Monsterbook Ranking Fun

Hey, just wanted to share this in case anyone found else found it funny / of interest. To practice web scraping and data sharing, I decided to analyze some stuff from the Legends rankings webpage. (My image processor ran into issues, but a shoutout to DrJason because he is high on the MB rankings and IS NOT WEARING A HAT TO CONFUSE MY POOR IMAGE PROCESSOR). Data are from roughly November 14th, 2018.

In terms of analytics, what's so funny is how there was only 1 bishop in the 1550+ MB Cards group, despite there being so many in the other two columns. Since MB cards give absolutely no in-game benefits after 1500, this 1550+ group collects out of personal interest (hard core collecting). Assuming that no one / very few people are crazy enough to make 2 or more characters and collect 1550+ cards, the data would seem to suggest that hardcore collectors have strong negative association with bishops (care more about levelling instead? or mules). Haha.

Also also, if anyone has experience with Tableau / Tableau alternatives and has some suggestions of how to otherwise visualize this data, give me a shout! Very new to Tableau and am not thrilled about certain elements being non-adjustable. I have some ideas of how to get my image processor to work despite evil cosmetic hats, but we'll see.


https://public.tableau.com/profile/kithara.koro#!/vizhome/ms-cosmetics-analysis_0/Dashboard1 (Full click-interactive version)

 

Haha, that's pretty intense. But what really cracks me up is that despite going for it with 4 different characters, still none of them are a bishop-type character
I think I would only have the energy to get to 1550+ once..



By the way, if anyone else wants to take a crack at image matching maple hairstyles, I can send you a link to my github where I got it to work for people with no hats (so satisfying when I got "Gentle Breeze / Slick Dean matched with 83%"). Any Python editor with line-by-line execution will do. Original idea of this whole thing was to see whether or not crazy collectors tend to have hairstyles / cosmetics from particular years or not (ex. kpoppy or not).