"Analysis on what Pokemon to keep if you plan to use them for mass-evolving."

#PokemonGO: TL;DR If you want to keep only the best but still enough Pokemon of each species for Lucky-egg-evolving, read this.Short introducing story:Whenever I am travelling to the city playing PokemonGo, I am catching all the Pidgeys etc. to mass-evolve them at home. But I never know when I have collected enough, so I end up keeping all those that seem 'not too bad' and fill up my storage with random Pokemon until it is full. I want to evolve only the best of each species, so I have the possibility to use them for prestiging, although most of them end up being transferred anyway. This week I decided that I want to calculate, which Pokemon I should keep and which I should throw away immediately to gain the best results. Of course I will share the results with you in this post.What I calculated:I searched for the CP value of each Pokemon, where only the amount of Pokemons-to-evolve lies above. To give a short example for better understanding: Every Pidgey you catch gives you 3 candy for catching and one for transferring. It needs 12 candy to be evolved, but gives back one for each evolution. So, on average, you need 11 candy for one Pidgey, which is equivalent to catching 2.75 exemplars of it. The value I calculated is the CP level, where on average one in 2.75 lies above. For Pokemon that need 25 candy, this CP level would be where every 6th Pokemon lies above.First, I wrote a script in Matlab which calculates all possible combinations of CP for a specific, given, 'mon. According to many posts I read around here in the last months, IVs as well as levels of wild Pokemon are uniformly distributed - each IV value between 0 and 16 and the level between 1 and the trainer level cut off at 30. So I wrote a small algorithm, that gives back the CP value over which you should keep the 'mon and under which you should transfer it when you are just using it for mass evolving - assuming that your catches are evenly distributed. I wrote the results in THIS spreadsheet. For those who are interested, the average CP of the wild Pokemon are listed too. I calculated the values for every 1st stage Pokemon to have a complete list.Examples:To have the right amount of Pidgeys to evolve, on average you should keep every catch with a CP value of at least 301. For Weedles, this value would be 198 and for Rattata 374. You can read the full list for every unevolved Pokemonin the link above.Remarks:The information provided in this post is just useful if you are at least at trainer level 30, where the level of wild spawns is capped.The calculated values are just averages, so you can see them more as guidelines.The CP were calculated with the formula found on gamepress with the current base stats I had already saved last month.Useless information because I like numbers: each species of Pokemon has exactly 122.880 different combinations of levels and IVs to choose when spawning.I guess nobody goes out and catches Pokemon like Dratini and Grimer for mass evolving them. I added them to the list anyway so it is complete and can be used for other purposes if needed.Edits: minor text fixes and a bit of formatting. via /r/TheSilphRoad http://ift.tt/2jhwBQq