Lies, damned lies and F@H stats

nap_loaf · Post by **nap_loaf** » Thu Jan 22, 2004 1:27 pm

When the regular statistics (like PPW compared with MacOS X) aren't looking so good, it's time to..."invent" some new measures such as the following:

Team loyalty (or dedication): The percentage of users that are active. A low loyalty stat means a lot of people join a team, fold a bit, then get bored and don't come back.

Average user contribution: The team PPW divided by number of active users. When this is high, it means users either own fast computers or have farms or many borged machines folding in their name.

WU difficulty: The total number of points divided by the total number of work units. Admittedly of little use, even compared to the previous 2 stats.

Here are the stats for the top 30 teams:

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Team                         Loyalty UserPPW  P/WU  Rank
SilentPCReview Folding@Home     45%   1,009   33.7   26
The Knights Who Say Ni!         41%   1,993   38.2   19
Macrumors.com - Team Folding    38%     474   24.1   20
General [M]ayhem                33%     683   38.7   15
ABIT USA                        29%     902   34.5   28
2CPU.com Folding@Home           28%   2,039   27.3    5
Slo-Tech                        28%     646   38.5   29
EOC Folding@Home Team           28%     568   24.9   23
Amdmb.com Folding Team          27%     720   18.9   10
Sudhian Media                   26%     872   25.8   16
XtremeSystems Folding At Home   25%     621   23.1   12
SpeedGuide.net                  25%   1,410   23.6   17
The Tech Report                 24%     777   22.1   13
Team MacOS X                    24%     471   14.9   27
ABXZone.com                     24%   1,005   28.7   14
Team Short-Media                23%     877   17.9    9
Alliance Francophone            23%     358   23.9    4
Team AnandTech                  22%     531   20.2   24
DSL Reports Team Helix          21%     612   14.6   11
Futuremark.com                  21%     627   16.8   18
Ars Technica Team Egg Roll      21%     604   20.5    8
Dutch Power Cows                20%     320   17.6   22
Overclockers Australia          20%     785   19.3    2
[H]ardOCP                       19%     787   17.1    1
SAGoons                         19%     277   16.1   21
www.overclockers.com            18%     811   18.5    3
AOA Forums                      18%     765   16.0   25
Maximum PC Magazine             18%     348   31.6    7
Team Rage3D                     16%     607   16.5    6
Germany                         15%     279   15.7   30

SPCR has the highest loyalty ranking, 4th highest contribution per user, and 5th highest WU difficulty!

peteamer · Post by **peteamer** » Thu Jan 22, 2004 2:49 pm

Nicely done Sir

That puts a very interesting slant on it all.

Guess we're pretty good guys after all...... as if anyone doubted.

Presumably the mac boys won't be able to comment until jobsie tells them what to think... after he's had an 'independent' statistics expert... rearrange things

Now... if you could just add a row for percentage of loyalty to platform

Well done again.

Pete

haysdb · Post by **haysdb** » Thu Jan 22, 2004 4:27 pm

Cool beans nap.

Interesting stuff.

David

Mustang Mac · Post by **Mustang Mac** » Thu Jan 22, 2004 5:58 pm

Ask and ye shall receive!

Brand Repurchase Rate*

Apple Macintosh 53%

Gateway 45%

Dell 40%

Hewlett Packard 33%

Compaq 29%

IBM Brand 9%

*Percent of brand owners that bought the same brand when they purchased a new home PC in the first three quarters of 2000. Source: Harris Interactive Consumer TechPollSM

unregistered · Post by **unregistered** » Thu Jan 22, 2004 6:33 pm

You forgot Home built.......

That would be 0%.

At the very bottom of your statistics.

Strange that people can maintain and have a state of the art computers and never buy a new one????????????

I understand your loyalty but,You don't realize that you are at the wrong end of the chart you just posted?

haysdb · Post by **haysdb** » Thu Jan 22, 2004 6:42 pm

unregistered wrote:Strange that people can maintain and have a state of the art computers and never buy a new one????????????

I'm still using the same PC I bought four years ago, but since then I have bought a new case, power supply, cpu, cpu heatsink, memory, optical drive, hard drive, video card, case fans, and new cables.

David

sbabb · Post by **sbabb** » Thu Jan 22, 2004 6:56 pm

Yeah, but it occupies the same intrinsic space, David.

unregistered · Post by **unregistered** » Thu Jan 22, 2004 7:10 pm

I bought one proprietary, computer in '94, but I didn't know any better. I will never buy another.