miscellaneous

I took a couple snapshots of where activity spiked in the energy charts before the month rolled over, mainly out of curiosity to see how strong of an influence the scaling system has had on scoring habits. (Hope it's still on the list Ed)

Energy of the top 10 clans equated to 33,312,100 at the end of the month. The energy among the top 10 scorers themselves equated to 14,966,106. This means the top 10 scorers made up 44.9% of the total energy among the top 10 clans.

At the end of the 22nd, the top 10 clan energy total was 14,563,88 or 43.7% of the month end amount. This is much lower compared to what percentage of weight it would be if one were to score consistently the entire month. We can reference Ed's chart for those numbers, which would be 61.84% at this point. Even less than this is the top 10 scorers, which had a total of 5,801,699 at this point. This would be 39.8% of the current top 10 clan amount, or 38.8% of the month end top 10 scorer amount.

Then at the end of the 25th the top 10 clan energy total was 20,539,168, or 61.7% of the month end amount. The aforementioned chart shows that the weight is 73.73% now. The differential is a lot closer here, but still fairly large. Nearly 1/3 of the total energy up to this point was done in those past 3 days. Back to the top 10 scorers, they had 9,046,900 energy among them at this juncture. This was 60.4% of the total they finished the month with, or 44% of the top 10 clan total at this point in the month.

Main takeaway in my opinion is that 56.3% of the top 10 clan energy was done in the last 9 days, or 61.2% of the top 10 scorers energy. Significantly more than what the weight chart would imply if everybody scored at a regular pace throughout the month.

Thanks for the data. It makes intuitive sense that "equal scoring every day of the month" is too naive of an assumption - increased activity towards the end of the month is the natural outcome of a close race, so that does indicate the MC buff is a bit stronger than originally anticipated.

(For those that missed it, I just went into more detail on my latest thoughts on the MC buff here.)

Well put together Pat. I think one out look people see on the buff is the fact with like 10-15 days left in the month you are gaining 2x the energy making dumping faster to do. You basically have proper dumpers that dump to a much higher bot much easier now than before

I think another factor is the battle for individual top 10s too. Even if the clan race is set in stone, most people will still put up a fight for those.