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Throughout most of the Power Rank's history, we've had one of two PR writers; FakeSteve, or DJEtterStyle. Lately, we've had some different writers; In fact, we've changed PR writers each month ever since August (because apparently FakeSteve moved across the world. Slacker needs to learn how to multitask). This gulf in consistency leaves us with the critical question: Who is the best power rank writer? Which of our four power rank writers (two of which are one-time contractors) flames the players the hardest? Who makes the most controversial power ranks that cause fanboys to break down into tears?
FakeSteve: Mirror Mirror on the Wall, who's the best Power Rank writer of them all?
Of course, rather than actually reading the comments section to the power rank or looking at player records, I decide to go do something only tangentially related (if at all) to actual accuracy or skill in writing power ranks. I looked at the number of comments each power rank received, and the total number of pageviews. Still ignoring the actual content of the power ranks and the quality of the comments therein, I bravely forged ahead for a good two minutes. Entering data into a spreadsheet like a good corporate drone, slaving away for the benefit of the queen CEO, so that the queen CEO can lay eggs and increase the size of her brood. Since I've brought up a relation between corporations and ant colonies, I should go ahead and warn you all about the soldier ants lawyers. If you let them bite you, they never let go, even after death. This is why lawyers have excellent dental plans.
But I digress. After entering data into Excel for a minute or two, I decided to calculate something with my data. Unfortunately, I overlooked one critical fact: I was using Excel. Shit. After staring blankly at the Excel spreadsheet for a minute, I decided I should know what I wanted to calculate first. I decided on the ratio of posts to views. I wasn't sure what this statistic might actually mean, but of course that didn't stop me (Excel did). Eventually I rationalized it after the fact by saying that it could represent how controversial the power rank was: the higher the ratio of posting to viewing, the more people got butthurt over it. In other words, it could mean that more people posted without reading the thread. With my flimsy justification firmly in hand (and something else that was firm in my hand), I went to check if there was anything new in the TL blog section. No new blogs from crazie-penguin. Damn. Back to Excel again.
Since you probably don't want to hear about my troubles with Excel, I'll leave out the details of how I failed to get it to work. Anyway, here's a graph that you can ignore.
You can ignore this text too. Nobody reads italicized text anyway
If you look at the graph, you can see that there are two power ranks where more than one out of fifty viewers posted a comment. Using my contrived reasoning, this means that they were the two most controversial power ranks. The first one is this power rank, where FakeSteve put Manifesto7 at number 10 instead of Stork. I can only assume it was controversial because Mani's fans wanted him to be higher. The most controversial power rank overall was this one. In fact, it's probably even more 'controversial' by now, because I copied down the data like an hour ago, and more people have posted in it since then.
So after making that graph, I carefully thought about it (checked the blog section again for anything interesting), and decided that it was a pretty worthless statistic, at least the way it was presented. But I put in this post anyway, just because I wanted to waste your time anyway. Anyway, I decided that a slightly less shitty statistic would be the average controversiness per power rank author. This required more work with excel.
Putting on Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" for mood music, I set out to conquer excel. For maximum effect, sing this out loud while reading the sentence after this one: Dah da da daaaah dah da da daaaaaaah dah da da DAAAAAAAAH DAH DA DA DAAAAAAAAH. Using Excel, I averaged the data and made a graph. Behold:
Feel free to continue singing.
This graph clearly shows that contrary to popular opinion, FakeSteve is actually not in the least bit divisive when writing power ranks. Even DeadVessel can write a more entertaining* power rank, and he can't even win a showmatch against gosugamers. At least we stripped him of his blue newswriter status. As soon as we finish altering certain records, it will appear that he never existed. And as we can see from the graph, none other than OneOther (I probably saw this pun somewhere else, because I'm not creative enough to come up with it myself) is the best at fostering controversy. And DJEtter obviously sucks. He may have invented the power rank in the first place and brought it to what is today, but nobody cares.
![[image loading]](http://www.gamereplays.org/community/uploads/post-14673-1190869069.jpg) I contacted Savior and asked him what he thought about FakeSteve's power ranks. At least I think that's what I said. If you get picky about details, like 'words' and 'grammar', I don't technically speak korean. But this is probably related to power ranks.
