The Le of D20 game supplement publisher, The Le Games, saw comments from Steven Olsen on organized play events (see 'Steven Olsen of A Little Shop of Comics on CCG Pre-Releases') and thinks the math should be checked:

In a previous article, Steven Olsen wrote:

'For the Future Sight pre-release (run by a local PTO): On Saturday, 4/21/07, they had 326 players. Two weeks later 14 venues held the Future Sight release event that had 211 players attend.

Now we fast forward to Magic Game Day:

21 venues had 560 players, let me repeat that 560 players. That is a 72% increase over the PTO's Future Sight pre-release That is a 165% increase over the store's Future Sight release event.'

These numbers make no sense.

Breaking down the numbers, the Future Site pre-release generated 326 players for one store, and in the release event those other 14 venues averaged 15 people per venue. If you include pre-release numbers, that's 537 players total (spread across 15 stores, that comes to 36 people per store).

In the latter Game Day example, those 21 venues averaged 26 people per venue.

The math makes no sense --- in true apples-to-apples math, this is not a 72% increase per store, nor is it a 165% increase per store.  

I think the author should check his math.

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