OT: Big Board Analytics

Welcome to the offseason, TKP! Sorry I'm a little late. I know the CFB season wrapped up nicely with our very own Hokies drubbing Tulane in the Military Bowl (though I also enjoyed that offseason news blip about my hometown Liberty Flames getting ducked senseless in the Fiesta Bowl). Too bad there's been nothing CFB related to watch since then, but that's the nature of the offseason for you. In between arguments about recruiting, NIL, future of the playoffs and, checks notes...child porn laws (what the actual fuck, people?), I figured I'd do some serious number crunching on what really matters: the TKP Big Board.

In the spirit of the CFB playoff committee, I've arbitrarily cut off the analysis at number 15. The rest of you can take your complaints to the round filing cabinet in the corner. All data is approximate and gleaned at some point on January 2nd while I was trying to figure out what one is supposed to do at work so don't expect it to continue to be accurate. Unfortunately, I don't have data over time, but that would have taken waayyyyy too much time doing this manually by way of the wayback machine. So, all disclaimers aside, let's get into the numbers.

First off, the straight rankings. To save you from clicking back and forth to look at the big board while perusing this totally serious and insightful analysis, I've copied over the top 15 leg getters with their totals. I think we can all join together in saying, "Dayum, Alum07." Fully 50% more legs than 2nd place, whoever that guy is.

As Bar1990 will love to tell you, pure offensive output in terms of yards isn't nearly as useful a statistic as more advanced metrics, so let's look at the quality of comment, rather than the overall score. Below is the average number of upvotes each user gets for each comment he makes. Our fearless leader drops to 6th place. It would seem that, on a per comment basis, SevenLayersofPlayers is 40% funnier than Alum07. Don't hate, it's right there in the science.

What about frequency of participation in the site? Let's look at comments per day. There may be more active users among the TKP faithful, but none of you cracked the top 15 on the big board so better luck next year (there will be a next year, right, Joe? Right?). Alum07 makes over 7 comments a day. SLoP, despite his high hit rate at legs per comment, only posts 1.3 comments per day. Quality over quantity, amirite?

Even though this is an easy calculation based on the last two metrics, I still wanted to rank by legs per day. Alum07 and GGC, I salute you. Producing at the pace of 50 legs per day is quite the accomplishment. To the rest of you slackers, you gotta get those numbers up.

Lastly, I wanted to look at longevity. No one knows when this site came into existence. Before you post a link to some alleged "facts" let me repeat myself. No. One. Knows. However, we can see how long folks have had accounts. Does being around longer mean you have more legs? Just about as much as winning time of possession by more means you win the game by more (hint: it doesn't).

That's all I've got. There's a meeting in 2 minutes to talk about priorities for the new year so I'm throwing this up as pure brain vomit (see what I did there?) instead of doing multiple drafts. Please discuss. I'm sure the author will respond to all criticism with the same level of care and professionalism exhibited thus far in this post.