Cycle-104-Charts-n-Stuff
Official data isn't out yet, so here are the numbers from very late in the cycle (they will be far more accurate then the official numbers) for the expansion and opposition merits.
The above chart shows the massive imbalance thats still in PP, even with the reduced player numbers.
Mahon (whos ranked first nearly every week) won another profitable expansion with not even enough opposition to get the to 100% mark.
All of the other 10 powers are still scared to challenge Mahon in any way.
Delaine had a level of opposition to his expansions that I'm sure will push the weekly total number of merits much higher than usual.
I'm still convinced that all the opposition to Delaine is just an FDev data entry clerk who last week accidentally typed in an extra 0 in the database for Delaines opposition numbers.
Either that or some exploit that only works with combat expansions, and doesn't work with undermining.
When the official numbers are released I'll post the usual charts.
*EDIT
Data for cycle 105 is out now.
Known Merits
Aisling did the most total merits again, but Winters moved up to 2nd, followed closely by Hudson then ALD.
On the effective merits chart, Winters did the most merits, although some of them are in expansions that didn't go through (even with my more up to date data) so Hudson probably did the most amount of effective merits.
ALD and Aisling did their usual high amount as well.
There is a large drop to the second tier of powers, with Patreus moving way up to 5th most effective number of merits.
Unknown Merits
On the total number of merits chart, Delaine moved back up to close to 1 million merits in total opposition and undermining.
Winters is a large way back in second place, with undermining on everyone down by a very large amount.
The effective merits chart shows Patreus in first place, with 100,000 merits in undermined systems.
Aisling, Sirius, Antal and Torval had 0 systems undermined.
Official data isn't out yet, so here are the numbers from very late in the cycle (they will be far more accurate then the official numbers) for the expansion and opposition merits.

The above chart shows the massive imbalance thats still in PP, even with the reduced player numbers.
Mahon (whos ranked first nearly every week) won another profitable expansion with not even enough opposition to get the to 100% mark.
All of the other 10 powers are still scared to challenge Mahon in any way.
Delaine had a level of opposition to his expansions that I'm sure will push the weekly total number of merits much higher than usual.
I'm still convinced that all the opposition to Delaine is just an FDev data entry clerk who last week accidentally typed in an extra 0 in the database for Delaines opposition numbers.
Either that or some exploit that only works with combat expansions, and doesn't work with undermining.
When the official numbers are released I'll post the usual charts.
*EDIT
Data for cycle 105 is out now.
Known Merits

Aisling did the most total merits again, but Winters moved up to 2nd, followed closely by Hudson then ALD.
On the effective merits chart, Winters did the most merits, although some of them are in expansions that didn't go through (even with my more up to date data) so Hudson probably did the most amount of effective merits.
ALD and Aisling did their usual high amount as well.
There is a large drop to the second tier of powers, with Patreus moving way up to 5th most effective number of merits.
Unknown Merits

On the total number of merits chart, Delaine moved back up to close to 1 million merits in total opposition and undermining.
Winters is a large way back in second place, with undermining on everyone down by a very large amount.
The effective merits chart shows Patreus in first place, with 100,000 merits in undermined systems.
Aisling, Sirius, Antal and Torval had 0 systems undermined.
Last edited: