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2020 SCFZ Letterboxd Statpalooza

Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2020 10:33 pm
by kanafani
Season's greetings!

Watch this space for the 2020 SCFZ letterboxd statpalooza.

I'll compile useless but fun trivia on SCFZ's 2020 movie watching habits, based on champs' letterboxd diary entries.

If you don't use the diary feature, fear not, all hope is not lost. I will try to also run 'all-time' numbers to answer some burning questions: Which directors are the highest rated by SCFZ? Which movies? What is the best movie year in history? What is the unofficial SCFZ top 100? etc.

Champs in my database (if your name is not here, my apologies, just let me know and I shall include you in the festivities).
  • arthur
  • brian
  • brotherdeacon
  • bure
  • evelyn
  • flabrezu
  • flip
  • greennui
  • gregx
  • holymanm
  • jal90
  • jiri
  • johnRyan
  • kanafani
  • karl
  • lencho
  • liquidnature
  • matias
  • mauries
  • MrCarmady
  • mesnalty
  • monsieurArkadin
  • nrh
  • pabz
  • patrick
  • rischka
  • roujin
  • silga
  • therouxxx
  • thoxans
  • twodeadmagpies
  • umbugbene
  • vikram
  • wba

Re: 2020 SCFZ Letterboxd Statpalooza

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2020 4:50 am
by therouxxx
kanafani wrote: Sat Dec 26, 2020 10:33 pm
Could you add my lb username too? https://scfzforum.org/phpBB3/viewtopic. ... 109#p26109

Re: 2020 SCFZ Letterboxd Statpalooza

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2020 2:25 pm
by kanafani
therouxxx wrote: Sun Dec 27, 2020 4:50 am Could you add my lb username too? https://scfzforum.org/phpBB3/viewtopic. ... 109#p26109
Added!

Re: 2020 SCFZ Letterboxd Statpalooza

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2020 2:27 pm
by kanafani
Trivia questions:
1) How many unique movies have been logged in champs' diaries in 2020?
2) How logged the most movies in 2020?
3) Who is the most watched director in 2020?

Re: 2020 SCFZ Letterboxd Statpalooza

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2020 3:51 pm
by therouxxx
Thank you!

Re: 2020 SCFZ Letterboxd Statpalooza

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2020 5:54 pm
by Lencho of the Apes
Trivia:

1) 5280, now that I understand the question.
2) no comment
3) Ionno, Hong Sang-Soo seems like a contender, or Wong Kar-Wei? Oliveira? Unless one of the no-auteur-cred hacks I watch for completism should somehow outweigh twenty odd people. (Hyphen suppressed deliberately.

Re: 2020 SCFZ Letterboxd Statpalooza

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2020 6:03 pm
by ---
1 will be much higher than that. Maybe 5000?
2 Lencho
3 melies

Re: 2020 SCFZ Letterboxd Statpalooza

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2020 6:05 pm
by Lencho of the Apes
Oh, wait, maybe i misunderstood that #1 question -- I took it to mean "movies logged by only one member." Is it not that?

Re: 2020 SCFZ Letterboxd Statpalooza

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2020 6:12 pm
by kanafani
Lencho of the Apes wrote: Sun Dec 27, 2020 6:05 pm Oh, wait, maybe i misunderstood that #1 question -- I took it to mean "movies logged by only one member." Is it not that?
I meant collectively by everyone

Re: 2020 SCFZ Letterboxd Statpalooza

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2020 7:06 pm
by kanafani
Number of 2020 diary entries, per champ:
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Re: 2020 SCFZ Letterboxd Statpalooza

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2020 7:08 pm
by kanafani
SCFZ's most watched films of 2020:
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Re: 2020 SCFZ Letterboxd Statpalooza

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2020 7:12 pm
by kanafani
Number of unique movies collectively watched by champs in 2020: 8,093

Re: 2020 SCFZ Letterboxd Statpalooza

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2020 7:16 pm
by kanafani
2020's most logged directors:
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Re: 2020 SCFZ Letterboxd Statpalooza

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2020 7:18 pm
by kanafani
Distribution of logged 2020 movies, by year of release:
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Re: 2020 SCFZ Letterboxd Statpalooza

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2020 7:20 pm
by kanafani
where were the movies we watched made?
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Re: 2020 SCFZ Letterboxd Statpalooza

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2020 7:22 pm
by kanafani
Most watched director in 2020 for each champ:
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Re: 2020 SCFZ Letterboxd Statpalooza

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2020 7:25 pm
by kanafani
In 2020, which champ has the most common logs with you?
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Re: 2020 SCFZ Letterboxd Statpalooza

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2020 7:49 pm
by kanafani
Here are the top 40 highest rated movies of 2020, if I consider movies with at least 3 ratings:
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Re: 2020 SCFZ Letterboxd Statpalooza

