CS Rarity List [WIP] - status update on page 75

[Solloby]

We're not talking about counting pets from the last rerelease, this project is for 2008 so it is not time-dependent.

Regarding counting all 2008 pets, there were 922987 pets adopted in 2008, the last of which was this one - http://www.chickensmoothie.com/viewpet.php?id=922987

That's too many to count? There were only about 20k pets adopted during Dec 18 in 2008 so we could always do a count of the rerelease; with that said I'm not sure what normal adopt pets may also have been picked up then which would skew the data.

If you guys want, we could start with July 2008 since we do have some July data already, to validate that selecting a sample to count is a valid method?

One issue we will encounter with August 2008 is that there were no adoption limits, so if people went crazy over balloons but didn't pick up many tribals, balloons will appear to be more common. But this is not actually correct because the rereleases don't consider adoption rates, they only consider rarity ratios inside litters. Perhaps counting the 2008 rerelease or the 2009 rerelease would give us better data? Alternatively, we could take the amount of individual pets adopted from each litter into consideration when determining their ratios.

Back in 2008, if you adopted 50 tribals and 30 balloon dogs, you did that because that is how many you wanted, not because of rarity differences or adoption differences. But if were to compare the rarities of say the first 30 tribals to the 30 balloon dogs, we could get an idea of interlitter ratios? Is that valid?

[harrison ford]

Whoo just did a ton of reading. I am so ready to get on board with this project! Probably will come back through tomorrow to re-read anything I may have missed-and of course give any ideas that may pop into my head! Keep up the good work guys!!

[Solloby]

What do you guys think of this for a spreadsheet template? I set it up for pet IDs 20000 - 20100
http://sta.sh/01v9wwygpw0l

If you like it, maybe our pet IDs for August 2008 could be these:
20000 - 20250
30000 - 30250
40000 - 50250
50000 - 50250

We could spread them across 1-2 spreadsheets for each range (125 - 250 pets) so 4-8 spreadsheets in total for this round?

[Schofield]

What do you guys think of this for a spreadsheet template? I set it up for pet IDs 20000 - 20100
http://sta.sh/01v9wwygpw0l

If you like it, maybe our pet IDs for August 2008 could be these:
20000 - 20250
30000 - 30250
40000 - 50250
50000 - 50250

We could spread them across 1-2 spreadsheets for each range (125 - 250 pets) so 4-8 spreadsheets in total for this round?

That looks fine to me.

I don't think 250 is too terribly many, so maybe each spreadsheet could record that many IDs? Eight spreadsheets is kind of a lot.

[Solloby]

Do these look ok then?
http://sta.sh/016st767athq
http://sta.sh/0sfox8yv7ln
http://sta.sh/0am9znd78gw
http://sta.sh/01i4hoi1zfm3

If so we can start accepting volunteers, and talk about other pets counts (like July 08 or Sept 08) that we could do as well.

I'd like to get this project moving swiftly if that's ok with everyone.

[Schofield]

Do these look ok then?
http://sta.sh/016st767athq
http://sta.sh/0sfox8yv7ln
http://sta.sh/0am9znd78gw
http://sta.sh/01i4hoi1zfm3

If so we can start accepting volunteers, and talk about other pets counts (like July 08 or Sept 08) that we could do as well.

I'd like to get this project moving swiftly if that's ok with everyone.

They look fine to me! (I only downloaded the first two since my computer's being slow and I assume they're all similar besides changing ranges.)

I'll be happy to take 250 and get a spreadsheet done tonight? Are we transferring the layout to google spreadsheets? Personally I find it easier to work there, but I can do this in an open office doc too.

[Solloby]

That would be fine if you want to claim the first spreadsheet.
When they are all done I'll just dump them all in one excel spreadsheet and upload + summarise results.
Then we can do another project; I know we have more than 4 people who want to help out so I'm sure we can do some July, September & Dec 18th counts too after the August ones are complete! <3

[Sinbreaker]

Id like to claim the second sheet ^^

[Solloby]

^ Go for it <3

[Sinbreaker]

So I downloaded the file, and got several files in it.
Which file is the sheet and which one should I focus most of my attention on for recording the pets?
I use a PC computer, and I noticed the files were made with Safari (at least I believe so)
Will this effect my ability to help?