FOH’s Most-Favorite Marcas

[cmbarton]

Last month @Elpresidente posed the question, “Can you list your top 5 Marques in order of preference?”  

Because I earn a living in statistics, and because I’m a data analytics masochist, I spent a few hours today modeling the data in order to come to a scientific stack ranking that weighted each marque in proportion to the order in which the marque appeared in each Top 5 entry.  

Interesting storylines in the data are that Cohiba, which received the second-most #1 ratings, was in the 50-percentile of #4 and #5 ratings indicating a “Boom or Bust” affinity among FOH members.  Romeo y Juliet wins the “Always a Bridesmaid” award for its top 50-percentile ranking despite not receiving any #1 ratings.  Lastly, in @Hotboxx’s initial assessment of the frequency of marque appearance in the Top 5 entries, Ramon Allones appeared in the fourth-most percentage of entries but is the nineth-most popular marque when using a weighted approach; this is because Trinidad, Bolivar, and Montecristo are buoyed by higher ratings in the entries that listed those marques in their Top 5.

Here are the results:

1.  H. Upmann

2.  Partagas

3.  Cohiba

4.  Trinidad (tie)

4.  Bolivar (tie)

6.  Montecristo

7.  Ramon Allones

8.  Hoyo de Monterrey 

9.  Por Larrañaga 

10. Romeo y Julieta 

11. Juan Lopez 

12. Punch (tie)

12. Quai d’Orsay (tie)

14. San Cristobal de la Habana

15. Vegas Robaina 

16. La Gloria Cubana

17. Sancho Panza

18. Saint Luis Rey (tie)

18. Rafael González (tie)

20. Diplomatico

21. El Rey del Mundo 

[tigger]

I think think this is really cool (I'm more than a little nerdy though. ?).

Thanks for taking the time!

[Skypilot]

Love it. Great breakdown

[MD Puffer]

Granted there's just the one current production vitola for Diplo's- but to come in at #20?

C'mon, it's a damn good piramide!

[wineguy]

4 minutes ago, MD Puffer said:

Granted there's just the one current production vitola for Diplo's- but to come in at #20?

C'mon, it's a damn good piramide!

Love the Dip2s and by box count Monte is my number one... but I didn't respond to the original post...

[cmbarton]

1 hour ago, MD Puffer said:

Granted there's just the one current production vitola for Diplo's- but to come in at #20?

C'mon, it's a damn good piramide!

I was very surprised too!  If there were more vitolas, I think the Diplomatico would have shown up in more Top 5’s.

[NorCalAaron]

Cool stuff!  Thanks for sharing, I'm suprised JL edged out over Punch.

[shippers]

Awesome work - I didn't expect Upmann to top the list - although I can understand why they do!

[Stump89]

Thanks for putting this together, really good stuff. I wonder if the marcas in the bottom part of the list would be higher ranked if there were more options left in their portfolios.  Don't let Habanos see this list or poor ERDM will be up for deleting lol!

[irratebass]

What no Vegueros???? What an outrage! I demand a recount, I mean they are releasing a new size and everything 

[irratebass]

5 minutes ago, Stump89 said:

Thanks for putting this together, really good stuff. I wonder if the marcas in the bottom part of the list would be higher ranked if there were more options left in their portfolios.  Don't let Habanos see this list or poor ERDM will be up for deleting lol!

Please don't delete my beloved Choix's!!!! 

[99call]

Cheers mate, great to see it on one page. 

if dips had more standard catalogue, cant help put feel they'd be right up their in top 10

[Shelby07]

5 hours ago, shippers said:

...I didn't expect Upmann to top the list...

I did ?.

great list. Thanks for doing it. 

[Heatmiser]

ERDM Choix's are one of my favorites.  Shhh!

[Chucko8]

Thanks for taking the time and sharing this