Posted ByDr. Howard Acticilian on December 05, 2001 at 12:12:30:
It's time again for our monthly column. The Statistician League is never resting, always eager to collect numbers and calculating new stats. Here they are:
274 messages were written in November, which puts this month third in the rank behind the all-time high October with 356 messages and July with 279. These messages had 89 different signatures, 59 of which were new to the Message Board. Altogether 485 people have posted to this board, 365 of whom have only posted one message. The top ten productive authors for November were:
1. Arbiter - 34 messages
2. custardchuk - 28 messages
3. C. Urbanus - 21 messages
4. Bill Helfer - 12 messages
4. Master Roshambollah - 12 messages
6. Stu Vessant - 10 messages
7. Simpson - 8 messages
8. Phartinoogan - 7 messages
9. Fisted Sophist - 6 messages
9. Drunken Master - 6 messages
This month is the first month since March without Master Roshambollah on top of the list. However he still reigns the top ten most producitve authors through all time (since February 6.)
1. Master Roshambollah - 307 messages
2. Arbiter - 247 messages
3. custardchuk - 208 messages
4. C. Urbanus - 137 messages
5. Simpson - 57 messages
6. Al Thorn - 47 messages
7. Fisted Sophist - 35 messages
8. Bill Helfer - 33 messages
8. Paperman - 33 messages
10. 123kid - 24 messages
In words the list looks like this:
1. Master Roshambollah - 91773 words
2. Arbiter - 36820 words
3. C. Urbanus - 35080 words
4. custardchuk - 26939 words
5. Al Thorn - 9864 words
6. Simpson - 9754 words
7. Joao V - 6331 words
8. Bill Helfer - 5053 words
9. An anonymous but distinguished mathemetician - 4961 words
10. Fisted Sophist - 3961 words
Here is the list for long-windedness:
1. Joao V - 452 words per message
2. Paper Moon - 378 words per message
3. Carolina - 314 words per message
4. Master Roshambollah - 298 words per message
5. C. Urbanus - 256 words per message
6. Scissormeister - 246 words per message
7. RPS News Clipping Service - 237 words per message
8. Dr. Howard Acticilian - 218 words per message
9. Al Thorn - 209 words per message
10. Rex Langman - 205 words per message
In honour of the deceased we also include the vocabulary statistics:
1. Master Roshambollah - 9193 different words
2. Arbiter - 5170 different words
3. C. Urbanus - 4831 different words
4. custardchuk - 4421 different words
5. Simpson - 2370 different words
6. Al Thorn - 2343 different words
7. Joao V - 1538 different words
8. Bill Helfer - 1298 different words
9. Fisted Sophist - 1154 different words
10. Paperman - 1146 different words
Weekdays:
Sunday - 85 messages
Monday - 318 messages
Tuesday - 356 messages
Wednesday - 450 messages
Thursday - 340 messages
Friday - 299 messages
Saturday - 92 messages
Scissors has been mentioned 1277 times.
Paper has been mentioned 1196 times.
Rock has been mentioned 1184 times.
Dr. Howard Acticilian
World Rock Paper Scissors Society's Statistician League