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Old 10-15-2006, 12:56 AM
StellarWind StellarWind is offline
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Default Re: Official Poker Site/Network Tracking thread

These number show the peak and not the average.

Suppose Jimmy's Poker Shack has 10 players during U.S. prime time and 5 players during European prime time. After Jimmy pulls out he still has 5 players during Euro prime but 0 players during U.S. prime time.

PokerSiteScout would tell you that Jimmy's peak has dropped by 50%. That's true, but it is equally true that Jimmy has actually lost 2/3 of his business.

PokerSiteScout 24-hour maximums are always going to overrate the size of Euro-centric sites compared to sites with successful worldwide diversification. It's the nature of the method. It's why networks like Tain that have no actual players rank so highly [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img].

PokerSiteScout would be much more useful if it published average traffic statistics and ranked accordingly. For example add up 24 hourly measurements taken during a day and divide by 24.
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