Thank you for pointing me to that. What is interesting to note is that recently all major evaluated pools ran into bad luck. Looking back around one year, we see how bad luck and good luck pools were par - which is what one would expect. Today, all of the pools are significantly unlucky (over 1.2). How probable it can be that a set of pools worth 50PH are unlucky - individually and as a set? Variance aside, there has been a monotonic down-trend in the luck over the past year - unless I knew better I'd suspect either a systematic error in how the statistics are collected or something very fishy is going on. I'll try to get some feedback on that from organofcorti before starting conspiracy.


Thanks man (or should I say: bash-guru ),

that was exactly what I was looking for. Kudos for instead of asking for CSV data, extract it from the website (small fix: your command for the last 3000 has a typo).

Your results show exactly what I suspected my feelings are cheating me: while the all-time average seems ok, the luck is monotonically getting worse. Compare any series of the last N blocks to the previous one to see what I mean. Must be missing something...