I've been doing some number crunching and in short, my estimation is somewhere between 2728 and 4019 players.

Here are the calculations, if you're interested!

That seems like so many and so few all at the same time

Wooooooow. o.o

oh my

homopathic: Yep, it's a big margin because I took a small sample of games when counting number of players. If anyone would like to do a more thorough count, please let me know!

That would allow me to do a more accurate calculation.

there are also a lot of people who only play PSLs or on memes and not games

so there is always going to be a margin

reineke: The survey data tells us that 25% of respondents don't play in any games, so we can make a reasonably accurate estimation based on that.

My caveat there is that people who don't play in games might have been less likely to respond to the survey, since it was very much game focused.

yeeeah, that

just personally I have already come across several people who missed the survey completely

reineke: Which is not at all surprising if these numbers are correct, since it means that less than half the DWRP population completed the survey.

yep! it makes sense, but hence, always gonna be a big margin

The error margin of the survey itself is 2-3%. The population estimate has a big margin mainly because of the small player count sample size (18 out of 55 games).