Red Mosquito

So, I've been entertaining myself while looking after my daughter at odd hours by collating all the March Madness data, including vote tallies.

Notes:

• * There are no vote tallies for 2004, but 2005 lists the seeds. For this post, I just ignored 2004 rather than populate vote tallies.
  * 2018 was a series of survivor mini tournaments before the championship elimination tournament. I just assigned the average vote of each song overall to the results in 2018, though it could probably be fine-tuned to take into account how early they were voted out and what percentage of the elimination vote they received.
  * 2006 and 2007 were run through TSIS, and got a LOT more votes. I've separated these out to give the "RM-only" list.

RM's Top 50 Pearl Jam songs

As determined by the results of all March Madness tournaments except 2004, 2006 and 2007
Corduroy has an average of 156 votes per tournament across all its appearances, making 6 finals.
Mind Your Manners has an average of 66 votes per tournament across all its appearances.

1. Corduroy
2. Immortality
3. In My Tree
4. Last Exit
5. Rearviewmirror
6. Hail, Hail
7. Release
8. Black
9. Do The Evolution
10. Go
11. Dance Of The Clairvoyants
12. Insignificance
13. Brain Of J.
14. Faithfull
15. Alive
16. Sad
17. Tremor Christ
18. Porch
19. Long Road
20. Not For You
21. I Got Shit
22. Given To Fly
23. In Hiding
24. Sleight Of Hand
25. Animal
26. Take The Long Way
27. All Those Yesterdays
28. Pendulum
29. State Of Love And Trust
30. Off He Goes
31. Grievance
32. Smile
33. Nothing As It Seems
34. Daughter
35. Indifference
36. Hard To Imagine
37. Severed Hand
38. Parting Ways
39. Comes Then Goes
40. No Way
41. Present Tense
42. Red Mosquito
43. Light Years
44. Life Wasted
45. Rival
46. Yellow Ledbetter
47. Nothingman
48. Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
49. Unthought Known
50. Mind Your Manners

Now, if we add 2006 and 2007 back in

The top 10 looks like this:
Black has an average per-tournament vote tally of 503, which shows how heavily skewed to 2006/2007 these results are.

1. Black
2. Corduroy
3. Release
4. Rearviewmirror
5. Porch
6. Do The Evolution
7. Immortality
8. Alive
9. In My Tree
10. State Of Love And Trust

And rounding out the top 50:

Spoiler: show

Animal
Even Flow
Given To Fly
Smile
Hail, Hail
I Got Shit
Indifference
In Hiding
Present Tense
Off He Goes
Not For You
Sad
Faithfull
Last Exit
Go
Long Road
Tremor Christ
Grievance
Brain Of J.
Insignificance
Yellow Ledbetter
Nothingman
Hard To Imagine
Red Mosquito
All Those Yesterdays
Light Years
Breath
Sleight Of Hand
Once
Daughter
Footsteps
Low Light
Dance Of The Clairvoyants
Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
Fatal
Save You
Life Wasted
Severed Hand
Jeremy
Parting Ways

But RM's tastes have definitely changed over the years, so here's how it looks for the past 5 tournaments:

Past 5 tournaments only
Last Exit has amassed an average of 205 votes per tournament, with Hail, Hail managing 175.

1. Last Exit
2. Hail, Hail
3. In My Tree
4. Go
5. Corduroy
6. Brain Of J.
7. Dance Of The Clairvoyants
8. Rearviewmirror
9. Sleight Of Hand
10. Immortality

And the rest of the top 50:

Spoiler: show

Faithfull
Animal
Do The Evolution
Release
Take The Long Way
Porch
Insignificance
Long Road
Not For You
Sad
Black
Tremor Christ
No Way
In Hiding
Alive
Comes Then Goes
Red Mosquito
All Those Yesterdays
I Got Shit
Hard To Imagine
Daughter
Smile
You Are
Off He Goes
Nothing As It Seems
Grievance
Cropduster
Rival
7 O'Clock
Nothingman
Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
Oceans
Who Ever Said
State Of Love And Trust
Pendulum
Jeremy
Rats
Unemployable
Can'T Keep
Strangest Tribe

This may be the most on-the-spectrum thing I've ever done.

I can't believe Mind Your Manners made the top 50

JuanHamm wrote:I can't believe Mind Your Manners made the top 50

A few of the newer songs benefit from a couple of years of strong performances followed by a decline as people change their mind over the years.

Not sure how to control for that effect though.

I am not understanding how Take The Long Way ended up so high but no Who Ever Said or Quick Escape, which appear to be much more appreciated Gigaton tracks.

lol at MYM in the top 50

ABNorman wrote:This may be the most on-the-spectrum thing I've ever done.

Holy shit, and I thought this was bad:

http://forums.theskyiscrape.com/viewtop ... =Strongest

In My Tree at number three? Damn. That’s insane.

Bammer wrote:

ABNorman wrote:This may be the most on-the-spectrum thing I've ever done.

Holy shit, and I thought this was bad:

http://forums.theskyiscrape.com/viewtop ... =Strongest

Actually that is still pretty bad

wease wrote:In My Tree at number three? Damn. That’s insane.

No Code is criminally underrated on RM.

RockPusher wrote:I am not understanding how Take The Long Way ended up so high but no Who Ever Said or Quick Escape, which appear to be much more appreciated Gigaton tracks.

Quick Escape was knocked out in the second round by Not For You.

Take the Long Way had a bit of a cruise: Infallible, Whale Song, Comatose, then knocked out by Corduroy.

Once they've got a few more tournaments under their belts, I expect TtLW to drop down.

Anders wrote:

wease wrote:In My Tree at number three? Damn. That’s insane.

No Code is criminally underrated on RM.

I think you misinterpreted my comment.

wease wrote:

Anders wrote:

wease wrote:In My Tree at number three? Damn. That’s insane.

No Code is criminally underrated on RM.

I think you misinterpreted my comment.

No, I understand you’re not a fan, but I couldn’t disagree more.

ABNorman wrote:This may be the most on-the-spectrum thing I've ever done.

You did a good job with this. Two thumbs up from me.

Anders wrote:

wease wrote:

Anders wrote:

wease wrote:In My Tree at number three? Damn. That’s insane.

No Code is criminally underrated on RM.

I think you misinterpreted my comment.

No, I understand you’re not a fan, but I couldn’t disagree more.

I like the song ok. It’s just not a favorite. I’m not like ruddo with it.

The idiots here on the board have much better taste than the normies who voted on the front page.

fuuuuck i love this

wease wrote:In My Tree at number three? Damn. That’s insane.

I know! How it's not #1 is beyond me

Look at Dance in the top 15 already. And it's only appeared in one of these so far.

ABNorman wrote:This may be the most on-the-spectrum thing I've ever done.

I think this is awesome. I want all the RMMM stats I can get!