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For those of you who don't already know what this is about: I'm gathering various data from all the streams that are presented on teamliquid.net (viewers, game, events, etc.) and use that data to produce the pretty tables you see below. The tables only contain SC2 players (that is, people streaming games of Starcraft 2 being played by themselves) and not casters, teams or other streams. The tables also only contain Starcraft 2 related activities, a SC2 streamer streaming Dota2 or other games is not being taken into account (which explains Destiny's comparatively low streaming hours).
A minor difference to last month is that a streamer has to stream 5 hours (not 2.5) to be included in the ranking. Due to the feedback from last month's thread, I've created two tables this time: One sorting the streamers by the average viewers, as last time, and one sorting the streamers by average viewers * hours streamed. I'm still not sure which version is more useful, to be honest. Sorting by average viewers punishes streamers that stream during unfavorable times or big events, as well as those that stream a lot. Sorting by average viewers * hours streamed obviously favors those who stream a lot, even if they are not as popular. Since I'm a lazy bum, I've created a poll at the bottom of this thread to let you guys decide which way is better.
Now, without further ado, here's the two tables:
(The HTML versions contain some more information due to space reasons.)
![[image loading]](https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8028950/TL/top50June.png)
![[image loading]](https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8028950/TL/top50JuneX.png)
Some random observations:
- It seems that the downwards trend in viewers from last time has mostly been averted. Hooray! Only Idra lost a whole lot of viewers this time. But he also streamed a whole lot more last month (going up from 16 hours to over 50), so that might be a reasonable explanation for that.
- To my surprise, Hui is not #1 in the viewers*hours category. I expected him to be in the number one spot in that category for all eternity solely because he streams way more than anyone else. Guess I was wrong!
- Notable absentees this time around: HuK, MC, HerO, SaSe, SeleCT, Nerchio, Feast and Hasu. They either didn't stream at all last month or not enough to be included in the rankings.
- For some reason, Hui has two streams on teamliquid: "Hui ." and "wayne379". They both link to the same stream. Sometimes one is used, sometimes the other, sometimes both at the same time. This seriously confuddled my script and required some adjustments.
- Congratulations to
ailuj for being the first female streamer on the list! - Congrats also to Root Gaming for having six(!) players in the viewers*hours ranking. Geez, you guys do stream a lot!
That's all I can think of for now. Hope you guys enjoyed!
Oh, yeah, and here's the poll:
Poll: Which kind of ranking is better?
Sort by average viewers * hours streamed (161)
56%
Sort by average viewers (116)
41%
Other (specify in comments) (8)
3%
285 total votes
Sort by average viewers (116)
Other (specify in comments) (8)
285 total votes
Your vote: Which kind of ranking is better?
(Vote): Sort by average viewers
(Vote): Sort by average viewers * hours streamed
(Vote): Other (specify in comments)
