THE LOST ANALYSIS
Cast List
Here's your Lost cast in rough order of popularity. Know them. Love them.
- Ben (+21)
- Kate (+19)
- Michael (+15)
- Sayid (+15)
- Desmond (+10)
- Charlie (+9)
- Locke (+9)
- Eko (+9)
- Claire (+9)
- Sun (+2)
- Hurley (+2)
- Jack (+2)
- Ana Lucia
- Boone
- Ethan
- Jin
- The Monster
- Shannon
- Walt
- Juliet (-1)
- Sawyer (-13)
What's the number in brackets? It's the average impact a character has on the popularity of any given episode. Characters without a number in brackets haven't had their impact calculated yet.
For nerds interested in the details. A transcript of each episode is taken. Each character's share of a particular episode is calculated in terms of the amount of dialogue spoken. If 30% of the total dialogue in an episode is spoken by Ben, say, then he has 30% of that episode. Then the episode score (out of 10) from TV.com is taken. A linear regression is then calculated to determine how much each character impacts on the score. The number in brackets is how many points are added to (or subtracted from) the episode score per every 0.1% of dialogue time. For each episode I also calculate a correlation between dialogue time and overall score for the past five episodes, to determine which character has had the biggest positive impact on the show recently, which character has had the biggest negative impact and which character is least impacting the show. To qualify, a character needs to have had at least 2% of dialogue time on average over the five episodes in question. Figures above are calculated from Episode 216 to Episode 414, and are updated as I add more data.
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