Matt N
CF Legend
To be honest, I think it was quite a tough one to truly place a statistical value upon compared to the other two questions I asked, so I’ll digress that it may be less accurate than the other two. There’s no easy statistical way of telling whether a park is quantity over quality or quality over quantity, whereas things like consistency and general rating are a lot easier to measure statistically. So in that regard, I wasn’t really sure what to go with for this question.I think there's something off in this somewhere if Energylandia doesn't feature in the "quantity over quality" list. Yes, Zadra and Hyperion will top out most the rankings, but there's too much filler crap for them to not register here, surely? As soon as I saw the title, I thought "boom, Energylandia".
The "mean/count" is an interesting one, cos essentially all you're doing there is "sum of rankings/count squared". Sum of count tracks linearly with number of coasters, rather than the squared basis of the denominator. I think this means you probably slightly unfairly weight this towards smaller parks. I think...? Not sure, been a long day for thinking about stats.
Standard deviation may also help you hone in on which parks have the most consistent selection. If you wanted to then look at the quality/quantity argument you could do some relationship between StdDev and Mean/Median to track which park has the highest mean, but lowest StdDev - I guess StdDev/Mean where smaller is better.
I’ll digress that mean/count does weight “quality over quantity” towards smaller parks to a degree, but I guess one could argue that having more roller coasters does make you more quantity-focused to a certain extent.
Interestingly, though, Freizeit-Land Geiselwind won quantity over quality, and that park has the minimum number of scoreable roller coasters required to qualify (5), so I’m not sure that coaster count matters as much as you might expect…
In terms of Energylandia; it’s worth noting that this is only roller coasters with a score on Captain Coaster. As Captain Coaster doesn’t score kiddie coasters, Energylandia is aided by the fact that it only has 11 scoreable roller coasters, thus a lot of the SBF children’s rides aren’t counted towards their total. I’d wager that Energylandia would rank a lot higher in “quantity over quality” if these were counted, and I will admit that Captain Coaster not giving kiddie coasters a score is one of the key flaws of my method. It does favour parks like Energylandia in terms of average quality (although Energylandia is somewhat of an outlier in terms of how many coasters are excluded; most parks only have 1 ride in the “kiddie” category, perhaps 2 at most), and it does also add inconsistency, because rides of a certain type might get called a kiddie coaster in one park but not in another (CC’s definition of “kiddie” is somewhat inconsistent).
Nonetheless, I’m not sure there was really any other site or pool of data I could have used, as CC does very helpfully have average scores for each ride that are very easy to use for data manipulation, and it was ultimately only a few rides and parks that were affected by that.
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