Zipf's Law and Your Commission

[DaftDog]

What's the bet that eighty percent of your total commission is from just twenty percent of your players.

If you have an attention span just a wee bit longer than a goldfish you may enjoy the following YouTube video.

https://youtu.be/fCn8zs912OE

[DanHorvat]

It's actually called the Pareto principle, and I don't even know what Zipf is.

Watched 13 seconds of the video.

[DaftDog]

It's actually called the Pareto principle, and I don't even know what Zipf is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf's_law

[JackTenSuited]

A few months last year I had 95% of my commission from 1 player. Unfortunately negative carryover happened.

[DanHorvat]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf's_law

I thought this hipster was making stuff up. He's so annoying.

Interesting stuff, now I know the Pareto principle (or the 80/20 rule) exists because of Zipf's law of distribution.

[Aidan90]

I was familiar with the Pareto Principle but had never heard of Zipf's law.

I've just spent my afternoon reading about it and jumping from wikipedia article to wikipedia article.

Just finished reading about Hapax Legomenon - damn my curious mind!