OGS Player Statistics

[thouis]

Anoek (one of the devs at online-go.com) was kind enough to dump some information from the player database and let me do some simple analysis of it. The result is here, including a histogram of ranks of active players:

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/thouis ... 14ff802f92

[ez4u]

Since they eliminated 'guest' users, I would think the user database is tainted with an ever growing number of use-once-and-throw-away random user names like qwerty and asdfg. I am not sure what the thinking was behind that change, but I think it showed an overly optimistic view of human nature.

[thouis]

True. These are reflected in the upper dark bar in the graphs under "Days since active vs days since registered". Luckily, there's a dark bar on the bottom of those plots indicating a large number of players that hang around.

[Uberdude]

In graph 12 there are a few dots in the 6/7d with several hundred games region. I presume one of these is me, but who are the others? Are there some new active strong players? When I left I thought I was the only one that rank with many games. Maybe Sadaharu has played a lot of 9x9s?

P.S. I suppose they could be real time players too now.

[thouis]

vitality, Mikasa, wtw, Sadaharu, crazystone (not the program), Ukasuhs all have >100 games, all rated above 2400 (4d).

[thouis]

It looks like guest accounts still exist (you can join chat directly from the login page, as well as browse games). They're just not as obvious.