What this is
How many years Game Freak and Creatures published their annual balance-sheet notice when no merger forced one: none in 15 company-years that the gazette indexes fully cover, the years to March 2018 through March 2025.
How it’s built
- Two searchable indexes of the official gazette were checked for each company and year.
- A year counts only if the whole period in which its notice would run is inside an index; the latest year, to March 2026, is only partly covered, and 2016 and 2017 are not covered at all.
What we assumed
- The indexes would have caught a notice if one ran.Both indexes found the companies' own merger-day notices and TPC's yearly ones.
- One index starts around 2018.Its start date is inferred from its numbering, not stated.
Sanity check
Two companies over eight years, less the one merger year, gives 15.
Where it comes from
Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes:
- ReportedMerger year against non merger year tally, year to March 2015–year to March 2026
- ReportedCoverage matrix by company year and index, year to March 2015–year to March 2026
Show the working
- 17 − 2 (FY3/26 partial) = 15 fully covered
- 213/365 = 58% of the FY3/26 publication year indexed
Where it’s used
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