Scientifically verify the problem "Who is the fastest character in Mario Kart 8?" What is the answer?

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Nintendo's popular game ·Mario KartIs a racing game with popular characters appearing in the Mario series such as Mario and Luigi. Because each character of Mario Kart has a difference in detailed status such as weight and speed, "Any character is fast?" Anyone who has ever played Mario Kart should have thought. Data Scientist'sHenry HinnefeldUses statistical science methods to "Mario Kart 8Who is the best character in the world "?

The best Mario Kart character according to data science
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Hinnefeld, who was playing Mario Kart since he was a child, evaluated the weight, speed, acceleration power, handling and driving ability of each character and summarized in the table below. Baby Mario, the lightest weight among the characters, is inferior in speed but has the best acceleration, handling and driving power. On the other hand, although the heaviest wario has speed, acceleration power is the lowest, and handling and traction are low numerical values.


Also, in Mario Kart 8, you can select carts and tires besides characters, but the performance is different for carts and tires as well. The figure below is a summary of Hinnefeld's assessment of carts and tires by weight, speed, acceleration power, handling, driving force. The larger the number means the better its performance.


And, Hinnefeld uses a combination of character carts and tires to evaluate which one is the best combination, "Pareto efficiencyI decided to apply the idea of. Pareto Efficiency is an Italian economist at the beginning of the 20th centuryWilfredo paradeThe idea advocated by the idea advocated by the idea that a certain finite resource is to be considered "Pareto optimal" when it is "the satisfaction of the other is sacrificed if raising one's satisfaction". Hinnefeld applied the concept of Pareto efficiency and investigated which combination is the best.


There are a maximum of 147,960 combinations of character, cart, and tire, but if you divide it by its performance, there are 294 styles in total. In the graph below, the blue circle on the green dotted line is a Pareto optimal combination, there are only 15 out of 294 styles. According to Hinnefeld, this combination of Pareto optimal character cart tires seems to be the most efficient and optimal combination.


The table below summarizes only those combinations. There are only 15 kinds of combination which becomes Pareto optimum, among themWarioThere are 8 combinations with drivers and more than half. Also, when paying attention to carts,BiddybuggyThere are seven combinations including (Patatenten).


More than half of the most efficient combinations in the game result from Wario, Hinnefeld argues that the best driver in Mario Kart is Wario and the best cart is Patatenten. In addition, Hinnefeld says that there is no combination which is optimal for Pareto on Metal Mario and Pink Gold Peach, it is strongly popular from some fansBeat DamonHas been included in most of the worst combination efficiently Pareto.

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The source of the program used by Hinnefeld this time isGitHubIt is published in.