Posts Per Day (Updated 06-13-2001)

  • The first PPD was conducted by Butterknife on July 19, 2000 and included data from the beginning of Gonegold to that date.
  • The second PPD was conducted by Butterknife on September 21, 2000 and included only data from July 19 to September 21.
  • The third PPD was conducted by Tim on April 23, 2001 and included data from the beginning of Gonegold to that date.  You can find it here.
  • Trend information has been removed but will return for PPD 5.
  • PPD 4 includes statistics from April 23, 2001 until June 13, 2001 (exactly 50 days).  Total PPD calculates the overall PPD count (from the time people joined the forums) while PPD4 counts only the past 50 days since PPD 3.

PPD 4 Statistics:

Most PPD (PPD 4):

  1. Tim - 11.54
  2. Napoleon - 11.34
  3. Simon - 11.30
  4. bcr19374 - 9.68 
  5. Tebunker - 9.18

Most Total Posts:

  1. Joelmathis - 2757
  2. Simon - 2715
  3. Napoleon - 2308
  4. Rob Merritt - 2237
  5. Andy - 1801

Most Days:

  1. Andy - 736
  2. Joelmathis - 727
  3. joeyjazz - 571
  4. Tim - 566
  5. Rob Merrit - 524

Closest To One Post Per Day:

  1. khomotso - 1.08
  2. Malificent - 1.24
  3. Rittchard - .7
  4. Drwest - .1.3
  5. Zaxxon - .68

Lowest Number of Posts Per Day:

  1. Rich_Laporte - .2
  2. Trey - .46
  3. Zaxxon - .68
  4. Rittchard - 0.7
  5. Khomotso - 1.08

  • The average number of posts per day since PPD 3 is 4.37.
  • The average number of posts overall is 2.85.
  • The average number of days is 384.7.
  • The average number of posts since PPD 3 is 218.29.
  • The average number of posts overall is 972.5 

  • The person closest to the average PPD since PPD 3 is Hetz .
  • The person closest to the overall PPD average is Howitzer .
  • The people closest to the average number of overall days are Magicboy and Qantaga .
  • The person closest to the average number of posts since PPD 3 is Hetz .
  •  The person closest to the overall average number of posts is joeyjazz .

  • The person whose total PPD is closest to the value of pi is IBDoomed at 3.16.
  • The person whose PPD 4 is closest to the value of the best ERA of all starters in the Major Leagues (Pedro Martinez - 2.01) is T-Dub with a PPD of 2.08.
  • The person whose PPD 4 is closest to the value of the worst team ERA in the Major Leagues (Texas - 6.04) is Bakhtosh Redclaw with a PPD of 6.12.
  • The person whose post count since PPD 3 is closest to the value of the NHL player with the most shots on goals in the 2000-2001 season (Pavel Bure - 384) is CeeKay 2001 SE with 380.
  • The person whose total post count is closest to the number of registered forum users at Gonegold (2099) is Rob Merritt with 2237.
  • The person whose post count since PPD 3 is closest to the projected number of hits Ichiro Suzuki will get this year (266) is The Meal with 260.
  • The person whose overall post count is closest to the NFL's rushing leader from 2000 (Edgerrin James - 1709) is bcr19374 with 1720.
  • The person whose overall PPD is closest to 666 is phormio with 651.
  • The person whose Total Days is closest to the number of games Andy has in his collection (464) is Blackberry with 450.
  • The person whose Total Posts is closest to the number of CDs Andy has in his collection (1409) is rrmorton with 1428.
  • The person whose Posts since PPD 3 is closest to the value of the numbers of Rich's ICQ # added together (34) is Zaxxon with 34.

  • If Rich continues to post at his current rate, it will take 12320 days (approximately 34 years) to make his 2757th post (equal to the current high).

  • Tim posted, on average, every 2 hours and 5 minutes since PPD 3.  Rich Laporte posted, on average, every 120 hours.

  • Tim has had the most variance between overall PPD and PPD 4, going from 2.83 to 11.54 PPD.

  • If Rich was the second person to register in the Gonegold forums, who was the first?

The Numbers:

Name Posts Days PPD3 Total PPD Posts Since 4/23/01 PPD4
       
Tim 1589 566 1.99 2.83 577 11.54
Napoleon 2308 443 4.43 5.21 567 11.34
Simon 2715 366 6.8 7.42 565 11.30
bcr19374  * 1720 165 10.75 10.42 484 9.68
Tebunker  * 1187 166 6.28 7.15 459 9.18
Rob Merritt 2237 524 3.83 4.27 418 8.36
CeeKay 2001 SE 886 175 4.05 5.06 380 7.60
joelmathis 2757 727 3.51 3.79 376 7.52
JetFred 1513 406 3.21 3.73 369 7.38
DragonFyre 808 263 2.07 3.07 368 7.36
Metalhed 1397 407 2.90 3.43 348 6.96
rrmorton 1428 404 3.10 3.53 339 6.78
Andy 1801 736 2.14 2.45 334 6.68
Bakhtosh Redclaw 1618 412 3.62 3.93 306 6.12
IBDoomed 707 224 2.40 3.16 284 5.68
The_Meal 1227 428 2.56 2.87 260 5.20
EvilHomer3k 319 69 3.47 4.62 253 5.06
Kelric Varchilde 1215 249 4.83 4.88 252 5.04
ImLawBoy 1700 522 3.08 3.25 246 4.92
BobM 1508 400 3.60 3.77 243 4.86
farleybarnstorm 1133 404 2.52 2.80 239 4.78
Gedd 778 283 2.40 2.75 238 4.76
joeyjazz 939 571 1.36 1.64 230 4.60
Hetz 568 351 .86 1.62 219 4.38
MagicBoy 754 383 1.61 1.97 215 4.30
Gumps 593 429 1.01 1.38 209 4.18
Naednek 1171 438 2.50 2.67 214 4.28
setaside 594 192 2.78 3.09 199 3.98
Howitzer 384 194 1.75 1.98 132 2.64
Lower 536 509 .89 1.05 128 2.56
phormio 651 350 1.78 1.86 116 2.32
Qantaga 556 383 1.35 1.45 107 2.14
Vanguard 396 413 .8 0.96 106 2.12
T-Dub 419 126 4.14 3.33 104 2.08
Beef_Genie 245 312 .59 0.79 91 1.82
Gellar 357 417 .75 .86 83 1.66
cirdan 505 368 1.33 1.37 80 1.60
gorham09 341 314 1 1.09 79 1.58
Stool 549 384 1.41 1.43 77 1.54
Blackberry 620 450 1.37 1.38 71 1.42
Drwest 222 210 .98 1.06 65 1.30
Malificent 333 400 .77 0.83 62 1.24
khomotso 393 335 1.20 1.17 54 1.08
Rittchard 388 412 .975 0.94 35 0.7
Zaxxon 267 317 .815 0.79 34 0.68
Trey 71 374 .15 0.19 23 0.46
Rich_Laporte 293 740 .41 0.40 10 0.2
Mean 972.50 325 2.53 2.85 218.29 4.37
Median 754 333 2.14 2.67 217 4.34

* - lost posts due to the great server crash of 2000.