And the Golden Banana Award for WSO's Most Valuable Monkey Goes To...
CompBanker!!!!!!!!
So, for a side project in an analytics club I am in, I decided to use some statistical measures to evaluate the monkeys here on WSO. I took the top 250 monkeys and calculated 10 different metrics, each with their own point total and ranked them accordingly.
At the end of my statistical analysis, CompBanker was the winner by a decent margin. I will not disclose any further information for certain reasons (privacy etc) but I might be willing to tell you your ranking...for the right price (JK).
Also, I may publish the top 5 or top 10. Still deciding.
Anyway, take this however you want but I found it to be incredibly accurate. And once again, Congrats CompBanker.
So, you post something like this and don't reveal the metrics, but then tell everyone how accurate it is.
...
Hedge funds don't reveal their strategies but they reveal their return each year. MVP's in sports are chosen based on voters who do not disclose their criteria for selection.
I for realz thought it was going to be me. I'm sure I'm runner-up.
you won "Will Hunting's Favorite WSO Poster"
Criteria:
Being Awesome: 10/10 Being a dick to everyone: 10/10 Cleverness:9.5/10 Humor:9/10 Sarcasm: 10/10 Ballerness:10/10
Cool post, thanks
I don't need to see the metrics, nor do I think the data is flawed.
Well done, Comp.
CompBanker is a solid contributor and one of my favorite subscribers.
But this looks like nothing more than someone making a post about his favorite poster.
I too ran my own personal ranking system and the person that came out on top (with myself excluded) is cphbravo.
I cannot reveal my system; however, I can state that closing replies with "regards" was a heavily weighted metric.
Winning!!!
Regards
Congrats on the coronation Comp
Agree with the above though - pretty genuinely curious in how you came up with this...
I saw Comp at a bar on Friday night and he looked like he'd just won something so he must have known this was coming.
And did you just justify not releasing the metrixs by comparing your ad hoc award to a hedge fund. This place is full of fucking dorks.
Ya, let's go back to r/finance
This is ridiculous.
Happy is spot on - not only did you run statistical analysis of WSO users, you then used the secrecy of a hedge fund to defend yourself. Sounds like you had a pretty exciting weekend.
I ran my own in-depth statistical analysis and found the winner to be.............................BLASTOISE!!!!! He is without a doubt the best poster on the entire internet. While it may seem like an odd choice, this is prove by science and cannot be disputed.
Why is everybody hating on Will's analysis?
He just proved global warming is for real and that we must can has carbon tax.
As a completely unbiased third party, I must say that the metrics used to prepare this analysis appear to be completely legit and should not be questioned. However, I am very curious as to which metrics you used or how you even went about analyzing them.
More like I looked like I did back when I was a banking analyst pulling all-nighters and trying to resist the urge to jump off a bridge. Friday was rough.man, I thought I would win, but gratz Comp I always knew you would reach the top!!!
^ congrats bro
Without making any implications, the application of such a "secret methodology" could be seen as your attempt to make a case for favoritism. I'm not saying I disagree because Comp is pretty damned good and awesome with what he does, but I am curious to see what the metrics are and how the Top 10 rounds out. Even something as shoddy as USNRW is open with their methodology... so why aren't you?
for those that didnt see (sign up for the newsletter!) made Compbanker the member of the week in the november 4th weekly wrap-up newsletter for his "solid contribution to the forum over the years"
I'd say interesting, but for all I know you could've just pulled CB out of your ass. That said, Comp is definitely one of the most helpful people on this site. Eddie, HPM, ANT, Midas, monty, etc are definitely up there with him, though.
HPM adds no value
this is clearly racist
BTW, just so there is no confusion, the penis jokes ARE the added value.
I get a boner whenever I see an hpm post. Now THAT is value.
Hence his username
Hey Guys,
I knew not releasing my method was going to get some people angry and cause them not to believe me. For the people that are saying that I am a nerd, I am the president of an analytics club on campus and during the weekly meetings I thought this would be a pretty cool project.
It has come up numerous times that there should be a yearly award for most helpful poster/worst poster/others so I went ahead and did one of them. I don't understand the sudden anger with it. Also, if this holds any weight to combat the above allegations of choosing CompBanker out of my ass/he is my favorite poster then so be it.
http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/who-do-you-think-are-the-most-hel…
That is a thread made by yours truly about a month ago....no mention of CompBanker by me. In fact, the 2 people who are complaining in this thread are the ones I cited as the most helpful to me. So, please, do realize that I am not lying, nor am I choosing someone out of my ass.
As CompBanker would say:
Regards
holy shit way to nerd the fuck out bro
Actually that's cph's signature, but it's the thought that counts?
Yea, I know it is his sig...
EDIT: I'm a fucking idiot. I meant to say "As as cph would say"...
well this turned into a cluster fuck
As soon as this thread wasn't about me, it was dogshit
edit the post, yes?
i agree Comp is the bomb, but I would love to hear the methodology as well...
my guess is it is some sort of SB/monkey shit ratio plus total points weighted thing?
Maybe he used NSB/C !
http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/banana-valuation-techniques
I would use something like a SB / monkey poo per post adjusted for log-scaled banana points
CompBanker's SB:MS ratio is insane. you would be hard-pressed to find anyone with a ratio like that, except for maybe MBAApply or HarvardGrad08.
WillHunting... I wont press you reveal the methodology, though I am a little curious about WHY you're not revealing them... care to divulge??
If you factored out the MS that was related to politics, religion and race there would be a number of people that would have much better looking ratios. Personally, I know that I nearly doubled my shit count from a single thread, at one point....I think I went from like 40 something to 80 or 90...and there were a couple threads like that, lol.
Anyways, I agree that Comp is a huge asset to the site. I know he has answered a dozen + PMs just from me and that's on top of the people that PM questions that I don't think I can accurately answer who I end up referring over to him.
Regards
hah, agreed! personally this rule has worked in reverse for me... i've racked up a ton of SBs from questionable shit including:
1) wishing people a "Happy Ramadan" 2) a drunken rant where i used the word "cunt" 20 times 3) talking about my favorite place to masturbate while at work
i'm serious....
To All,
To Give an Idea of Some of the Metrics I Used:
Net Silver Banana Total Post Count (Adjusted and Scaled of Course) Silver Banana's Per Post Net Silver Banana Per post Monkey Shit Per Post Total Monkey Shit
Not all of those were used and there were other more advanced and some easier ones that were also taken into account.
If you look at CompBanker's Silver Bananas and Monkey Shits along with his high post count you will see why he was near the top.
To address cph, you are correct in that the monkey shit is skewed because of politics and such so I tried to find a good scale in order to help out people like ANT. However, this would also decrease CompBanker's Monkey Shit and thus, still cause him to top the list in the other metrics.
Hope this clarified some things.
Congrats to Comp, definitely well deserved.
Will - I think you should release the all-time and L3M top 10 leaderboard every quarter. Question though, how did you scrape the data without access to the WSO's database?
You can view everyone's net banana points, net SB's and net monkey shit by viewing their profile.
The other metrics he used are calculations based off of that available information.
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