[Meta] Player activity
Hi there,
I’m an old player just checking in to see how the nomic’s been doing lately. Out of personal interest I made this chart containing the number of active players per dynasty, and I thought perhaps some of you might be interested: http://i.imgur.com/JDp6P7G.png
The data comes from the individual dynasty pages.
The mean is 15.67.
Notes:
First, I make no real claims as to accuracy. I probably messed up the data entry at multiple points, though I did attempt to verify every few dynasties that I was in the right place.
The bigger problem is that the data was inconsistently recorded: even where player activity was noted, it was not always noted in the same manner. Some dynasties had separate beginning/end stats, some had generic “active player” stats, etc. I was as liberal as possible—I included everyone who was recorded as being active at some point during a dynasty.
Further, the data weren’t recorded in every dynasty. Some of these (particularly the ones before approximately dynasty 68) were reconstructed after the fact. From around 68-80, player activity was noted at the beginning and end of each dynasty. You’ll note this coincides with the peak period of activity, which is probably not coincidental. After that point, player activity was noted towards the end. Out of the 129 dynasties, only 85 have values here.
In dynasties 90 and 91, I included the “notably active” players in the counts. For several dynasties around 98, I ignored the “among others” disclaimers and pretended the records were accurate.
The raw data is here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hgv0oxabc0ebdj8/activeplayers.xlsx?dl=0
If you think this will be useful in the future, back it up somewhere (*cough Kevan*). That’s my personal dropbox folder and it’s likely going to be reorganised in the next few weeks, so the link will probably break. Alternatively, PM me. I’ll probably keep this file forever unless I accidentally lose it.
Do not use this in for any reputable social science research purposes. Seriously. The data are freaking terrible.
redtara: they/them
Also, I may unidle in the near future. Or maybe not. We’ll see.