It's finally here! It's time for March's leaderboard statistics.
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Activity Analysis:
There were fewer active members and more inactive. Only 23% of the leaderboard were active. What a pathetic percentage. This means that March was a lot slower than February. Dead members still represent more than half the leaderboard. This was the same as February. I was hoping for a decrease. There were two new members on the leaderboard. Welcome to the leaderboard [url= http://alienwarearena.com/member/1211056/]icklepeeker[/url] and [url=http://alienwarearena.com/member/1334474/ ]Chunaki[/url]! Overall, the leaderboard is more inactive... again.

Major flaw: The only flaw is my benchmarks. Check here for an explanation.

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Monthly ARP Analysis:
Four fewer people capping for the month led to a 9% decrease in total ARP generated compared to February. This confirms that the leaderboard is becoming more inactive.

Major flaw: Everyone's Monthly ARP was recorded 15 minutes before the cap reset. There is a small possibility that a few members gained more ARP. I observed no new forum posts or video posts in that small window but members could have utilized untraceable ARP-rewarding activities.

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Level Analysis:
We now have three new Level 7s. Congrats to Mikarmakn, TheDarkCthun, and DreyraJar. You three have reached the highest level on this site! But, Level 7s became more inactive. Shame on you guys. Even with one more Level 6, the Level 6s were also more inactive. Shame on you guys, too. Let's not talk about Level 5s. They're almost all dead. Overall, about 90% of Level 6s and Level 5s were inactive.

Major flaw: The breakdown of activity for each level was based on my activity benchmarks.

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USA/Canada Sweepstakes Winners:
Warhammer (PC):
1. pariahx667 (First-time winner! Congrats! Not on the leaderboard.)
Total Entries: 15 | Total ARP Entered: 1470

Alienware TactX Keyboard:
1. vicada (First-time winner! Congrats! Not on the leaderboard.)
2. 69lovefactory (First-time winner! Congrats! Not on the leaderboard.)
Total Entries: 265 | Total ARP Entered: 4103

Alienware TactX Mouse:
1. DieselSS (Second-time winner! Previous winner of Nov '11. On the leaderboard.)
2. Decietfultrama (Second-time winner! Previous winner of Sept '11. On the leaderboard.)
Total Entries: 193 | Total ARP Entered: 4206

Dell $50 Gift Card:
1. Tranceparent (First-time winner! Congrats! Not on the leaderboard.)
2. Victorious25 (First-time winner! Congrats! Not on the leaderboard.)
Total Entries: 107 | Total ARP Entered: 2528

Note: "Total Entries" and "Total ARP Entered" is what I collected 1 minute before the end of the bidding period.

Europe Sweepstakes Winners:
Alienware TactX Keyboard:
1. paccomaster66 (First-time winner! Congrats! Not on the leaderboard.)
2. Gurvak (First-time winner! Congrats! Not on the leaderboard.)
Total Entries: 14 | Total ARP Entered: 521

Alienware TactX Mouse:
1. Radical3d (First-time winner! Congrats! Not on the leaderboard.)
2. NC-JE4DE (First-time winner! Congrats! Not on the leaderboard.)
Total Entries: 12 | Total ARP Entered: 1219

Alienware TactX Headset:
1. SquiddyBiscuit (First-time winner! Congrats! Not on the leaderboard.)
2. HikaruXXI (First-time winner! Congrats! Not on the leaderboard.)
Total Entries: 12 | Total ARP Entered: 905

Alan Wake (PC):
1. Ackbou (First-time winner! Congrats! Not on the leaderboard.)
2. GHOSTonDUTY (First-time winner! Congrats! Not on the leaderboard.)
Total Entries: 13 | Total ARP Entered: 48

Note: "Total Entries" and "Total ARP Entered" is what krishnooof collected 3 hours before the end of the bidding period.

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Sweepstakes Analysis:
Only two winners are on the leaderboard, which is one less from the last Sweepstakes. All the winners on the Europe Sweepstakes were not on the leaderboard. Surprisingly enough, there were about 250 more entries in the USA/Canada one but it only increased total ARP entered by about 400. This means that these new members bid an average of 1.6 ARP, which isn't much.

Major flaw: "Total Entries" includes split bids so total entries does not fully represent the total amount of users in that Sweepstakes.

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Winners Analysis:
Leaderboard now has two more second-time winners. Sweepstakes winners on the leaderboard only represent 34% of Sweepstakes winners. That is a 3% increase from last month. The percentage is now back to what it was in January.

Major flaw: These numbers fluctuate monthly because many previous winners are dead. More active members will eventually bump these winners off the leaderboard, thus, lowering or possibly increasing the actual total wins.

