IFPA Player Age Data

Posted By Josh Sharpe, on December 03, 2023

We were recently requested to pull the age data on the IFPA player base over time and found that information interesting enough to share.

The question being . . . is competitive pinball successfully finding that next generation of players?

We ran these numbers based on IFPA Player ID number. These numbers are assigned after a player participates in their first IFPA sanctioned event. It will be interesting to follow this statistic for the years to come. For those that haven’t updated their IFPA profile to include their age, you can do that at your convenience HERE.

ID NUMBER AGE
1-9,999 49.2
10,000-19,999 45.8
20,000-29,999 43.9
30,000-39,999 43.3
40,000-49,999 42.4
50,000-59,999 41.6
60,000-69,999 41.2
70,000-79,999 41.1
80,000-89,999 39.4
90,000-99,999 38.7
100,000-109,999 38.4
110,000-119,999 38.2
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2 responses to “IFPA Player Age Data”

  1. Paul Garner Paul Garner says:
    December 5, 2023 at 5:17 am

    This is the players current age? We need the age of the Id number range to normalise the data, otherwise it just shows that ‘people get older over time’ 😀

  2. Josh Sharpe Josh Sharpe says:
    December 8, 2023 at 7:56 am

    Here’s a breakdown of the average age of the player when they started playing.

    Started playing in 2011 33.3
    Started playing in 2012 34
    Started playing in 2013 34.6
    Started playing in 2014 34
    Started playing in 2015 34.3
    Started playing in 2016 34.9
    Started playing in 2017 34.8
    Started playing in 2018 34.2
    Started playing in 2019 36.3
    Started playing in 2020 36.6
    Started playing in 2021 35.1
    Started playing in 2022 36.9
    Started playing in 2023 36.9

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