IN9 episodes tournament, round 1 stats
I have created a spreadsheet based on the wonderful polls by @insideno9bracket and now I am here to give you some solid facts (it's about 1000 words long, I sincerely apologise).
First off, I looked at the general data.
The mean amount of votes per poll was a nice round 90 (to the nearest whole number), with a SD of 11.6 (quite a lot).
The mode was 83, and the median 89.5 (meaning there are a few outliers at the top).
The mean amount of notes per poll was 17 (to the nearest whole number), with 10 of were likes and 7 were reblogs (the number of comments proved to be almost negligible, with a mean of 0.25 comments per poll).
Firstly, I think this shows the general trend on Tumblr of moving away from reblogs and towards likes (a trend that other Tumblr users have made way more interesting posts about, so I won't go into detail about this here).
Due to the nature of these polls, I really enjoy reading people's reblog-tags, so I urge you to reblog more next round so I have a good time lol.
Secondly, it shows that only 19% of the people who voted also interacted with the post in another way (not taking into consideration those who liked AND reblogged). Again, I feel like we can do better than this next round. I want to know why you choose the episode you choose! Give me those unhinged and insanely biased tags, reblog with propaganda of why people should vote for a specific episode! It’s what these polls are all about!
Next up, let's take a look at the most popular polls and episodes.
The top 3 most voted for polls were:
Nana's Party vs Bernie Clifton's Dressing Room (125 votes)
Zanzibar vs Paraskevidekatriaphobia (108 votes)
Sardines vs How Do You Plead (105 votes)
The top 3 most voted for episodes were:
Bernie Clifton's Dressing Room (115 votes)
The Stake Out & Cold Comfort (81 votes)
Now, the main take-away from this is how insanely popular BCDR is. It got more votes by itself, than all other polls did in total. Another take-away is the popularity of Sardines and How Do You Plead (we’ll seem them again in the “closest calls” part of this post). People really fought for both those episodes. My last take-away for now, is that we are all insanely predictable and I love that for us lol. Of course Plodding On and The Stake Out are in the top 3, of course they are.
If we look at the most voted for polls/episodes, we of course also need to look at the least voted for (or as I’d like to call it; the bit of this post that would get Reece annoyed).
The top 3 least voted for polls were:
Private View vs Boo To A Goose (55 votes)
And The Winner Is vs Thinking Out Loud (75 votes)
Hurry Up And Wait vs A Quiet Night In (80 votes)
The top 3 least voted for episodes were:
Hurry Up and Wait & The Referee’s A W***er (8 votes)
A Random Act Of Kindness, Nana’s Party & Love Is A Stranger (10 votes)
A couple of points on this, Private View vs Boo To a Goose was the first poll to happen, which I believe is the main reason this poll received so few votes. Secondly, some of the episodes in this top 3 were just unlucky with which episode they were up against and aren’t bad episodes per se (to be fair, are there any actual bad episodes? I think not. Just popular and less popular ones).
For example, The Referee’s a W***er was up against Cold Comfort (which got 91% of the votes), and Nana’s Party was up against BCDR (which got 92% of the votes).
This brings me nicely to the point of win margins.
Top 3 biggest win margins:
Bernie Clifton’s Dressing Room (92%) vs Nana’s Party (8%)
Cold Comfort (91%) vs The Referee’s A W***er (9%)
A Quiet Night In (90%) vs Hurry Up And Wait (10%)
Top 3 smallest win margins
Thinking Out Loud (52%) vs And The Winner Is (48%)
The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge (58.4%) vs The Party’s Over (41.6%)
12 Days Of Christine (59%) vs To Have And To Hold (41%)
As well as: Sardines (59%) vs How Do You Plead (41%)
The biggest win margins are all quite straightforward; iconic episodes vs average episodes. Not much to say about that.
The smallest win margins are either between two average episodes, or two iconic episodes (/documentaries).
I wonder if perhaps there could be a “golden ticket” poll at some point, to get one of these just-didn’t-win episodes back into the competition (@insideno9bracket)?
Lastly, I looked at the most and least interacted with polls.
Top 3 most interacted with polls:
Death Be Not Proud vs The Stake Out (28 notes)
Nana’s Party vs Bernie Clifton’s Dressing Room (25 notes)
Tempting Fate vs Wise Owl & The Last Weekend vs Mulberry Close (24 notes)
Makes a lot of sense, people are very passionate about these episodes.
Top 3 least interacted with polls:
And The Winner is vs Thinking Out Loud (9 notes)
Mother’s Ruin vs Seance Time (10 notes)
Hurry Up and Wait vs A Quiet Night In (11 notes)
It’s either because people weren’t too fussed about these 3 polls (seems unlikely, but alright), or everyone was busy when these polls came out lol. If anyone has a better explanation, I’d love to hear it.
A lot of this was more or less as I expected, though I thought The Trolley Problem would feature more heavily at the top (it ranks 10th in amount of votes).
I cannot wait for round 2 and seeing if the current trends continue, or if new pairings will change it all up!
Please let me know if there are any other stats you’d like to see! I’ve just gone with everything I could think of, but I’m always open to doing more pointless stats.
Thank you everyone for voting and thank you @Insideno9brackets for doing this. I’m having a great time.