""You are not as powerful as your level. You are only as powerful as your stardust allows" Requested Study"

#PokemonGO: As we all know, with the vast amount of empty XP discussed in previous threads introduced with the raid concept, it is fairly easy for someone with a devoted group and money they're willing to part with to simply do a plethora of legendary raids and go from level 1 to level 35 in the short time span of as little as 3 months. Previously, this took nearly a year and a half for the average daily player.With the lack of stardust to power any Pokémon up, there is no purpose to being a higher level if you cannot create strong pokemon.Hypothesis:The study I am proposing is putting together some kind of formula to determine optimal effectiveness of a trainer in comparison to their max potential strength level based on the factors listed below. If we assume the most optimal, stardust gathering leveller to be the one that plays only by throwing straight balls at Pokémon to level up, as well as running 9 eggs at all times, as well as feeding all berries to Pokémon in gyms to be the max potential, we can then take the stardust gained from that individual and place it against the average stardust of a specific player at their respective trainer level, we can somehow come up with a percentage value that assumes their effectiveness in raid battles ASSUMING that they allocated their stardust effectively.Data:1) The amount of Pokémon they have captured. Each base Pokémon capture yields 100 stardust alongside the first catch of the day for 500, culminating in the 7th day streak for 3000 stardust. For a week, one can obtain 6,500 stardust simply by completing the streaks. Now if one were to capture evolutions of base Pokémon we know that you recieve 300/500 depending on the evolutionary stage of said Pokémon.Based on all of that, we can anticipate that with little effort, a trainer who plays everyday to catch only one pokemon recieves at least 957 stardust per week.By conventional standards, we can assume a person with 200 catches a week(factoring the small percentage(which we need a number for) of overall evolution catches as well) at first estimation(assuming roughly 120 stardust per catch outside of the first of the day) makes around 29,859 stardust weekly solely from catching Pokémon(23,160 before daily bonus is factored in). We would need to know the average amount of catches weekly made by a trainer in order to determine what the average yield of stardust by catching is.2) Eggs hatched. I'm assuming we know the egg distribution rates, and based on that we can somehow pull an average stardust yield across a large sample based on the 2k/5k/10k eggs as well as the variance of stardust recieved for hatching. If we can somehow come up with a number for the average stardust gain per hatch, we can then determine on average, how much stardust a person has recieved for their total egg hatches. This is the one that I lack any specific amount of stardust yield, as it requires further testing.Edit: Thanks to /u/zyxwgh , we have the average Stardust per hatch."Eggs yield the following stardust amounts:400-800 for 2km eggs (600 on average)800-1600 for 5km eggs (1200 on average)1600-3200 for 10km eggs (2400 on average)Egg distributions have changed a lot during the past months, but assuming the September pre-Equinox distribution we have:190/508 (37.4%) 2km eggs266/508 (52.4%) 5km eggs52/508 (10.2%) 10km eggsThat would make the average stardust for an egg 600 x 37.4% + 1200 x 52.4% + 2400 x 10.2% = 1098 stardust/hatch."Now we need to determine the average amount of hatches in general in a week by players to come up with a consistent stardust per week gain.3) Berries fed to Pokémon in gyms. This one is slightly easier given the fact that we only had one event in which we received 40 stardust for each berry. I would place the average stardust yield per berry fed somewhere around 21/22 for the average player.Conclusion:We all know your level can be misleading in the raid era of Pokémon go. But finding out exactly how misleading your level is compared to your max potential is the goal I hope we can attain.Steps to attain this goal:1) Get trainers to report how many catches per day they net. With a large enough sample size, we can determine how much stardust is actually gained weekly by players.2) Get the data from the drops of egg distribution and compare it to their average stardust yield to determine stardust per hatch.3) Find out how many berries the average player drops on gyms for stardust daily.Divide all accumulated stardust based on the average player against that of a stardust total of a player of equal level/XP gained who meets the guidelines mentioned at the beginning of this post to determine their "percentage" of effectiveness.Example case (me):Level 37 11,130, 264 total XPTotal caught: 18660. There's been 497 days since I started playing. I've caught 37.5 Pokémon daily for an average of 262 a week. If i take 37.5 and multiply it by 110 stardust(let's say) we get 4125 stardust gained daily by catching(without streaks). I would have to see when streaks started to determine when to start calculating them into the equation.Total Eggs Hatched: 502. At an average of 1098 per hatch(also excluding events) 551,196 total stardust from hatches. Divide that by 497 and you get 1109 stardust gain per day from egg hatches.Total Berries Fed: 2198. Take that and divide it by 148(days since berry feeding was a thing), and you're at 14.85 berries a day. Multiply 14.85 by 21 and you get 311 stardust gained per day from feeding.In total, this puts me at: 311 + 1109 + 4125+ 857(daily bonuses average across a week) stardust gain per day.6370 stardust total gained per day.Then I would need my XP totals of the day. Based on the level calculator, I am averaging 21200 XP per day.So in total, stardust represents 30% of my XP gain. Is that bad? Or is it good? I don't know. Id need you guys to compare percentages, but for a total of an average 3,450,376 total stardust gained. via /r/TheSilphRoad http://ift.tt/2zNlTdr