Idea: Community Data Gathering Project

[Zhohar]

The idea is simple: after each round, record the following information in a thread:

- The Date and Time the map was played
- The map name, size, and tickets each side started with.
- The amount of tickets left on each side at round end
- The time left in that round

For what purpose is this?
To get solid, truthful, transparent data we can all reference when talking about our rotations.
Why is this a community effort? The more of us contribute data, the clearer picture we'll all have.
Format?
One thread. Each post is a round (or several rounds) with the above information. After some time, I can compile the information to a spreadsheet, and present things like:
- Average infantry round length vs average armor round length (do armor rounds last longer, or is there less action in the same period of time?)
- Average tickets lost per minute played on a map with regard to bleed setup of that map
- How often one team wins by more than 100 tickets (possibly to infer how prevalent teamstacking is)

My interpretation (or anyone else's for that matter) would be elsewhere: the focus is on getting organized, impartial data in one centralized place.

Do ya'll think this is a good idea?
I think we can gather a lot of very useful information this way, and settle a lot of arguments.

[Nepharyte0]

Your best bet is to get a few people working on the project when they are on for the next week or so. A few people needed scattered over different times of the day. Then the data compiled at the end of the set time. A thread would become very long, very confusing and there would be no correlated data to actually work with.

[LordMeatwad]

I will try to help Zho! Can we add number of players who drop at begining of round (eventhough I dont know how we would know who really left.

[ionpig-A]

I wonder is this is available in the sever logs with a bit of "grepping"? Admins?

[machowner]

might be a good idea to get the total player count for the round. I think this impacts the round time significantly.

[Lorax74]

I wonder is this is available in the sever logs with a bit of "grepping"? Admins?

Here is what yesterday's log entries look like from a 9pm ET to 10pm ET (minus admin activity:

[9/1/2009 9:09:57 PM]	SYSTEM	Game status changed to: 2
[9/1/2009 9:09:57 PM]	SYSTEM	End of Round Detected. Final Ticket Count: Pac: 1 EU: 50
[9/1/2009 9:10:57 PM]	SYSTEM	Game status changed to: 3
[9/1/2009 9:10:57 PM]	SYSTEM	Game status changed to: 3
[9/1/2009 9:10:57 PM]	SYSTEM	Game status changed to: 1
[9/1/2009 9:11:04 PM]	SYSTEM	Swapping all player teams.
[9/1/2009 9:11:06 PM]	SYSTEM	Game status changed to: 3
[9/1/2009 9:11:06 PM]	SYSTEM	Game status changed to: 1
[9/1/2009 9:26:56 PM]	SYSTEM	Game status changed to: 2
[9/1/2009 9:26:56 PM]	SYSTEM	End of Round Detected. Final Ticket Count: Pac: 2 EU: 216
[9/1/2009 9:27:49 PM]	SYSTEM	Game status changed to: 3
[9/1/2009 9:27:49 PM]	SYSTEM	Game status changed to: 3
[9/1/2009 9:27:49 PM]	SYSTEM	Game status changed to: 1
[9/1/2009 9:27:50 PM]	SYSTEM	Swapping all player teams.
[9/1/2009 9:27:55 PM]	SYSTEM	Game status changed to: 3
[9/1/2009 9:27:55 PM]	SYSTEM	Game status changed to: 1
[9/1/2009 9:38:28 PM]	SYSTEM	User: Eroak logged in.
[9/1/2009 9:47:07 PM]	SYSTEM	Game status changed to: 2
[9/1/2009 9:47:07 PM]	SYSTEM	End of Round Detected. Final Ticket Count: Pac: 29 EU: 1
[9/1/2009 9:48:00 PM]	SYSTEM	Game status changed to: 3
[9/1/2009 9:48:00 PM]	SYSTEM	Game status changed to: 3
[9/1/2009 9:48:00 PM]	SYSTEM	Game status changed to: 1
[9/1/2009 9:48:05 PM]	SYSTEM	Swapping all player teams.
[9/1/2009 9:48:06 PM]	SYSTEM	Game status changed to: 3
[9/1/2009 9:48:06 PM]	SYSTEM	Game status changed to: 1
[9/1/2009 10:01:21 PM]	SYSTEM	Game status changed to: 2
[9/1/2009 10:01:21 PM]	SYSTEM	End of Round Detected. Final Ticket Count: Pac: 1 EU: 30
[9/1/2009 10:02:14 PM]	SYSTEM	Game status changed to: 3
[9/1/2009 10:02:14 PM]	SYSTEM	Game status changed to: 3
[9/1/2009 10:02:14 PM]	SYSTEM	Game status changed to: 1
[9/1/2009 10:02:19 PM]	SYSTEM	Swapping all player teams.
[9/1/2009 10:02:20 PM]	SYSTEM	Game status changed to: 3
[9/1/2009 10:02:20 PM]	SYSTEM	Game status changed to: 1
[9/1/2009 10:20:08 PM]	SYSTEM	Game status changed to: 2
[9/1/2009 10:20:08 PM]	SYSTEM	End of Round Detected. Final Ticket Count: PAC: 1 EU: 112
[9/1/2009 10:21:08 PM]	SYSTEM	Game status changed to: 3
[9/1/2009 10:21:08 PM]	SYSTEM	Game status changed to: 3
[9/1/2009 10:21:08 PM]	SYSTEM	Game status changed to: 1
[9/1/2009 10:21:12 PM]	SYSTEM	Swapping all player teams.
[9/1/2009 10:21:14 PM]	SYSTEM	Game status changed to: 3
[9/1/2009 10:21:14 PM]	SYSTEM	Game status changed to: 1
[9/1/2009 10:48:25 PM]	SYSTEM	Game status changed to: 2
[9/1/2009 10:48:25 PM]	SYSTEM	End of Round Detected. Final Ticket Count: Pac: 122 EU: 1
[9/1/2009 10:49:23 PM]	SYSTEM	Game status changed to: 3
[9/1/2009 10:49:23 PM]	SYSTEM	Game status changed to: 3
[9/1/2009 10:49:23 PM]	SYSTEM	Game status changed to: 1
[9/1/2009 10:49:28 PM]	SYSTEM	Swapping all player teams.
[9/1/2009 10:49:29 PM]	SYSTEM	Game status changed to: 3
[9/1/2009 10:49:29 PM]	SYSTEM	Game status changed to: 1

You've got ticket counts and times, but that's about it.

[Zoraster]

teamstacking! one team won three rounds in a row!

[oniell121]

Since it doesn't tell us the maps, could one not check the BR records and match up times?

[Grim.the.Grim]

I'll help. This sounds like a good way of getting valuable statistical data (I hate statistics). Just remember that time of day will play heavily in the data!

[black_Mirror]

teamstacking! one team won three rounds in a row!

Great contribution to that topic!

[di1lweed1212]

yeah i'll try to get data too, but since the admins have half of it, can we collect the info they don't have? (map, start player number, ect.)