Season 3 brackets

mischiefmaker

Over in the platform metrics thread, I was thinking it would be useful to know how many players are actually playing MPQ -- are the forums representative of the playerbase as a whole, and lots of people are quitting, or are we a divergent vocal minority and the game is doing fine?

One way we can get this data is to see how many different season brackets there are -- each bracket represents 5000 people who have played at least once in the last two weeks. Now, I'd suspect there aren't a whole lot of regular forumgoers who didn't start a bracket in the first week, so this method will definitely underestimate, but I'm curious to see what we come up with, and anyway it's been a while since I've done a community data project, so here goes!

Link to the doc with instructions

noobprime

Bumpity bump!
For visibility, let's get a handle on numbers!

HairyDave

Looks like mine's already covered and I never noticed Bugpop in there before now

Unknown

8 brackets of 5k is only 40k there has to be more than that...

Unknown

I suspect forumgoers are disproportionally in early brackets.

Unknown

Added mine, I was on vacation and came back between a third of and half the event already passed.

noobprime

Season 3 ending, looks like 11 brackets so far. So the estimates of ~60K daily isn't that far off.

Unknown

Just look at that 8th and 9th bracket. Talk about great timing and coordination.
And oh look i am in the 4th bracket.

Unknown

just added the 12th Bracket. pretty soft bracket managed to land on 22nd with just 14k points

Unknown

Vanapak wrote:

just added the 12th Bracket. pretty soft bracket managed to land on 22nd with just 14k points

You call that soft not sure what mine is. 7th place with 13.5k! Thanks D3.

over_clocked

Vanapak wrote:

just added the 12th Bracket. pretty soft bracket managed to land on 22nd with just 14k points

Same here, would NOT call my bracket soft. 4 various X-Men members in top 10. #1 had 18k, it's not 20 or 21k points, but it's still higher than anyone's score in Season I which had the same duration. (But no Sentry, hehe.)

HairyDave

Hey Mischiefmaker you going to resurrect this for Season Four?

I'd be interested to see just how many forum heavies I've landed in the middle of now that bracket nudging seems to be a little less gentle.

Unknown

Cryptobrancus wrote:

8 brackets of 5k is only 40k there has to be more than that...

One of my fellow commanders in my Alliance was ranked #1 in his bracket with only 6K points in Season 3. He's not on the forums but I'm pretty sure I didn't see his bracket listed in the sheet

mischiefmaker

HairyDave wrote:

Hey Mischiefmaker you going to resurrect this for Season Four?

I'd be interested to see just how many forum heavies I've landed in the middle of now that bracket nudging seems to be a little less gentle.

Wasn't planning on it, since the goal was to see if we can get a guess as to how many people are actively playing. No reason that we can't re-use the sheet for season four, though. Added a sheet for it.

HairyDave

Thanks man.

It'll satisfy my curiosity if no one elses.

jojeda654

HairyDave wrote:

Thanks man.

It'll satisfy my curiosity if no one elses.

Hey! Were S4 bracket buddies! Yay! Good luck!

Ducky

jojeda654 wrote:

HairyDave wrote:

Thanks man.

It'll satisfy my curiosity if no one elses.

Hey! Were S4 bracket buddies! Yay! Good luck!

I'm in said bracket as well!

Unknown

added the endlessvoid 7000+ point bracket, for 6 so far this season.