Okay, so maybe I'm not quite sure if Savior is thumbing down DeadVessel's showmatch performance or FakeSteve's power ranks or if he's sentencing a gladiator to death. Wait, nevermind. Only Boxer can do that last one, because he's the emperor. Gladiators and DeadVessel's miserable failure aside, there are other interesting statistics that you can fake from the power ranks.
At the suggestion of IntoTheWow, (who probably makes shitty power ranks), I checked how the number of protoss on the power rank compared to how many comments. Because as we know, every comment on the power rank is a protoss tear.
As we can see, this graph is very linear. In fact, it's so linear that there are three vertical lines. This means that it's not just normally linear, but it's triple linear. Yes, this means that protoss players cry so much that they have redefined mathematics as we know it. However, in the interest of preserving my knowledge of mathematics, I am forced to change the subject. So with no apparent reason, I'll throw another graph with numbers and stuff. This one will be about the average number of views of each person's power rank. Popularity contest, go!
If you're still singing at this point, good job. You can stop now.
As we can see, FakeSteve and OneOther have the most popular power ranks. Again, DJEtter is behind the others, and is left hoping that the cooler group of starcraft newswriters won't beat him up and steal his lunch money. An interesting coincidence is that the two most popular power rank writers also share the distinction of failing to get the first post in their own power rank for the Close but no cigar (CBNC) post. However, after his first CBNC failure, Fakesteve improved his APM and mechanics enough to get the first post. OneOther is sitting at a low of 0% of first posts succeeded. I bet he plays protoss.
With the numbers backing me up, I can conclusively say (i.e. not prove) that OneOther is better at power ranks than anyone else. Ever. But we are left wondering if there could be another PR writer. A PR writer faster, stronger than any that came before. Again, I delved deep into the depths of Excel, making mathematical magic materialize. Remember that cheesy statistic, the number of posts divided by the number of views? If you had read carefully, you'll know that I manufactured a flimsy reason why it could possibly mean how controversial a post was. After hours of careful calculations, I came up with the most controversial power rank poster possible, and graphed it in comparison to the current PR posters:
The projected maximum possible ratio of posts to page views is the bar in red.
I was searching for a power rank writer faster and stronger than any that came before. There is only one possibility: iNcontroL posing as IdrA. And stop singing Ride of the Valkyries now, it's creeping me out.
Special thanks to IntoTheWow for editing, help with Excel and pictures
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Haha, all of that for "Incontrol posing as Idra". Do it! It will be hilarious.
EDIT I'm trying to see if you can turn the "protoss tears" graph into a 3D chart. As it is I can't even come up with a bullshit interpretation of the data! Could you send me the values you used and I will see if I can do anything until I finally have to admit that I am an excel noob.
EDIT2: here it is!
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Well done for making complete nonsense an entertaining read.
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A very well written I don't get it post. *clap clap*
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I don't really know what this is about, but I like the humor.
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On November 09 2008 20:43 Sudyn wrote:
1a2a3a is not funny.
1a2a3a
ROFL
jk
lol this is a good read. even though not serious =x
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"As we can see, this graph is very linear. In fact, it's so linear that there are three vertical lines." 
nice work
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On November 09 2008 19:17 Klive5ive wrote:
Well done for making complete nonsense an entertaining read.
and
+ Show Spoiler +Pls dont give us any SC strategy advices, thanks
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lol, nice reaad very entertaining
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Russian Federation1208 Posts
 Bisu is the 1st protoss ever who took the 1st spot in Power Rank
Bisu is the 1st protoss ever who took the 1st spot in KeSPA Rank
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bah, i thought this was the new powerrank T_T
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Yea inc as idra would be epic
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Holy shit that was awesome. 
You should also take into account how late the power rank is that specific month.
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On November 09 2008 22:50 Bifur wrote:Bisu is the 1st protoss ever who took the 1st spot in Power Rank Bisu is the 1st protoss ever who took the 1st spot in KeSPA Rank
I think Anytime was actually the fist to take the top spot in the Power Rank.
This was a fabulously entertaining read, but you should have looked at the amount of time each power rank was up for - possibly divided your initial statistic by number of days. The recent power ranks have been up far past the start of each month, but I suppose they probably average monthly. Still, many of the views are probably from people checking if the new one is here yet.
