[Analysis Issue] Large Prize Criterion

[Dr. Sylvan]

I'm considering incorporating any tournament with a Black Lotus for a prize, even if it's not fifty people, into my monthly metagame articles. (Such as the New Jersey one this weekend with forty players.)

For: More data is good, and anything with what amounts to a $500 prize is going to be very competitive; that's twice the payouts I've heard of for a PTQ. Also, these attendance numbers will usually not be much below fifty, because supporting a Lotus (and other T4 prizes) between less than forty people would be ridiculous.

Against: Forty people is pretty low and the accuracy of the metagame analysis would be compromised in a nontrivial way by ignoring the fifty-player minimum.

Comments or concerns?

[jollysaintj]

From my experience in statistics threw field biology and such I was taught that comprimises have to be made to get enough data. In that case you can either keep a tight requirement on the number of people at the tourneys or let it vary all over the place and count any and every tournament. With keeping it tight your giving up possible precious data. When you let it vary you sometimes let in outliers. Here I would let it vary all over the place and include every tournament. Even though their small tournaments there still a tournament and part of the meta. but thats just my opinion and its up to you. good luck i cant wait to see it when your done.   -jay

[jpmeyer]

pls tks