Recently, Editor-in-Chief Donnie Peters wrote an interesting article on titled, "Will the 2015 WSOP Main Event Field Size Increase or Decrease Over 2014?" In the article, Peters shares a side-by-side comparison of the World Series of Poker Main Event field size with the field sizes of the four other major poker tournaments: the main events of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, Aussie Millions, World Poker Tour, and the European Poker Tour.
While Peters presents a very intuitive explanation of these data and the conclusion that, based on these numbers, we might expect a downturn in the 2015 WSOP Main Event field size, I wanted to explore these data further with a formal analysis.