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this agrees with my views:
in terms of least biased/most analytical PR:
1)DJetter (I miss his power ranks, they were so good)
2FakeSteve (good, but late as hell)
3)DV (not really biased at all, but I have to put you somewhere)
4)oneother (hi)
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Can I rename this to "Power Rank Rank"?
edit: I'll take your offline status as an emphatic "Yes!"
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how can you compare one month of OneOther to FakeSteve when Steve's been writing the power rank for months. Honestly, the sample size of fakesteve and DJEtterstyle is much larger than that of OneOther or dead vessel. It is for that reason, that I believe these statitics are meaningless.
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On November 10 2008 02:28 Athos wrote:
how can you compare one month of OneOther to FakeSteve when Steve's been writing the power rank for months. Honestly, the sample size of fakesteve and DJEtterstyle is much larger than that of OneOther or dead vessel. It is for that reason, that I believe these statitics are meaningless.
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On November 10 2008 02:28 Athos wrote:
how can you compare one month of OneOther to FakeSteve when Steve's been writing the power rank for months. Honestly, the sample size of fakesteve and DJEtterstyle is much larger than that of OneOther or dead vessel. It is for that reason, that I believe these statitics are meaningless.
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On November 10 2008 02:10 TarsTarkas wrote:Show nested quote +On November 09 2008 22:50 Bifur wrote:Bisu is the 1st protoss ever who took the 1st spot in Power Rank Bisu is the 1st protoss ever who took the 1st spot in KeSPA Rank I think Anytime was actually the fist to take the top spot in the Power Rank. This was a fabulously entertaining read, but you should have looked at the amount of time each power rank was up for - possibly divided your initial statistic by number of days. The recent power ranks have been up far past the start of each month, but I suppose they probably average monthly. Still, many of the views are probably from people checking if the new one is here yet.
And Kespa for that matter but i could be wrong 
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On November 10 2008 02:45 DamageControL wrote:Show nested quote +On November 10 2008 02:28 Athos wrote:
how can you compare one month of OneOther to FakeSteve when Steve's been writing the power rank for months. Honestly, the sample size of fakesteve and DJEtterstyle is much larger than that of OneOther or dead vessel. It is for that reason, that I believe these statitics are meaningless. .............................................................................................
followup post:
are you guys such OneOther fanboys that you're overlooking sample size? idiots
I think he's joking =P
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United States17042 Posts
Pretty funny way to analyze the power rank writers.
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United States10774 Posts
On November 10 2008 02:21 fusionsdf wrote:
this agrees with my views:
in terms of least biased/most analytical PR:
1)DJetter (I miss his power ranks, they were so good)
2FakeSteve (good, but late as hell)
3)DV (not really biased at all, but I have to put you somewhere)
4)oneother (hi)
in terms of worst quality/most frequently posted without reading the discussion
1)fusionsdf
congrats!
edit: good job OP, funny read
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On November 09 2008 19:17 Klive5ive wrote:
Well done for making complete nonsense an entertaining read.
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United States3824 Posts
Wow. you put a lot of work into this one. Nice job with the graphs
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Calgary25980 Posts
LOLOLOLOLOL this is fucking fantastic.
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United States47024 Posts
Final Edit please.
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On November 10 2008 02:21 fusionsdf wrote:
this agrees with my views:
in terms of least biased/most analytical PR:
1)DJetter (I miss his power ranks, they were so good)
2FakeSteve (good, but late as hell)
3)DV (not really biased at all, but I have to put you somewhere)
4)oneother (hi)
hahaha
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I was skimming it and initially thought it was serious.
Then I read "As we can see, this graph is very linear. In fact, it's so linear that there are three vertical lines. This means that it's not just normally linear, but it's triple linear."
Best line. :D
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On November 10 2008 02:10 TarsTarkas wrote:Show nested quote +On November 09 2008 22:50 Bifur wrote:Bisu is the 1st protoss ever who took the 1st spot in Power Rank Bisu is the 1st protoss ever who took the 1st spot in KeSPA Rank I think Anytime was actually the fist to take the top spot in the Power Rank.
Anytime has never been first on the power rank. He also never got the number one rank in KESPA, Bisu was the first protoss to get there.
