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There has been a lot of talk about what is the average or median rank of players and how do you compare. There is no available information on what this is, but much conjecture. This is my estimation using some statistical estimation, so take it as you want.

Rumble Pit (since this is individual it is a good list to model, but all list will follow similar distributions)

Current information available via the stat pages as of Jan 21st 2005
27 - 3
26 - 4
25 - 3
24 - 19
23 - 32
22 - 54
21 - 104
20 - 223
19 - 373

Using this information and an assumption that there are at least 375,000 or so gamertags you can model a distribution backwards. (More people will lower the over all average and there were 400,000 unique players in the last 24 hours so this is a good figure to use.)

Estimated number in each rank from 18 down.

18 - 631
17 - 1,065
16 - 1,798
15 - 3,019
14 - 5,002
13 - 7,930
12 - 11,969
11 - 17,251
10 - 23,855
9 - 31,782
8 - 40,930
7 - 51,062
6 - 55,788
5 - 45,077
4 - 34,244
3 - 22,986
2 - 14,028
1 - 6,792

Total 376,104 (Median = 188,007) (1-6 total = 178,905) (7-27 total = 197,109)
Average Rank 6 or 7.

You can manipulate this function somewhat but to produce a statistically reasonable curve you cannot modify it to dramatically to achieve approx 400,000 people with the inital rates of rank from 19 through 27. Plot the points yourself and you will see a relatively nice curve approximating a normal distribution.

Over time this distribution will flatten out and move toward a higher rank as more people reach higher levels, but right now you could say that the average rank in Rumble Pit is about 6 or 7 and possibly as high as 8 or low as 5.

  • 01.21.2005 9:10 AM PDT