Hmm, the 6-minute tourney life figure is based on my iPoker sample, on slower software but with 2-minute blind levels. The latter factor leads to shorter maximum duration of a game, but the former factor leads to later bustouts in 3rd because fewer hands are played per minute. They should pretty much even out imo.
I have only 33 games at Stars + FTP so far, with the average tourney life being also 6 minutes.
Let me instruct you on how to look it up for yourself in PT4 (the problem with the built-in 'Real Hours Tournament' stat is that it accounts for multitabling, e.g. if you play at 2 tables at once for 6 minutes each, it will show 0.10 hours = 6 minutes in the summary, not 0.20 hours = 12 minutes; so things will get messy as you play at different numbers of tables at different times).
Tutorial on measuring the average tournament life in PT4
1. Go to Configure -> Statistics and find a tournament
player stat 'Real Hours Tournament'.
2. Duplicate it (the resulting stat will be named 'Real Hours Tournament (Copy)' but you can rename it).
3. Go to the 'Description' tab and replace the summary type 'Expression' by 'Same as Format'.
4. Click 'Save' and 'OK'.
5. In the 'Results' tab of 'View Stats', right-click 'Configure' inside the report and include your new stat into it.
6. When the report reappears, look at the aggregate number of hours displayed in the summary line of your new stat, multiply it by 60 and divide by the number of tourneys to get the average tourney life in minutes.
I'm looking forward to seeing your Spin & Go tourney life figures.
Last edited by coon74; 10-03-2014 at 01:41 AM.