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Going Forward:

1. The number of Level 5s is constantly decreasing. It should take about five months for the leaderboard to be at least Level 6.
2. By simply capping for three months, you will be on the leaderboard. This shows that most people don't stay here long and overall, the community is inactive. This will hold true until the entire leaderboard is Level 6.
3. If you are on the leaderboard, chances are you won't win the Sweepstakes. If you won before, expect to never win again.

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Theoretical Levels Analysis:
We got four new members who hit Level 10. Congrats to vietgamer09, DieselSS, Sky-Dexter, and Noobtubed06!

Major flaw: These levels aren't real.

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Interesting Tidbit:
DieselSS has the most forum posts. Over 6000!

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Feedback welcome. If you are curious about other calculations, let me know.

Last edited: 4/26/12 at 6:20PM EST

Interesting statistics, as always:) I understand you finally got your laptop back?:)

Thanks again for this month Wiki.

It's always interesting to have this kind of breakdown and we wouldn't have it without you. Keep up the great work man :)

krishnooof said: Interesting statistics, as always:) I understand you finally got your laptop back?:)

I did get my laptop back. I called IT about it and they said that it's been fixed for a while. The only thing they're waiting on is to fix some wiring. My quickplay buttons are not working right now. I don't care about that. I just wanted it to power up. IT returned my laptop and said when the wires do arrive, I can give it back to them to fix it immediately.

SithHunter said: Thanks again for this month Wiki.

It's always interesting to have this kind of breakdown and we wouldn't have it without you. Keep up the great work man :)

Technically, the stats are for last month. This month's stats will be posted next month. I have formatted it to be condensed and thus, less of an eye-sore. Everything should be looking very nice and easy to read.

definewikipedia said:

I did get my laptop back. I called IT about it and they said that it's been fixed for a while. The only thing they're waiting on is to fix some wiring. My quickplay buttons are not working right now. I don't care about that. I just wanted it to power up. IT returned my laptop and said when the wires do arrive, I can give it back to them to fix it immediately.

SithHunter said: Thanks again for this month Wiki.

It's always interesting to have this kind of breakdown and we wouldn't have it without you. Keep up the great work man :)

Technically, the stats are for last month. This month's stats will be posted next month. I have formatted it to be condensed and thus, less of an eye-sore. Everything should be looking very nice and easy to read.

First off, that's awesome that you got your machine back. If I'm not mistaken, DOTA 2 is calling your name.

Secondly, that was poorly worded on my part. I used "this" as in "Thanks for tallying up this particular month" rather than "this current month".

I need to get active again, shame i lost most motivation and time.

SithHunter said: First off, that's awesome that you got your machine back. If I'm not mistaken, DOTA 2 is calling your name.

Secondly, that was poorly worded on my part. I used "this" as in "Thanks for tallying up this particular month" rather than "this current month".

It sure is! Need to start playing it again.

It's all good. I was just clarifying it in case you thought it was for this month.

Thernandez8080 said: I need to get active again, shame i lost most motivation and time.

SHAME ON YOU.

Great job Wiki, I'm happy to see you got your information back. Now it's time for you to learn the importance of off-site backups and the usefulness of cloud storage (ie. Dropbox, Mediafire, etc.).

Awesome info, Wiki! Better late than never! So does this mean that your laptop is fixed?

Your laptops aliveee! Thanks for the info as always, too bad inactivity is getting worse.. I reckon some people just come by and win a prize and then go inactive. =/

Chunaki said: Your laptops aliveee! Thanks for the info as always, too bad inactivity is getting worse.. I reckon some people just come by and win a prize and then go inactive. =/

Yeah, thats a shame. Most winner, at least in Europe, are inactive, only come here for a prize and once they win, they don't post anymore. Still, i think that we have an awesome community here. I enjoy sweeps, its fun even tho im pretty sure i will not win anything anytime soon. Still, sometimes i wish that some of our active members would win.

krishnooof said:

Chunaki said: Your laptops aliveee! Thanks for the info as always, too bad inactivity is getting worse.. I reckon some people just come by and win a prize and then go inactive. =/

Yeah, thats a shame. Most winner, at least in Europe, are inactive, only come here for a prize and once they win, they don't post anymore. Still, i think that we have an awesome community here. I enjoy sweeps, its fun even tho im pretty sure i will not win anything anytime soon. Still, sometimes i wish that some of our active members would win.

Yeah since they've been sticking & staying keeping the community alive.

krishnooof said: Still, sometimes i wish that some of our active members would win.

I would like to see more active members win also. It pains me that we have active members that cannot even participate in the sweepstakes. Those that are active and can't enter obviously aren't here for the prizes...

DieselSS said: Those that are active and can't enter obviously aren't here for the prizes...

That's what you call a TRUE member, & we need more of them ofc.

I've got a looong ways to go before I ever get on the leaderboards.