People Places and Things

I'm considering an alternative category for the next Fantasy Wikipedia (if there ever is one). Instead of the three that were used, I'm considering People, Places, and Things. Here are the strict definitions:

Person (a living person; e.g., Ruth Bader Ginsburg or Kim Jong-Un)
Place (a named place on Earth you can visit; e.g., Wichita or Lake Michigan, but not the Moon).
Thing (anything not above, including dead people or groups of people such as Michael Jackson or Koch Industries (corporations are not people))

Most of the articles in Fantasy Wikipedia 2015 were Things. Here is a summary of how these articles performed, by category:

Person: This was the category with the highest points, by far. The players expected this during the draft. 77% of "Person" articles were drafted compared to 33% of Places and 39% of Things.

Place: The least popular category, with only 33% drafted, but with higher average points than Things.

Thing: The lowest scoring category, but since there are so many, and their variance (standard deviation) was higher than Places, they were more popular, with 39% drafted.

Here is how the teams did against the "undrafted" articles:

Pretty reasonable; the teams did a slightly worse job in the "Thing" category, though, where there was the lowest performance. I checked on this to see if perhaps there was a reason that teams had to select the lower scoring "Thing" articles. Most likely, it's because they are consolidated in the "Business, Science, & Technology" category, where each team had to have at least two articles:

It makes sense that "Place" articles would be exclusively in the "Geography, Politics, Religion, and History." The only "Place" in Business, Science, & Technology is Silicon Valley, which was one of the best articles in Business, Science, & Technology. The two "People" in Business, Science, & Technology are Stephen Hawking and Bill Gates, one of which scored perfect due to his association with the Oscars, and the other which was -5 points. This goes with the theme above that there is high variance among "People" articles.

Next time, even if I don't use these categories, I will make sure to control for person/place/thing as well as the categories above. E.g., rather than having Apple, Inc. and Facebook, I could have used Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg.

For the record, here are the counts of articles by team:

2nd place Hot Chicks & Jesus strongly favored People, while 50 shades of Wiki and The Google, The Veto, and the Mr. Mom all had over-representation on Places. Both 1st place Farticles and 8th place Wiki Wiki What?! had a high number of "thing" articles.

Here is average article performance by person/place/thing and team: