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SASO Participant Data
I'm someone who loves statistics, so I've taken it upon myself to organize some data on how well represented different fandoms are within the SASO. I've broken this down both in terms of number of teams per fandom, and number of participants associated with each fandom. Below is the data as I have organized it.
The very first thing I did was tally up how many of the competing teams belong to each fandom represented in the shipping olympics. Out of forty teams (not counting the grandstand) the results were as such:
If you look at these numbers, what this means is that when main rounds happen, more than a third of the fanworks created will be from Haikyuu, while one-quarter of the fanworks will be from Yowapeda. While Free and Kuroko no Basuke are also well represented, two-thirds of the fanwork in main rounds will be about Haikyuu or Free.
If you're someone who likes visuals, let me put that in a pie chart for you.
And if you're someone who likes lists and want to see which ships within each fandom are being represented, I drew up some nice lists organizing eligible ship teams by their parent fandom.
From the team roster, I was able to determine how many participants are on each of these teams, and therefore how many participants are representing some ship (or general sports team) from each of these fandoms. Those numbers broke down like so:
As the purpose here is to track participation by fandom, these numbers exclude the 39 participants placed in the grandstand, as they do not have an obvious fandom affiliation.
Again, if you like visuals, have a pie chart:
However, for the sake of accuracy, I can also provide the numbers with the 39 grandstand participants included.
What does all of this mean? In the end, whatever you want to take away from it. These numbers function roughly as a popularity sampling of the fandoms nominated to the SASO (and it's therefore worth considering which fandoms were nominated without finding representation by a team), but it is my personal opinion that they do not entirely accurately reflect the popularity of each nominated fandom within the participant base of the SASO.
But hey, hopefully this was an interesting read for someone besides myself! More statistics potentially forthcoming (if I remain ambitious) as the SASO progresses.
The very first thing I did was tally up how many of the competing teams belong to each fandom represented in the shipping olympics. Out of forty teams (not counting the grandstand) the results were as such:
If you look at these numbers, what this means is that when main rounds happen, more than a third of the fanworks created will be from Haikyuu, while one-quarter of the fanworks will be from Yowapeda. While Free and Kuroko no Basuke are also well represented, two-thirds of the fanwork in main rounds will be about Haikyuu or Free.
If you're someone who likes visuals, let me put that in a pie chart for you.
And if you're someone who likes lists and want to see which ships within each fandom are being represented, I drew up some nice lists organizing eligible ship teams by their parent fandom.
From the team roster, I was able to determine how many participants are on each of these teams, and therefore how many participants are representing some ship (or general sports team) from each of these fandoms. Those numbers broke down like so:
As the purpose here is to track participation by fandom, these numbers exclude the 39 participants placed in the grandstand, as they do not have an obvious fandom affiliation.
Again, if you like visuals, have a pie chart:
However, for the sake of accuracy, I can also provide the numbers with the 39 grandstand participants included.
What does all of this mean? In the end, whatever you want to take away from it. These numbers function roughly as a popularity sampling of the fandoms nominated to the SASO (and it's therefore worth considering which fandoms were nominated without finding representation by a team), but it is my personal opinion that they do not entirely accurately reflect the popularity of each nominated fandom within the participant base of the SASO.
But hey, hopefully this was an interesting read for someone besides myself! More statistics potentially forthcoming (if I remain ambitious) as the SASO progresses.
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i'm a stats major, a lover of sports anime, and also... the codermod for SASO
this is really cool! it was a lot of fun to watch the teams roll in as they did. did you know that iwaoi filled up within an hour of us opening the event? ping pong actually had an eligible sports team but then dropped to two people (cries)
there were a lot of interesting happenstances that contributed to the stuff you talk about. if you want to talk about more interesting ways to look at the data i am literally always down
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I kept a daily eye on the live roster so I saw Ping Pong become eligible (AND I WAS SO EXCITED!!) and then drop back down (still a little bit disappointed about that...) but jeez, I did not know how fast iwaoi filled up. You probably saw a lot of cool stuff that I didn't and HECK YEAH would I like to talk stats and data.
(tbh I'm really rusty with stats for all that I love them, so if you have suggestions about things to keep track of or ways of organizing things I would really love to hear it.)
I also think it's really interesting to actually consider the numbers IN the context they're coming from because I am basically A Sociology Person and that's what's MOST fascinating to me. I love happenstance. I'm really curious what things you saw happening that I might have missed. O:
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that's what statisticians are trained to do at least -- never decontextualize the numbers, because that's when you get incorrect results. all the sampling methods i was taught were all situation-dependent
i... dont remember much else but if i scroll through the team list im sure i can find stuff