Snarry Swap 2011 Statistics

[swissmarg]

snape_potter has posted the Master List from their 2011 Snarry Swap, and I've whipped up some quick statistics:

Fest community: snape_potter 
Fest type: Anonymous exchange
Premise: Snape/Harry
Ratings restrictions: R or NC-17 only
Length restrictions: At least 1,000 words, no maximum
Creation period: Three and a half months

There were exactly 50 gifts in this exchange, which included 37 fics and 15 artworks (1 gift had both fic and art).

Ratio of art to fic: 41%

By rating:

Fic
R - 8
NC-17 - 29

Art
R - 12
NC-17 - 3

By word count:
The shortest fic was 1,218 words long. The longest fic was 42,700 words long.

1-2K - 3
2-3K - 12
3-4K - 2
4-5K - 2
5-6K - 1
6-7K - 0
7-8K - 5
8-9K - 0
9-10K - 2
10-15K - 4
15-20K - 2
20-30K - 1
30-40K - 1
40-50K - 1

Total words written: 290,279 words
Mean (average fic length): 7,845 words
Median (half the fics longer, half the fics shorter): 3,150 words
Mode (most frequent fic length): 2-3K

Some thoughts: There was a very high percentage of art in this exchange, which is always great to see. The art was, however, slightly more tame than the fics in terms of ratings, with only 20% of the art rated NC-17, but 78% of the fics. However, as all the rest was rated R, there wasn't a huge difference.

The word counts varied greatly, which is really shown by looking at the difference between the mean (7845) and the median (3150). This means that there was a large number of short fics, but also a few very, very long fics that pulled the average up by more than double. Also interesting is the fact that nearly a third of the fics were in the range of 2,000-3,000 words, more than twice as many fics as any other length.

Snarry usually draws some very dedicated fans who produce large-scale fanworks, and this exchange was no exception, with three fics in the Big Bang (over 20,000 words) range.