Hi everyone,
I'm an undergrad student in Brazil working on a non-commercial academic project about competitive VGC. I'd like to use the monthly usage stats from smogon.com/stats (the "chaos" JSON files for VGC formats, all rating cutoffs) to study how usage shifts when regulations add or remove Pokémon, using time-series and causal-inference methods.
Only aggregate usage numbers would be used: no individual battles, no usernames, and no win rates as a strength measure. The code and report would be public on GitHub, with Smogon credited as the source.
A few quick questions:
1. Is this kind of academic use and publication of results OK?
2. May I include a small processed subset of the numbers in the repo, or should I only link to the originals?
3. Is there a preferred way to credit or cite the stats?
If there's a better place or person to ask, please point me there. Thanks a lot for maintaining these stats!
I'm an undergrad student in Brazil working on a non-commercial academic project about competitive VGC. I'd like to use the monthly usage stats from smogon.com/stats (the "chaos" JSON files for VGC formats, all rating cutoffs) to study how usage shifts when regulations add or remove Pokémon, using time-series and causal-inference methods.
Only aggregate usage numbers would be used: no individual battles, no usernames, and no win rates as a strength measure. The code and report would be public on GitHub, with Smogon credited as the source.
A few quick questions:
1. Is this kind of academic use and publication of results OK?
2. May I include a small processed subset of the numbers in the repo, or should I only link to the originals?
3. Is there a preferred way to credit or cite the stats?
If there's a better place or person to ask, please point me there. Thanks a lot for maintaining these stats!
