I’m back! Here are the stats for the wonderful tournament @insideno9bracket is holding!
The lay-out of this second round of stats will be very similar to the first, but with some extra comparisons to the first round (very excited about this). So, without further ado, let’s have a look.
The mean amount of votes per poll was 106 (to the nearest whole number), with a SD of 9.4. This is a significant increase from the average of 90 votes per poll in the first round. The SD has gone down a bit from 11.6 in the first round (makes sense, as more people are now consistently voting, rather than discovering this tournament for the first time).
The mode was 101, and the median 104, again showing there was a more consistent amount of votes per round this round!
The mean amount of notes per poll (at the time of writing) was 21 (to the nearest whole number). 12 of these were likes and 9 were reblogs (0.6 were comments).
The main take away from this data is that more people are (consistently) voting now!
In my post about the first round I spoke about the general trend on Tumblr of moving away from reblogs and towards likes, and although this trend is persisting, I’m glad to say the gap is being closed! For every reblog in the first round, there were 1.5 likes. For every reblog in the second round, there were 1.3 likes! Keep reblogging, my friends!
There was also a slight increase in the amount of people who interacted with the posts in other ways than just voting (20% in round 2, compared to 19% in round 1!) (again, this does not take into account people who liked AND reblogged, or reblogged multiple times).
Next up, let’s take a look at the most popular polls and episodes.
Top 3 most voted for polls:
Diddle Diddle Dumpling vs The Last weekend AND The Trolley Problem vs 12 Days of Christine (the first time) (120 votes)
The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge vs The Bill (114 votes)
Mr King vs Dead Line (112 votes)
No insane outliers this time. Interestingly, not a single one of these episodes was in the top 3 polls in round 1! They’re all very popular episodes, though, so people really fought for them.
Top 3 most voted for episodes:
Bernie Clifton’s Dressing Room (94 votes)
Wise Owl AND Boo to a Goose (87 votes)
THERE SHE IS. BCDR once more tops the charts! The other 3 episodes are new to the list! BCDR didn’t win with as much of a landslide as last round, but it still scored higher than the second place in round one. Making the current top 3 most voted episodes across both rounds:
Bernie Clifton’s Dressing Room (125 votes)
Bernie Clifton’s Dressing Room (94 votes)
Wise Owl AND Boo to a Goose (87 votes)
Interestingly, BCDR was part of the poll that received the least amount of notes this round. People clearly did not feel the need to justify their answer.
Time to move on to the slightly more depressing part of every tournament; the bottom.
The top 3 least voted for polls:
Once Removed vs Cold Comfort (88 votes)
The Trolley Problem vs 12 Days of Christine (89 votes)
Riddle of the Sphinx vs A Quiet Night In (98 votes)
It made me laugh that the Trolley Problem vs 12 Days is in both the top 3 and the bottom 3. I guess after the tie the first time around, some people simply couldn’t face the stress of fighting for their favourite again (alas). I’m not sure why Once Removed vs Cold Comfort received so few votes? Perhaps one of you clever buggers might have an idea.
The top 3 least voted for episodes:
Curse of the Ninth (17 votes)
Thinking Out Loud (21 votes)
Oh Nine Lives Kat, you were up against BCDR, you never stood a chance. May you rest in peace now. Also, the other two were up against the two episodes that received the second most amount of votes (Wise Owl and Boo to a Goose), so it makes sense they did not score higher.
This, once more, brings me nicely to the point of win margins.
Top 3 biggest win margins:
Bernie Clifton’s Dressing Room (93.1%) va Nine Lives Kat (6.9%)
Wise Owl (83.7%) vs Curse of the Ninth (16.3%)
Boo to a Goose (80.6%) vs Thinking Out Loud (19.4%)
Well, that lines up neatly with the most voted for/least voted for episodes, doesn’t it!
Top 3 smallest win margins:
The Trolley Problem (50%) vs 12 Days of Christine (50%)
Mother’s Ruin (51.5%) vs La Couchette (48.5%) AND The Devil of Christmas (51.5%) vs Tom and Gerri (48.5%)
Diddle Diddle Dumpling (52.5%) vs The Last Weekend (47.5%)
Our first tie-break! Very exciting. The Trolley Problem vs 12 Days (the first time) was also the poll with the most notes, which makes sense as people REALLY fought for their favourite. It is clear that all these episodes are incredible (look at me not slagging off 12 days! Ah fuck, now I have), but alas, only one can be crowned the winner in the end!
I have already mentioned two of these above, but let’s have a look at the most and least interacted with polls.
Top 3 most interacted with polls:
The Trolley Problem vs 12 Days of Christine (first time) (40 notes)
The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge vs The Bill (28 notes)
The Stakeout vs Simon Says (26 notes)
Top 3 least interacted with polls:
Bernie Clifton’s Dressing Room vs Nine Lives Kat (12 notes)
The Trolley Problem vs 12 Days of Christine (second time) (13 notes)
Thinking out Loud vs Boo to a Goose (14 notes)
At the risk of repeating myself, the top 3 are clearly episodes where people were very passionate about which episode should win, whereas the bottom 3 are ones where people just voted without trying to convince others.
Though it is very funny to see the difference between TP vs 12 Days first time and second time. People truly gave up (a little sad).
Lastly, scores per season!
- Season 4 (237 votes, 2 winning episodes) - 59 votes per episode
^ Season 3 (229 votes, 3 winning episodes) - 57 votes per episode
^ Season 8 (109 votes, 1 winning episodes) - 55 votes per episode
- Season 1 (161 votes, 1 winning episodes) - 54 votes per episode
- Season 2 (264 votes, 2 winning episodes) - 53 votes per episode
v Season 9 (242 votes, 3 winning episodes) - 48 votes per episode
v Season 7 (144 votes, 1 winning episodes) - 48 votes per episode
v Season 5 (129 votes, 1 winning episodes) - 43 votes per episode
- Season 6 (30 votes, 0 winning episodes) - 30 votes per episode
Some clarification on these results;
^ means this season has gone up in ranking compared to last round
- means the episode is in the same position as last round
v means the episode has gone down in ranking compared to last round
The votes per episode is calculated by taking the total amount of votes for that season, divided by the amount of episodes still in the running for that season (hence why the total votes for season 6 is 30, and the votes per episode is 30. All 30 of these votes were for Simon Says).
The amount of winning episodes is the amount of episodes that won in round 2. This means that for round 3, four different seasons will only have 1 episode still in the running.
For season 2 and 9 I have calculated the total and average using both the original TP vs 12 Days AND the rematch (hence why the total votes for those two seasons are higher than for the others, but the votes per episode aren’t).
Season 9 and season 7 seemingly have the same amount of votes per episode, but this is merely because I rounded it to a whole number. The reason season 9 ranks above season 7 is because (to 1d.p.) the votes per episodes are: season 9 - 48.4, and season 7 - 48.0.
Congrats! You’ve made it to the end of my ramblings! I hope you enjoyed, feel free to add thoughts/questions/comments to this post, and do not worry, I have already started my spreadsheet for round 3!