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2020 7:51 pm
by kanafani
Bottom 40 lowest rated movies in 2020, if I restrict things to movies with at least 3 ratings:
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Re: 2020 SCFZ Letterboxd Statpalooza

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2020 7:53 pm
by kanafani
If I restrict results to movies with at least 4 ratings, here is the 2020 top 40:
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Re: 2020 SCFZ Letterboxd Statpalooza

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2020 7:54 pm
by kanafani
Lowest rated 40 movies, if I restrict results to movies with at least 4 ratings:
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Re: 2020 SCFZ Letterboxd Statpalooza

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2020 8:27 pm
by flip
kanafani wrote: Sun Dec 27, 2020 2:27 pm Trivia questions:
1) How many unique movies have been logged in champs' diaries in 2020?
2) How logged the most movies in 2020?
3) Who is the most watched director in 2020?
i haven't looked at any of the stats yet (yay stats!) so not sure if the questions have been answered yet, but here are my guesses:

1) i will guess an average of 285 unique films per person, not sure how many people there are
2) st gloede (not sure if a participant?) or johnryan i will guess, but this might be a question more about 'who uses letterboxd most' than about movie-watching, and about letterboxd activity i have no idea
3) because of the poll, i will guess lumiere!

edit:
-- i guessed 9690, actual answer 8093
-- johnryan came 2nd!
-- lumiere came 2nd!

sorry lencho i feel like i underestimated you :(

Re: 2020 SCFZ Letterboxd Statpalooza

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2020 8:30 pm
by kanafani
2020's highest rated directors (10 ratings minimum):
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Re: 2020 SCFZ Letterboxd Statpalooza

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2020 8:31 pm
by kanafani
2020's worst rated directors (10 ratings minimum):
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Re: 2020 SCFZ Letterboxd Statpalooza

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2020 8:33 pm
by kanafani
I was taken aback by seeing Douglas Sirk in the bottom of the directors list, and at first I thought that I had a bug for sure. But apparently the rating is driven by quite a few low-rated (minor?) Sirk movies, such as first legion, la habanera, and court concert.

Re: 2020 SCFZ Letterboxd Statpalooza

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2020 8:36 pm
by kanafani
OK I'm getting out of steam, so I will continue tomorrow.

Coming up, all-time stats!

If you think of some other interesting stat we can crunch for 2020, let me know!

Re: 2020 SCFZ Letterboxd Statpalooza

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2020 9:00 pm
by flip
love this kind of stuff, thanks kanafani! ideas for other things you could run if you like the ideas:

* maybe a 2-ratings-minimum top films from the year 2020 by average rating? kind of a preview/suggested viewings list in preparation for our best-of-2020 poll

* i find it interesting to see where scfz diverges from letterboxd consensus. so it might be interesting to see the films where the differences between scfzer average rating and letterboxd user average rating are highest and lowest (most negative). for lower-viewed films though, that might be tricky, because the scfz ratings might be meaningfully influencing the overall average, and you'd probably want to extract the scfz ratings from the letterboxd average. not sure what data is available to you, but if there are 's' scfzers who have given an average rating of 'a' to a film, and N letterboxd users in total who have given an average rating of 'A' to that film, i think you'd want to calculate

a - [(NA-sa)/(N - s)]

Re: 2020 SCFZ Letterboxd Statpalooza

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2020 9:02 pm
by flip
and there are some really surprising results in the data! duras had more views than godard? rollin had more views than scorsese? interesting!

Re: 2020 SCFZ Letterboxd Statpalooza

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2020 9:19 pm
by kanafani
flip wrote: Sun Dec 27, 2020 9:00 pm love this kind of stuff, thanks kanafani! ideas for other things you could run if you like the ideas:

* maybe a 2-ratings-minimum top films from the year 2020 by average rating? kind of a preview/suggested viewings list in preparation for our best-of-2020 poll

* i find it interesting to see where scfz diverges from letterboxd consensus. so it might be interesting to see the films where the differences between scfzer average rating and letterboxd user average rating are highest and lowest (most negative). for lower-viewed films though, that might be tricky, because the scfz ratings might be meaningfully influencing the overall average, and you'd probably want to extract the scfz ratings from the letterboxd average. not sure what data is available to you, but if there are 's' scfzers who have given an average rating of 'a' to a film, and N letterboxd users in total who have given an average rating of 'A' to that film, i think you'd want to calculate

a - [(NA-sa)/(N - s)]
First one is simple enough!

I don’t have data on letterboxd averages and it would be a hassle to get them at this point, so unfortunately request #2 is out

Re: 2020 SCFZ Letterboxd Statpalooza

Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2020 1:53 am
by Holymanm
Yay stats!!! Some good stuff here! John Ryan is everybody's best buddy :shock: