Extreme / Thrill / Family count

[Peet]

Another topic for those of us who love to play with our spreadsheets - I recently added a "scale" column to mine, mirroring the rcdb scale field ie. Extreme, Thrill or Family (rcdb also has Kiddie but it's unclear what the distinction is between Family and Kiddie - in fact some wacky worms are Family and some are Kiddie, so I'm just lumping it all in as Family).

Here's my breakdown for each category:

Note I don't follow rcdb exactly - there are some coasters where this field is blank so I made my own judgement, and there are also one or two where I disagree, for example Dragon at Energylandia is listed as Family, probably because it's described as an SFC by Vekoma, but it definitely packs enough of a punch to be considered Thrill.

Anyone else care to work out your count breakdown by scale?

Edit, for comparison, here's the global breakdown from rcdb:

 

[Matt N]

Fun topic idea @Peet!

For me, I’ve done 79 coasters, and using the RCDB classifications, the split is as follows:

• Extreme: 31 (39.2% of count)
• Thrill: 25 (31.6% of count)
• Family: 22 (27.8% of count)
• Kiddie: 0 (0% of count)
• Unclassified: 1 (Wilde Maus XXL, if you’re wondering) (1.3% of count)

Rather interestingly, my most ridden categories go in ascending order of thrill level, with Extreme being my most ridden category and Kiddie being my least ridden category (no kiddie coasters ridden!). Unless you count unclassified as a category, in which case that beats kiddie…

 

[JoshC.]

I recently updated my spreadsheet to track this, so this was nice and easy:

 

[Hixee]

RCDB's system is a bit off in places, but generally speaking I've just blindly followed their system:

Extreme Intensity - 332 [48%]
Thrill Intensity - 181 [26%]
Family Intensity - 181 [26%]

I grouped Kiddie into Family, as those were some of the most dubious.

 

[Will]

I don't actually have this column on my spreadsheet - and I'm curious to know, so maybe I'll add it in next time I can't sleep!!

 

[Will]

Update... this passed a few merry hours.
Still don't understand why there's so many unknowns.



Not having got a new 'Extreme' coaster since October 2019 also offends me.

 

[Hixee]

Still don't understand why there's so many unknowns.

Indeed, a complete mystery to me too. Surely that wouldn't take more than an hour or so to go through and classify them...? For the "unclassified" ones in my count I just assigned them one myself - it's pretty obvious which one they should be.

 

[cookie]

Out of 137 creds:

 

[Will]

A bit more info for the stattos, the curious and the bored...




(That's also just reminded me to update my gas/electricity spreadsheet...
I also wish I could use this when prospective employers want to test my data analysis skills!)