Snupin Santa stats

[swissmarg]

Snupin Santa over on lupin_snape posted their master list a week ago (wow, I'm behind!), but I sort of got distracted. :p Nevertheless, it's been burning a hole in my hard drive, begging to have its statistics done, and now here they are!

Fest community: lupin_snape 
Fest type: Anonymous exchange
Premise: Lupin/Snape
Ratings restrictions: None
Length restrictions: Minimum 1,500 words, no maximum
Creation period: about 2 months (2 weeks longer for veterans)

There were 48 gifts created:

- 33 fics
- 14 artworks (including sets of icons)
- 1 fanmix

Ratio of art to fic: 42%

By rating:

ART
G - 5
PG - 3
PG-13 - 1
R - 2
NC-17 - 3

MIX
R - 1

FIC
G - 0
PG - 4
PG-13 - 7
R - 6
NC-17 - 16

By word count:
The shortest fic was 1,705 words long. The longest fic was 49,103 words long.

1-2K - II
2-3K - IIIII-I
3-4K - II
4-5K - 0
5-6K - III
6-7K - I
7-8K - II
8-9K - I
9-10K - I
10-11K - II
11-12K - 0
12-13K - I
13-14K - III
14-15K - II
15-20K - I
20-25K - I
25-30K - III
30-35K - 0
35-40K - 0
45-50K - II

Total words written: 400,928
Mean (average fic length): 12,149
Median (half the fics longer, half the fics shorter): 7,500
Mode (most frequent word count): 2-3K

Some thoughts: This fest had a lot in common with the recent hd_holidays exchange, although it was only about half as big (in terms of both number of participants and total words written). See my statistics for the H/D exchange for reference. Still, it was a very popular fest, showing that Lupin/Snape is still strong in the fandom.

There was a very high percentage of art in this exchange, and -- always fun -- a mix as well. The art, as usual, was generally lower rated than the fics. Only 36% of the art was rated R or higher, compared to 67% of the fics. There were no G-rated fics at all, while G was the most frequent rating for the art, with 36%. This is very similar to hd_holidays, where there were also no G-rated fics, and the majority of the fics (but not the art) was rated R or higher. Thus, I would draw the same conclusion for this fest, which is that the physical side of the relationship is very important to the Snape/Lupin ship. However, it is certainly not the only attraction, as is evinced by the large number of long fics. (Again, similar to the case with the aforementioned H/D exchange).

Here, hardly any authors stuck to the lowest possible word count (1,500), although the largest number of fics was in the next length category, at 2-3K. Still, 3/4 of the authors wrote at least twice as many words as required, and 6 (nearly 1/5, again similar to the H/D exchange) went over Big Bang length (20K). As long as I'm making comparisions, though, I'd like to point out that the creation period for this exchange was only 2 months, whereas for hd_holidays it was 3 months. So the fact that the average fic length is nearly the same (12K as opposed to 13K), and that the longest fic for this exchange (49K) in fact surpassed the length of the longest fic in the H/D exchange (41K), is even more amazing.

Comments

[lore]

WHOA. What interesting statistics, especially the comparison to the H/D fest. It seemed to me that there were quite a few longer fics this year than last year, and seeing them tallied is very helpful.

Thank you SO MUCH for doing this - I am a total statistics nerd! I am going to post about this in my next mod post, although you are welcome to beat me to the punch by posting to the community yourself - you would probably get more comments that way, and you totally deserve them for the hard work. I will make sure others see this, though, if you have your reasons for not posting.

*HUGS* Thank you so much! What a fun, wonderful surprise! ♥

love, lore

[swissmarg]

Thank you, glad to find another aficionado. :)

The reason I only post in the comments and not to the comm as a whole is that I want to leave it up to the mods whether to make a community post. Sometimes the mods do their own statistics for fests, and I don't want to steal anyone's thunder.

But I'd be flattered of course if you wanted to link to this in a regular community post. ;)

[azure-rosa.livejournal.com]

Very interesting! I did wonder at the general stats for SnuSa but I hadn't done any tallying myself. Neat to see the distribution of lengths and ratings!

[swissmarg]

Cool, glad you enjoyed them. :)

[kittylefish.livejournal.com]

very interesting. thanks for taking the time to compile the stats.

[swissmarg]

You're welcome, glad you liked it.

[busaikko]

This is so awesome! Thank you for putting this together!

[swissmarg]

You're welcome. :)

[shadowycat.livejournal.com]

What a lot of work you did to figure this out! It's very interesting to see it presented this way. :D I have one question, though. Several artists submitted more than one piece of art as part of their gift. When you counted up the art, is your number the total number of submitted individual pieces or total number of art gifts?

Thanks for breaking things down this way. It's always fun to see stats like this! :D

[swissmarg]

Um, gifts, I think. As they appeared on the master list on the comm. So, yes, you're right that some artists created icons sets with multiple individual pieces, but that was counted as one gift = 1 art.

[ureima.livejournal.com]

Cool! Go Snupin! Go Snupin Santa!