Wait! Don’t do your percentages yet!

Before you do percentages, you need to know how many people you were even competing with. Now it’s easy to just think: Oh, well there were 1489 jam entries and 901 compo entries, so it should be easy, right?

No! Bad boy!

Not everyone competed on all ratings, and more importantly, not everyone got enough votes to get a rating everywhere. You can only compete against the entries with enough ratings. You simply cannot make the assumption that all the entries with insufficient ratings “were worse” than the ones with. Statistics simply don’t work that way.

So here’s the short of it. This is how many entries got a rating in each of the categories. If you want to determine your position, use these numbers and not the global ones. Yes, your scores will be worse, but at least they will be accurate.

JAM ENTRIES

Humor: 643 entries received a score

Theme: 897 entries received a score

Fun: 885 entries received a score

Audio: 552 entries received a score

Mood: 826 entries received a score

Graphics: 848 entries received a score

Overall: 917 entries received a score

Innovation: 848 entries received a score

COMPO ENTRIES

Humor: 424 entries received a score

Theme: 624 entries received a score

Fun: 621 entries received a score

Audio: 446 entries received a score

Mood: 536 entries received a score

Graphics: 598 entries received a score

Overall: 640 entries received a score

Innovation: 596 entries received a score

How did I get these numbers?

By scraping the whole site. You can find a table with every single entry and data about it here:

Ludum Dare 37 Data (Big, big table)

If you would like to do analysis on this data, I also provide it in JSON form, available here: Ludum Dare 37 data (JSON)

Data from previous jams is also available: LD36, LD35, LD34, LD33, LD32, LD31, LD30, etc. Just edit the number in the URL for previous jams, or change it from .html to .json to get the json version.

If you just so happen to run http://ldstats.info/ you’re welcome to use this data and make the site way, way more useful! 😀

😀 LOVE YOU! <3

~Lime