Dude Perfect Battles Stats

Context

Dude Perfect (DP) is one of the most recognized content creator groups on YouTube, popularized mainly by their trick shot videos. Within the last couple of years, they have started producing a significant number of 'Battle' videos, where the five main DP members (Tyler, Garrett, Cody, Cory, and Coby), along with the occasional special guest, compete against each other in a series of sport-related challenges. While the challenges and the style of each of the Battles is different each time, each challenge will have a winner (or winners, as will be addressed later), and will have a 'podium', that is, others who finish within the top 2 or top 3 of the competition.

There are two types of Battles, which we will refer to as Solo and Team Battles . Solo Battles are those where the DP members compete against each other individually, while Team Battles are those where DP members are in separate teams and the winner includes all members from the winning team. In this dataset, only Solo Battles are considered.

Content

This dataset records who wins and who places on the podium in each challenge, as well as overall statistics about the performance of each DP member historically in Battles.

As the style of each Battle is not consistent, there are some Battles which have a format that necessitates a difference in how the standings are recorded in this dataset. These situations are as follows:

• For each Battle, there is either a distinct 'podium' which consist of the members who make it to the 'Finals', or there is a objective measurement of who places first, second, and third, such as the number of points that each member obtains or the time in which they complete a race. These two methods are used to designate most of the standings.
• For some Battles , there are only two members in the 'Finals'. In this case, there is not a member recorded in third place.
• In some Battles , such as the Blindfolded Archery Battle, there is not a clear and objective way to decide the second and third place, due to how the 'Finals' for that particular Battle are structured. Thus, the players that would be in second and third are both given second place in that Battle.
• For the Drone Hunting Battle, there was not one but two winners. In this case, both winners were given first place.
• For some Battles, such as the Go Kart Battle, either the first, second or third place member is not one of the main 5 DP members. In this case, this spot is not claimed. For example, in Go Kart Battle Panda won, Cody finished second, and Cory finished third. In this case, Cody and Cory would keep second and third, and no one would claim first place.

It should be noted that while there is a Battle with two winners (Drone Hunting Battle) and a Battle with a winner who is not one of the main 5 DP members (Go Kart Battle), these are the only two Battles of their kind. Thus, out of the 60 Solo Battles, there are still 60 winners out of the main 5 DP members.

Sources

All data is sourced from Dude Perfect's YouTube channel.