My own results are restricted to NLHE, and I think I'd rather just keep it at that (I just selfishlessly really don't want to do the work on games that I don't myself play).
The categories you mentioned (tourney ID, etc.) are all exactly the ones I was thinking. I'm not going to track the thing through every break at the moment, but just take the stack going into the first break as the time to check stack size.
AND (and this is the big news!) when I started going through this stuff last night after posting, I made a few interesting discoveries:
First, I have the data not only on me but on every player at the table I was sitting at first break (for those tourneys where I made it that far--if not, one doesn't even have to worry about the data). So, I don't just have my own stack size relative to results but also that on 8 other players for each tourney reviewed.
But, by the same token, I also don't necessarily have the stack sizes of all the top places (only those people sitting at my table) and midway. However, whatever cross-section I get will have results not only for me but for a lot of other people.
As to format, I've just been doing an Excel spreadsheet, as was your idea. I'll be happy to email it to you, if you like, so we'll have the same format going.
At the moment, I'm just going through the 18-player SNGs (NLHE). For the moment, I think it's not a bad idea to just view that as a different project than on MTTs.
Oh, and one other note on working in poker tracker: If I finish below 9th place, then I just skip over the tournament (put it in on the first one but then realized that it's just irrelevant, since I have no data on other players, and, obviously, with a stack size of 0 at midway, I never make money--surprize!). But, if I finish at 9th or better, then, under "tourney notes," you can double click on the tourney itself to filter down the results only for that one tourney. Then, under "game notes," you just go to the first game played at the break and check the various stacks of everyone at the table. After entering those players, along with their stack-sizes, in my spreadsheet, then I just have to find out how each player finished (I enter both $ won and place), so I enter that and have the data I need from that particular tourney.
Once I have all the data, what I think I'll do first (as statistical novice) is just take the average midway stack-size for all of the various money places and see if there's any clear pattern. I've already noticed that, although the biggest stack in the few tourneys I've already done has never placed first, first place does usually seem to be a stack well above average. But it's all pretty much just speculation at this point. I could also pretty easily get Excel to figure up standard deviation as well as noting the MINIMUM stack-sizes for all the money finishes.Statistics: Posted by Aisthesis — Fri Apr 29, 2005 1:34 pm
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