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The more post means that from month to month,more people are joining TLnet and the Pr is being posted later and later. Me and Geo.Rion joined Tl on the end of the last PR,and since that,we wrote like 100 posts combined in the PR,and that can be said about many people. And even in the early FakeSteve era,Power Ranks were usually posted on 6-7th of the current month,which means two days later. Those two days give us ample time to bitch about stuff,I think like 150 posts were made in the last two days. I think FS wrote the most entertaining and controversial Power Ranks,he was the only Power Rank writer that could make me laugh with his PR's,but yeah,we got used to his style and it is no longer as funny as it was,and he is late as hell lately,so I think we need a change. I am satisfyed with all the Pr writers,excpet DeadVessel,because he wrote short posts to everyone and was a little boring,but that was only one PR and cannot judge him well. I like OneOther too,he's little biased about Stork but fair and objective(except placing Hwasin above Bisu,which he admitted was a mistake). If he writes the Pr, I have no problem with that,but most of al,I would like Hot_Bid to write the rankings,his MSl writings are hillarious.
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On November 09 2008 19:17 Klive5ive wrote:
Well done for making complete nonsense an entertaining read.
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On November 10 2008 05:19 CDRdude wrote:Show nested quote +On November 10 2008 02:10 TarsTarkas wrote:On November 09 2008 22:50 Bifur wrote:Bisu is the 1st protoss ever who took the 1st spot in Power Rank Bisu is the 1st protoss ever who took the 1st spot in KeSPA Rank I think Anytime was actually the fist to take the top spot in the Power Rank. Anytime has never been first on the power rank. He also never got the number one rank in KESPA, Bisu was the first protoss to get there.
oops, you are right. The power rank that I remembered Anytime being on top of was actually during Savior's invincibility era. Therefore he is second.
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On November 10 2008 05:40 Darth Peter wrote:
Me and Geo.Rion joined Tl on the end of the last PR,and since that,we wrote like 100 posts combined in the PR,and that can be said about many people.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised by how many posts you've made in the PR. After all, you just managed a triple linear post.
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Pretty good, lol at the people taking it seriously.
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Yeah,I wanted to quote,and I don't know how I quoted the entire stuff I wrote and made it a post,and I wanted to edit it,and write only a quote on the second,but somehow it became a third post. I only fucked up so bad with my first post on TL.
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I seriously ROFL'd at the protoss tear graph, epic.
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"An interesting coincidence is that the two most popular power rank writers also share the distinction of failing to get the first post in their own power rank for the Close but no cigar (CBNC) post."
Oooh! That was me!
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Wow, that was awesome... and completely lacking any tangible information. Well done, the presentation was a most entertaining read.
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On November 10 2008 07:44 arglactable wrote:
Wow, that was awesome... and completely lacking any tangible information. Well done, the presentation was a most entertaining read.
This OP should be taken as inspiration for essays and lab reports!
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Valhalla18444 Posts
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this thread is now about cj entus shirts
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On November 10 2008 17:02 jodogohoo wrote:
this thread is now about cj entus shirts
No it is about the philosophical debate on the existence and nature of "absolute truth" and how it relates to dog-walking.
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i stopped reading PR after DJ
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That's a very long and convincing essay about nothing, I see you are a man after my own heart. Nicely done.
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On November 09 2008 21:33 MrHoon wrote:WE NEED CJ JACKETS NAO
Yeah, hehehe.
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I vote for Hot_Bid to do a power rank or two before these results are final!
(i love fakesteves tho)
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I will rue the day when PR discussion becomes > than 1 post per view. That would be terrible.
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United States17042 Posts
On November 18 2008 08:35 thunk wrote:
I will rue the day when PR discussion becomes > than 1 post per view. That would be terrible.
I don't think that's even possible is it?
Are views linked to every time the thread is seen by an ip, by user, or some combination of both?
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Hungary11291 Posts
I loved the article, but about the methodology: You should factor in the average visitors / month into the replies / PR, that should make DJEtter look a lot better.
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On November 18 2008 09:07 Aesop wrote:
I loved the article, but about the methodology: You should factor in the average visitors / month into the replies / PR, that should make DJEtter look a lot better.
It's not possible for me to look any better. Holy shit am I sexy.
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