Challenge XIII: Midway Statistical Check In

 

Many of you have been asking about the Statistical Updates on the Challenge.  I constantly get bombarded with requests "we need stats" or "please, Please gimmie some stats" - Of course, when I say most of you, I really mean none of you, but dammit, you should have asked.  I'm sure it's because you are shy.

Don't worry, your thirst for stats is about to get a lit sip of knowledge.  Your welcome.

Through the Feb 10th halfway point we have the following production statistics, which will be compared to Challenge 12 for fun

Challenge Halfway Point

	XIII	XII
Total Points	46,450	48,064
Posts	464	490
Active Challengers	81	97
Points per Post	100	98
Points per Challenger	573	496
Posts per Challenger	5.7	5.0
Scale Summary	XIII	XII
28mm	51.1%	54.3%
15mm	9.9%	10.0%
6mm	4.6%	1.4%
20mm	0.5%	2.9%
10mm	4.1%	4.9%
40mm	4.3%	4.4%
54mm	0.6%	1.9%
terrain	5.5%	4.1%
Other	1.4%	0.3%
Bonus Points	18.0%	15.7%
Total	100.0%	100.0%

Despite having 16 less participants, Challenge XII is performing nearly the same as XII points wise but this years participants are a bit more productive in terms of points per challenger.

In terms of scale, 28mm remains the dominant scale of choice but 6mm seems to be staging a rather nice comeback.  The other interesting feature is that the studio challenge seems to be even more popular given the healthy increase in bonus points (which are mostly studio related).

In terms of a points prediction for the year, lets see.....  Ok in past challenges we have posted roughly 56% of total challenge points by the midway point.  We all kind of enter the February doldrums were production does slow a bit and then bound into "Manic March" for the crazy finish.  I've done extensive data mining on this year crew - you know the standard invasive things like credit reports, social media stalking, interviewing friends, relatives and former cellmates.  All the normal, non creepy, stuff us financial types revel in.  The findings from my research, while disturbing in many ways, provides me the confidence to say this crew will not slack off this month and we will post, when the dust is settled 91,000 points.  Lets see what the final half of XIII holds for us all.

DO NOT LET ME DOWN

Now back to your painting benches you beautiful pigmentation warriors!