Quantifying Lard part two

The post analysing player choices at Steel Lard excited some discussion here and on a couple of social media platforms. This prompted me to revisit the analysis.

Rather than mess around comparing the popularity of each offering with the "average popularity" of games in each year, I've now just expressed each by what proportion of the first or second place choices it received each year. 

The choice of rule system table is pretty much unchanged (though I've lumped all of the Chain of Command variants into one:

System	Average Pref 1 or 2
GDA2	0.182
Pickett’s Charge	0.175
CoC (all variants)	0.163
Kiss Me Hardy/The Full Nelson	0.15
Sharp Practice	0.126
When the Last Sword is Drawn	0.091
Algernon Pulls It Off	0.091
Dux Britanniarum	0.091
What A Cowboy	0.084
What A Tanker	0.070
If the Lord Spares Us	0.045
Kriegspiel	0.045
O Group	0.036

Again, I'll not cover the relative popularity of individual game-runners (though I can reveal that your host has achieved solid mid-table mediocrity). 

Operating from memory of the games offered, I can reveal the following scores with respect to figure scale:

Scale	Average Pref 1 or 2
Naval Games	0.150
28mm	0.128
15mm	0.109
Aerial Games	0.091
10mm	0.070

That bigger toys are popular perhaps says something about the average age of the community?

And, probably somewhat arbitrarily, here's an attempt to quantify "scale of game" for the land-based games. 

Scale of Action	Average Pref 1 or 2
Large Skirmish	0.129
Battle	0.110
Small Skirmish	0.098
Strategic	0.045

Here I've used "Small Skirmish" to mean those maybe-a-dozen-aside games like What A Cowboy or When the Last Sword is Drawn, "Large Skirmish" for those fifty-odd aside games like Dux Brit, Sharp Practice or CoC, and "Battle" for larger actions. Oh and I treated the one Kriegspiel game as "Strategic".