Words + Data By Pete Glover and Harrison Lisewski C/O 4Ply Magazine
You’ve seen the clips, now revel in a mountain of obscure statistical observations as provided by the numbers-obsessed nerds over at 4PLY Magazine in their full analysis of the 2022 #QSTOP10.
Just like they did for the 2021 countdowns (and the year before that), 4PLY has logged every skater, flip, grind, slam, line, replay, obstacle, spot, and source video into a giant dataset that was then analyzed from every conceivable angle.
Get to know all the stats, charts, and interactive visualizations over on 4plymag.com, where you’ll be savoring such tasty ponderables as:
1) Are there more 360 flips into or out of manuals?
2) How many switch hardflips were there, and was it more or less that normal hardflips?
3) How many tricks involved a hippie jump of some kind?
4) How many tricks happened on escalators?
5) What percentage of Jordan Trahan’s four appearances involved a clip with a no-comply trick?
6) What percentage of Tyshawn clips hit the #1 spot in the Countdown?
7) What percentage of Lucas Puig’s clips were shirtless?
8) Are clips sourced from Instagram up or down from the previous year?
9) How many times did Will Marshall 360 flip to backside noseslide?
10) How many different skaters were named “Jake?”
1) There was one occurrence of each.
2) Five switch hardflips, which was just one less than the six normal hardflips.
3) Four.
4) Three.
5) 75%
6) 85.7%
7) 100%
8) Down significantly.
9) Twice.
10) Six.