| Conti Germany. July 02 2012 04:32. Posts 1243 | Profile # |
Howdy there and welcome to the top 50 streamers list thread for this month! 
For those of you who don't already know what this is about: I'm gathering various data from all the streams that are presented on teamliquid.net (viewers, game, events, etc.) and use that data to produce the pretty tables you see below. The tables only contain SC2 players (that is, people streaming games of Starcraft 2 being played by themselves) and not casters, teams or other streams. The tables also only contain Starcraft 2 related activities, a SC2 streamer streaming Dota2 or other games is not being taken into account (which explains Destiny's comparatively low streaming hours).
A minor difference to last month is that a streamer has to stream 5 hours (not 2.5) to be included in the ranking. Due to the feedback from last month's thread, I've created two tables this time: One sorting the streamers by the average viewers, as last time, and one sorting the streamers by average viewers * hours streamed. I'm still not sure which version is more useful, to be honest. Sorting by average viewers punishes streamers that stream during unfavorable times or big events, as well as those that stream a lot. Sorting by average viewers * hours streamed obviously favors those who stream a lot, even if they are not as popular. Since I'm a lazy bum, I've created a poll at the bottom of this thread to let you guys decide which way is better.
Now, without further ado, here's the two tables:
(The HTML versions contain some more information due to space reasons.)
Some random observations:
- It seems that the downwards trend in viewers from last time has mostly been averted. Hooray! Only Idra lost a whole lot of viewers this time. But he also streamed a whole lot more last month (going up from 16 hours to over 50), so that might be a reasonable explanation for that.
- To my surprise, Hui is not #1 in the viewers*hours category. I expected him to be in the number one spot in that category for all eternity solely because he streams way more than anyone else. Guess I was wrong!
- Notable absentees this time around: HuK, MC, HerO, SaSe, SeleCT, Nerchio, Feast and Hasu. They either didn't stream at all last month or not enough to be included in the rankings.
- For some reason, Hui has two streams on teamliquid: "Hui ." and "wayne379". They both link to the same stream. Sometimes one is used, sometimes the other, sometimes both at the same time. This seriously confuddled my script and required some adjustments.
- Congratulations to
 ailuj for being the first female streamer on the list!
- Congrats also to Root Gaming for having six(!) players in the viewers*hours ranking. Geez, you guys do stream a lot!
That's all I can think of for now. Hope you guys enjoyed!
Oh, yeah, and here's the poll:
Poll: Which kind of ranking is better?Sort by average viewers * hours streamed (161) 56% Sort by average viewers (116) 41% Other (specify in comments) (8) 3% 285 total votes Your vote: Which kind of ranking is better? (Vote): Sort by average viewers
(Vote): Sort by average viewers * hours streamed
(Vote): Other (specify in comments)
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| Denzil United Kingdom. July 02 2012 04:36. Posts 3509 | Profile # |
With the increase in Idra streaming a decrease in viewership is to be expected because he no longer becomes so rare.
I presume the same trend would occur with stephano if he streamed as much |
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| graNite Germany. July 02 2012 04:38. Posts 1905 | Profile Blog # |
Great!
Is there a way to make extra statistics for viewers of a tournament? |
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| MrMercuG Netherlands. July 02 2012 04:43. Posts 1592 | Profile # |
| Wow, Hui streama ALOT... Thanks for the statistics |
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| Conti Germany. July 02 2012 04:45. Posts 1243 | Profile # |
On July 02 2012 04:38 graNite wrote:
Great!
Is there a way to make extra statistics for viewers of a tournament?
It depends. I do gather all the events data as well (everything that's under the "on air:" column to the right of teamliquid.net), and it's possible to get various data from this. Unfortunately, all the big, premier events (GSL, IPL, MLG) do not provide viewer data from the streams themselves. So, I cannot reasonably create a "most popular tournament" list, since the tournaments that are obviously most popular won't be included. For smaller tournaments, however, I can provide such data.
There's other caveats too, though. At times tournaments restream their events under the same event name, for instance, and there's no way for me to differentiate between the original airing and the restream. |
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| LeLfe France. July 02 2012 04:46. Posts 2340 | Profile # |
| thank you for releasing those figures, very interesting |
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| FunkQue United States. July 02 2012 04:48. Posts 159 | Profile # |
On July 02 2012 04:47 iNcontroL wrote:
too many events this month and I was out of town for a few weeks a couple times >_< I want to stream more !
OK >_< Glad to hear >_<Last edit: 2012-07-02 04:48:40 |
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| SpiZe Canada. July 02 2012 04:48. Posts 2295 | Profile # |
| MaximusBlack tearing it up |
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| hoivenmayven United States. July 02 2012 05:07. Posts 132 | Profile # |
MaximusBlackkk. So baller...
Keep it up! This is like TV ratings its awesome, lol. |
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| SilSol Sweden. July 02 2012 05:13. Posts 2665 | Profile # |
| The numbers still seems a bit low to me ;] |
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| Oiseaux United States. July 02 2012 05:22. Posts 615 | Profile # |
| For your poll, I voted for V*H, but I honestly like both. AV is cool to see which persons draw in the biggest viewer numbers when they're on, but V*H is cool to see which streamers could be potentially profiting the most from their streams. Both rankings are interesting in their own right. |
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| Nazeron Canada. July 02 2012 05:22. Posts 1032 | Profile # |
| Why is illusion listed as Z? hes T isnt he? |
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| Cultoviac Germany. July 02 2012 05:24. Posts 17 | Profile # |
Great job !
Went for the "other" option and would find it good if you stick to both of them as I think it adds a little more perspective to the numbers.
Would you mind to do even a third one where you add up all streaming activities of certain teams?
Maybe some of them are interested in how they fare against each other in terms of exposure on streams. |
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| Broodwurst Germany. July 02 2012 05:24. Posts 1174 | Profile # |
Hui - 305 hours of streaming in 30 days? o0
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| Oiseaux United States. July 02 2012 05:28. Posts 615 | Profile # |
On July 02 2012 05:24 Broodwurst wrote:
Hui - 305 hours of streaming in 30 days? o0
More than a third of the entire month he spent streaming. Kind of nuts to think about it like that. |
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| MaximusBlack Canada. July 02 2012 05:34. Posts 25 | Profile # |
| Thanks everyone! We're number 2!! |
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| Silencioseu Cyprus. July 02 2012 05:36. Posts 448 | Profile # |
On July 02 2012 05:24 Broodwurst wrote:
Hui - 305 hours of streaming in 30 days? o0
i think there are various players playing in his stream other than him so its not as tiring. |
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| nucLeaRTV Romania. July 02 2012 05:37. Posts 709 | Profile # |
| Wow Hui is a monster. Destiny as well streams a lot! :O |
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| 5ukkub Poland. July 02 2012 05:38. Posts 496 | Profile # |
Same for ForGG - 234 hours in 1 month...
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