Mort 652 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Found this while browsing /r/worldoftanks Notable observations:On average, players with names starting with uppercase letters will perform better than players with names starting with lowercase letters. The only exception is the lowercase ex.The best players seem to be born between 1989 and 1997.Names with the years 2005-2012 seem to get better since those years are unlikely to be linked to the year they were born.I would speculate that players with the years 2013-2015 in their names are worse because those years are probably the years that they signed up to WoT, giving them less time to gain experience over the players that signed up between 2010 and 2012. I somewhat doubt this conclusion, but it's the only one that makes sense to me. (Edit: The OP of the Reddit thread backs up my conclusion: "When you register, if the nickname you choose is already taken, the game offers you alternatives, one of them is the same nick with current year appended. And there were a lot of registrations when game opened in 2010 to much appraise.")Names starting with an underscore have the second highest WN8 on average. Not entirely unexpected.No idea why the letter J is so high, or why the letter V is so low. Something to do with the Russian server maybe???Players with only 2 letters in their names are on average the best players on the server. Some of this may be small sample size, but it's not exactly surprising since players with 2 letters in their names will have signed up long before most other players, giving them more experience.I'm not sure what server(s) this data is polled from, but it's possible that it only comes from the Russian server. The data is from all of the servers. Zinn, Rexxie, HemanathanRX7 and 13 others 16 Link to post Share on other sites
Zinn 1,333 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Looks like I'm gonna do well when you also add that I was born in 86, one of the better years Link to post Share on other sites
graukatze 225 Share Posted July 17, 2015 ANYONE with 'Sly', 'Rommel', 'DesertFox', 'Guderian' is 100% tomato. Smbakeresq, MisterKnut, TeaTime and 11 others 14 Link to post Share on other sites
_______o7__Jonzo3000 3 Share Posted July 17, 2015 anyone with tanker, or commander that isnt reroll/rename is potato TeaTime and Smbakeresq 2 Link to post Share on other sites
KnobbyHobbGoblin 1,002 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Underscores represent Shifty_101st, An_Arty_Player_Hits_You, HemanathanRX7 and 2 others 5 Link to post Share on other sites
Panzer9Supertiger 365 Share Posted July 17, 2015 ANYONE with 'Sly', 'Rommel', 'DesertFox', 'Guderian' is 100% tomato.Ehhh, you would generally expect someone with my name to be terrible, but that isn't entirely the case. Anyone remember when OTTER had like half the clan rename to include _xXx_ bookmarks? Link to post Share on other sites
TheMarine0341 4,972 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Time to change IGN to SlyRommelDesertFox Cunicularius, MoshiMoshi778, Ollie Tabooger and 8 others 11 Link to post Share on other sites
Rexxie 10,788 Share Posted July 17, 2015 TFW "R" is low due to Rommel Funny stats, lol. Nothing atypical; people in their prime are great, old people are shit, young people are mediocre. Still hilarious, though XD jacg123 1 Link to post Share on other sites
xRightygamer 243 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Funny stats, lol. Nothing atypical; people in their prime are great, old people are shit, young people are mediocre. Still hilarious, though XDTFW young = mediocre There are exceptions to every most cases, just not many. Link to post Share on other sites
Va1heru 1,725 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Why the fuck is "v" so bad, what? Link to post Share on other sites
Mort 652 Author Share Posted July 17, 2015 The OP of the Reddit thread told me that the majority of 2-character names are on the Korean server. I'm not sure how exactly that affects the average wn8 of 2-character names, but I'm sure it does in some way or another.It's still probable that 2-character names were snatched up earlier, even on the Korean server, giving the players with 2-character names more time to become experience players. Link to post Share on other sites
Zinn 1,333 Share Posted July 17, 2015 TFW young = mediocre There are exceptions to every most cases, just not many.It's not actually an age thing as such, it's more that the very young often don't understand the mechanics well, the late teens to mid-20s have way too much time on their hands (usually only some school work and if they have jobs, there is no wife/kids to take care of) and it basically just shows that as you grow older and get more responsibilities at work/home, there is less time for try-harding tanks for 2+ hours every day. Imagine having to come home from work at 5 pm, have dinner with the family, put the kid to bed by 7:30 pm and then spend some time with the wife afterwards: How much time for tanking will there be left if you have to get up at 7 am? Are you sure you even want to play tanks that much rather than relaxing? I can certainly imagine how it may just become a weekend thing or a few casual battles on some nights.Why the fuck is "v" so bad, what?Because you're grouped with people like Veitilein Ollie Tabooger, HemanathanRX7, Gashtag and 9 others 12 Link to post Share on other sites
#Lunaughty 1,230 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Anyone else see this? Fulvin, Kuroialty, kolni and 28 others 31 Link to post Share on other sites
Assassin7 4,353 Share Posted July 17, 2015 I swear, that anyone that puts XXxXXx_imastupidname_XxX is nearly garunteed to be extremely shitand under 15 years old Chiroptor and Smbakeresq 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Rexxie 10,788 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Or anyone who misspells their own name! DyingDyingDead, kolni, RNG_ and 12 others 15 Link to post Share on other sites
1n_Soviet_Russia 1,299 Share Posted July 18, 2015 BRB changing name to _Ji Link to post Share on other sites
jackquerudo 2,405 Share Posted July 18, 2015 Technically I should be garbage #Lunaughty, MisterKnut and Itchi 3 Link to post Share on other sites
Masterpupil2 946 Share Posted July 18, 2015 This explains why I started playing better when I renamed myself to Masterpupil from masterpupil2. Fucking knew it.Also, how do 5 year-olds play better than 10 year-olds? Link to post Share on other sites
#Lunaughty 1,230 Share Posted July 18, 2015 I AM trash, but according to this it says I should be 2x the trash. 2x the spaghetti. 2x the pizza. Link to post Share on other sites
Zinn 1,333 Share Posted July 18, 2015 This explains why I started playing better when I renamed myself to Masterpupil from masterpupil2. Fucking knew it.Also, how do 5 year-olds play better than 10 year-olds?That's actually in the OP: WoT is 5 years old on our end (I believe beta access was in 2010), so rather than your birthday the closest names are more likely associated with account creation in either WoT or some other game, whereas once we start going back to something like 2000, it's someone who's 15 today. Link to post Share on other sites
HemanathanRX7 136 Share Posted July 18, 2015 started off with HemanathanRX7 then renamed to Dumb_Plebian_Society_SG then now renamed to _xXx_Heman_o7o7o7_xXx_ for maxmium memes :^) H master race obviously :^))))) 1995 so i must be good at tanks but then i'm terrible at times because YOLO MEME SWAG YO Link to post Share on other sites
KillerTiger 476 Share Posted July 18, 2015 Names starting with an underscore have the second highest WN8 on average. Not entirely unexpected.Players with only 2 letters in their names are on average the best players on the server. Some of this may be small sample size, but it's not exactly surprising since players with 2 letters in their names will have signed up long before most other players, giving them more experience._KT Dukkerz, The_direwolf and DasWiking 3 Link to post Share on other sites
BoilerBandsman 427 Share Posted July 18, 2015 Also, how do 5 year-olds play better than 10 year-olds?I'm guessing anything from 2007 to 2012 are a mixture of the previously mentioned naming suggestions from Wargaming and high school or college graduating classes of players born in the late 80s-90s. Basically it's the same age group as the other peak, just represented by different numbers. Link to post Share on other sites
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