'm not sure if it was possible to not vote for certain generations, or if the voting form actually required one vote for each generation before it would accept the votes. Gen 5 easily has the least concentrated Top 30. Genesect with 7905 votes is higher the number 30 ranked Pokemon for Gen 2, 3, 4, 6, and 7. Also, the Japanese site for the results revealed that there were a total of 6608215 votes overall (spread out over 890 Pokemon). The Top 30 Pokemon for each generation combined for 5104351 votes (240 Pokemon), which meant there were 1503864 votes for the remaining 650 Pokemon. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | Pokémon of the Year as voted on Google Announced |
| LusterSoldier 02/27/20 9:12:42 PM #69 | Leafeon13N posted... Funny to see entire starter lines fill up top 30s. The Chespin line was the only starter line that didn't get a single Pokemon in the Top 30 for any generation. It couldn't even make an appearance in Gen 6's Top 30 despite being the smallest generation. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | Pokémon of the Year as voted on Google Announced |
| LusterSoldier 02/27/20 7:07:31 PM #60 | Most popular Pokemon by raw vote totals: 1. Greninja - 140559 2. Lucario - 102259 3. Mimikyu - 99077 4. Charizard - 93968 5. Umbreon - 67062 6. Sylveon - 66029 7. Garchomp - 61877 8. Rayquaza - 60939 9. Gardevoir - 60596 10. Gengar - 60214 11. Dragapult - 57973 12. Tyranitar - 56834 13. Bulbasaur - 56015 14. Toxtricity - 55032 15. Lugia - 53268 16. Rowlet - 52367 17. Aegislash - 51517 18. Chandelure - 50943 19. Pikachu - 48060 20. Eevee - 47762 21. Luxray - 46032 22. Decidueye - 44011 23. Zoroark - 43782 24. Lycanroc - 42792 25. Corviknight - 41711 26. Flygon - 41420 27. Hydreigon - 40054 28. Sceptile - 38724 29. Blaziken - 38307 30. Snom - 38034 Mewtwo59 posted... I think Sylveon really benefitted from being the only Eevee in its generation. Every other one had the vote split multiple ways. Plus it was in the smallest generation we've ever had. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
| Topic | Pokémon of the Year as voted on Google Announced |
| LusterSoldier 02/27/20 7:01:15 PM #57 | Bane_Of_Despair posted... Yea can we get the rest to see where our actual favorites ended up You can actually see the Top 30 Pokemon for each generation on the Pokemon of the Year website, but you first need to select a region from the drop down list below "More results:", followed by scrolling through the entire Top 5 for that region before it will show you the rest of the Top 30. Zigzagoon posted... If you could just choose any pokemon for your top 10 or whatever, these results would definitely be more Gen 1 biased. Or if you were given the option of voting for 10 Pokemon, but could spread your votes between any of the generations. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Advokaiser, Guru Champ! |
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