Psst, hey lost_spook!

[eve11]

Guess who is the most well-rounded writer on Teaspoon?

By which I mean the entropy of the distribution of eras in your stories is as closest to uniform across all eras as anyone gets in the database. And you have a lot of stories too!

I shall have a true post up at some point but am off to a picnic now so pictures will have to wait.

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[(Anonymous)]

Congrats lost_spook!

I am fairly entertained by these statistics. As soon as I started reading I started trying to figure out what other authors might be in the AllSixteen club. I thought of the JJ and Johne straightaways, and, while I haven't read much of his fic, Gary_Merchant doesn't surprise me any because he does have A LOT. I was somewhat surprised that Dbskyler, AstroGirl, and a few others who regularly show up on Calufrax didn't make it.

[thisbluespirit]

Why, thanks, Nonny Mush, whoever you may be!

(And, yes, I'd have expected there to be more of us - but probably excluding spin-offs, there are - no doubt people like Calapine and Clocket Patch as well.)

[clocketpatch]

Lol, that was me, not realizing that I wasn't logged in (Calapine and Livii were the two Calufrax people who I couldn't remember but expected to see, if that even makes sense. They're on Eve11's big list below though)

[eve11]

Gary Merchant was right behind lost_spook in the entropy value by story, and I think he took a hit due to a high mode in "Multi-Era", which could be interpreted as less of a preference. So he and she are likely pretty comparable. :)

The distribution of eras (discounting characters, which as dbskyler points out above can lead to some skipping of characters) is:

   1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9   10   11   12   13   14   15   16 
1935  886  506  281  169   98   59   47   29   23   23   27   16   11    4    4 

I looked at the 35 authors with 13 or more out of 16 eras represented. Depending on the breakdown of who they wrote and when, even those with lots of eras can have (relatively) lower entropy, but yes, lots of familiar names show up. Here is them ranked by story entropy, but I also included their stats for the breakdown weighted by story (S) and word count (W):

(in next comment due to size)

[eve11]

I should say, above is the distribution of the number of eras reported per author, so eg, 1935 authors had only one era listed, 886 had 2, etc.

Other authors should go in this table likely, barring tagging inconsistencies/peculiarities as discussed.

name            Stories Words   SEntropy        WEntropy        SMode   WMode           SMax    WMax    NonZeroEra
vvj5            90      734366  2.5092          2.2802  Third.Doctor    Third.Doctor    0.2221  0.2041  16
infiniteviking  74      27849   2.4894          2.2367  Ninth.Doctor    Sixth.Doctor    0.1301  0.2865  14
Gary Merchant   199     513541  2.4565          2.1872  Multi.Era       Multi.Era       0.2203  0.3776  16
Sceadu          48      54299   2.4550          2.1961  Ninth.Doctor    Second.Doctor   0.1667  0.1991  13
ClocketPatch    53      217930  2.3731          2.1753  Tenth.Doctor    Multi.Era       0.2459  0.2146  14
neveralarch     48      185693  2.3466          2.1827  Other.Doctors   Third.Doctor    0.1944  0.1989  13
JJPOR           84      858410  2.3030          2.2296  Fourth.Doctor   Other.Era       0.1840  0.2341  16
johne           87      335942  2.2851          1.7511  Second.Doctor   Second.Doctor   0.3101  0.5194  16
Calapine        136     417863  2.2782          1.7267  Tenth.Doctor    Tenth.Doctor    0.2904  0.4748  15
Biichan         34      59498   2.2417          2.1272  Multi.Era       Multi.Era       0.2206  0.2755  14
drox            61      22425   2.2368          2.0397  Eighth.Doctor   Eighth.Doctor   0.2951  0.2733  13
King Rat        33      92258   2.2341          1.4757  Ninth.Doctor    Third.Doctor    0.1894  0.5831  13
Lyricwritesprose51      143737  2.1396          2.1091  Eleventh.Doctor Eleventh.Doctor 0.3595  0.3281  14
Paranoid Seat   25      62893   2.1309          2.0515  Tenth.Doctor    Multi.Era       0.2400  0.2711  13
amaresu         37      29266   2.1043          1.9723  Seventh.Doctor  Seventh.Doctor  0.2982  0.3515  13
were_lemur      83      12876   2.1002          1.8945  Tenth.Doctor    Tenth.Doctor    0.3775  0.4254  14
Derek Metaltron 16      55989   2.0667          2.2015  Tenth.Doctor    Tenth.Doctor    0.2562  0.2651  14
Spydurwebb      36      269173  2.0657          1.8776  Fourth.Doctor   Fourth.Doctor   0.2812  0.3340  13
aralias         52      277425  2.0168          1.8037  Tenth.Doctor    Eighth.Doctor   0.2676  0.4122  15
LilacFree       73      490817  1.9825          1.4067  Fifth.Doctor    Fifth.Doctor    0.3333  0.6260  13
Danny_B         64      452926  1.9357          1.5562  Multi.Era       Multi.Era       0.4622  0.6090  14
livii           95      152699  1.8717          1.6606  Multi.Era       Multi.Era       0.4281  0.5404  14
Daystar Searcher37      85682   1.8332          1.7215  Fourth.Doctor   Third.Doctor    0.3989  0.3552  14
TimeLord89      12      15652   1.8026          1.6856  Multi.Era       Multi.Era       0.4231  0.5075  13
bluedawn        11      244188  1.7963          1.7802  Ninth.Doctor    Ninth.Doctor    0.3613  0.3344  13
Library_Lover   17      19460   1.7929          1.9170  Tenth.Doctor    Tenth.Doctor    0.3922  0.4586  13
Marcus S Lazarus24      504193  1.7548          1.9727  Tenth.Doctor    Tenth.Doctor    0.4552  0.3825  14
enchantment     37      242401  1.6187          1.4924  Tenth.Doctor    Tenth.Doctor    0.4908  0.5220  13
finmagik        40      78898   1.5574          1.9583  Sixth.Doctor    Sixth.Doctor    0.5515  0.3829  13
schildkroet     126     533739  1.5555          0.9783  Tenth.Doctor    Tenth.Doctor    0.5368  0.7276  13
nostalgia       204     272946  1.4832          1.2743  Tenth.Doctor    Tenth.Doctor    0.4559  0.4962  15
missvmarigold   123     121661  1.1515          1.1441  Torchwood       Torchwood       0.7053  0.6899  13
betawho         150     330715  1.0841          1.4109  Eleventh.Doctor Eleventh.Doctor 0.7367  0.6013  13
rickmaniac101   108     214777  0.8127          0.8614  Tenth.Doctor    Tenth.Doctor    0.8167  0.7808  14
Vicky Smith     212     336872  0.6644          0.5282  Tenth.Doctor    Tenth.Doctor    0.8110  0.8152  15

(ETA: LJ is being stupid slow for me :( )

[thisbluespirit]

Ooo. *looks at info with wide-eyed interest*

:-)

[clocketpatch]

Shows how small Who fandom can be, while being at the same time so big, with the way it divides up between who writes what, ships what, etc. Very interesting stats to be sure.