This evening, I found myself looking through the
PA history page (I've since forgotten why exactly I was doing this), and wondering: what players have performed best?
So being the nerd that I am, I went to work, and ended up with a 6.9 MB text file, containing all the planet rankings I could find: top 50 for r1, top 100 for r2-13, and the full rankings of all rounds since 14, with the exception of 17 and 26, because those are incorrect on the history page. For those I should use the top 100 from PAwiki (but haven't yet).
I refuse to believe I'm the only one who gets a stiffy from cold hard data, so here's some interesting lists:
Quadruple round winners since r1:
elviz (14, 17, 25, 30)
Triple round winners since r1:
agar3s (41, 44, 54)
Double round winners since r1:
BENNEH (35, 48)
eksero (32, 40)
HaSu (39, 56)
Greenhills (19, 21)
Jintao (49, 57)
Ronin (46, 47)
Sliekas (6, 9)
Pre-PAX
Wishmaster (34, 51)
People with 5 or more top 10 finishes since r1:
eksero (14)
Golan (11)
shaz (11)
BENNEH (8)
agar3s (7)
HaSu (7)
arc (6)
elviz (6)
Henrik (6)
Mikee (6)
Sleepless (6)
Caj (5)
Colt (5)
Cronix (5)
dedin (5)
guzlic (5)
Jintao (5)
Phantasm (5)
People with 20 or more top 100 finishes since r1:
BENNEH (28)
Sleepless (27)
Dealer (26)
eksero (26)
shaz (25)
Grog (23)
LukeyLove (23)
Reese (23)
agar3s (22)
Bazza (22)
IsilX (20)
rasputin (20)
Zwanstic (20)
(Missing the bottom 50 of the r1 top 100)
If we give 10 points to a #1 finish, 3 for a top10 finish and 1 for a top 100 finish, and calculate average score over all rounds played, this is what we get:
elviz has 4 #1s, 6 top 10s, 13 top 100s out of 25 rounds played: 2.12 points / round.
eksero has 2 #1s, 14 top 10s, 26 top 100s out of 33 rounds played: 2.06 points / round.
agar3s has 3 #1s, 8 top 10s, 22 top 100s out of 29 rounds played: 2.03 points / round.
HaSu has 2 #1s, 7 top 10s, 16 top 100s out of 23 rounds played: 1.91 points / round.
shaz has 1 #1s, 11 top 10s, 20 top 100s out of 33 rounds played: 1.82 points / round.
Golan has 0 #1s, 11 top 10s, 18 top 100s out of 24 rounds played: 1.67 points / round.
Benneh has 2 #1s, 8 top 10s, 28 top 100s out of 40 rounds played: 1.45 points / round.
Number of people who've played X or more rounds since r14 (missing 17 and 26):
10: 1145
15: 634
20: 391
25: 232
30: 146
35: 81
40: 39
People who've finished all 44 rounds since 14:
Amnion (18 top 100)
Auto
BaDD
Bazza (24 top 100)
Car
Catwoman
Devonian
eagleon
Fiery
Jaric
Kublai
Monroe
mystery
Walldo
(Manually checked round 17 and 26 for these players.)
(As far as I know, all of them are playing r58 as well.)
(galla foolishly missed round 17.)
(Unlike for the above data, I made no attempt to deal with people who've used multiple nicks through their career.)
No one who has won a pre-PAX round has ever won a post-PAX round. Kileman came closest, with a second place finish in round 21.
Pre-PAX, Valvalis holds the most top 10 finishes, at 3. 6 other people managed 2 top 10 finishes during that time.
elviz and Linkie(!) are the only post-PAX round winners who clocked a top 10 finish pre-PAX. Of the pre-PAX round winners, none clocked a top 10 finish post-PAX
There's much more information to mine in here, so if you're interested in some data, feel free to post.