Talk:Drop rate/Wintersday Gift

Looking at the percentages from 2006 and 2008 (years for which we have most data), it's pretty obvious that the drop rates don't change year-to-year. Why do we still split this table by year? &mdash;Dr Ishmael 03:11, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Habit? Other than perhaps to answer the question of whether the rate changes from year to year (and I think it's answered) the only other thing it does is let put the data into obvious groups.  I'm fine if we merge it into a single table, or if we just tack on a summary table at the top that combines the years.  Yamagawa 04:46, 17 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Alright then, but it seems very unlikely that they would ever change the drop rates after leaving them untouched for 5 years. An overall totals section makes more sense, and would be a lot more useful to readers, than individual yearly totals.  Perhaps total the current year by itself if you just want to verify that the drop rates haven't changed.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael Diablo_the_chicken.gif 13:44, 17 December 2010 (UTC)


 * I've combined the previous years. I wasn't too sure how to insert the current years totals into the previous years list without also introducing confusion over which numbers came from where, etc.  As is, an extra 1-5000 drops won't improve the bounds significantly, so excluding this years from the grand totals doesn't lose us much.  I did find one of the old rows was off by one on the totals, and set it aside, but I have little hope it can be corrected at this late date.  Looking at this-years data so far, the Snowman summoners lower bound is over the estimated 15%... (type 2 error?).  If someone wants to clean up the tables to get a grand total going, go for it (perhaps a row at the top of the page?  People will come here either to look at the grand total, or to add their own at the bottom)  As is, I think the issue of drop rates has been settled to a fair-thee-well, and if nothing happens to the table I'll just merge old and current data sometime next year.  Yamagawa 10:00, 19 December 2010 (UTC)