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Dave Preece

A statistician like Jon – you would have thought– would have a little more about him/productive to say, but I suppose take a young kid with brains, who's been on the telly a bit, and then expect him to be even half normal/helpful, may be asking a bit too much, I suppose?

Dave Preece

I've got a good system. You get 1,000 points for being one of Conor Travers, Julian Fell, or Harvey Freeman. If you're anyone else you lose 10,000. I haven't done the calculations yet myself, but it'd be interesting to see how the leaderboard looks. As ever, for someone so 'apparently clever' you d...

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Defo right.

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My scoring system used (which for the record was the 16th different system I have tried over the last few months): Firstly all contestants must have been some sort of champion to qualify and all stats are taken only from championship games and not specials etc, etc. Formula: % of max + games played...

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What other key 'key performance indicators' should be used in all you opinions?

Number of maxs
% of max I feel is a must
Games played is also to ensure % of max isnt a fuke
% of games won surely should also be there

What else???

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Champs + top seeds still in the hunt for this current series, sorry!

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Cheers, the max/120 is defo a better way.

Dave Preece

My scoring system used (which for the record was the 16th different system I have tried over the last few months): Firstly all contestants must have been some sort of champion to qualify and all stats are taken only from championship games and not specials etc, etc. Formula: % of max + games played ...

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I still feel ever so butthurt though!

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Fair enough!

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Definitely did!

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Google Chrome doesn't let me look at www.apterous...

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I'm sure Heffrey Jansford might have something to say about this, in some sort of backwards parallel universe?

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You wouldn't have to have the names filled for the next two weeks but It'd be nice to know the name of the contestant who appears the next day..... just in case the camera pans the name too quick or has omitted to get it in shot as sometimes has happened in the past. Mauro Good point, but I'm sure ...

Dave Preece

Mark Deeks wrote:Isn't it more fun not knowing? I always thought so.

But the 'fun' isn't lessened any by knowing the DC guest?

Where's the difference?

Plus we all know from a thread on here when some players are going on — if posted!

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Also you could get two people's names filled in on the same day, and then if neither of them were playing the day before you'd be all OMG TWO NEW CONTESTANTS THAT MEANS THERE'S AN OCTOCHAMP OR A PAEDO OR SOMETHING and it would spoil the surprise of there being an octochamp or a paedo. Or even an oc...

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Thanks Tom, as I say, it is all about, the key performance indicators I listed above, if any other indicators will make it more accurate without losing the top players where they should be then or course they should be included, but I found whilst compiling, that if you add certain indicators in, it...

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11th. Ouch Yeah, defo should be above Chris (at least IMO), but no lists are 100%, this list doesn't take specials (as you obviously beat Chris in a special) into account AND it's scoring Chris's higher on his highest score - even though yours was a MAX, which did scored you more points!!! As I say...

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Jon O'Neill wrote:Lock it up mods.

Yeah defo, wouldn't want any more accurate or more interesting ranking lists or views now would we?

Dave Preece

Yeh, me too!

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So when is Fiona ? on?
Alex ? on?
and
Adbirizal Hirsi on?

Please?

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Can we please have the names of known forthcoming contestants filled in on the latest series wiki page please, a bit like known air dates and known dictionary corner guests are filling in in advance? No spoilers will be shown and the grid will become FAR more informative. Hope you can, who actually ...

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OK, after several months of collating data and running all sorts of different ways of compiling an all-time ranking list of Countdown contestants (some were way-out and included names that very few regard as the best and some were quite accurate with the names you'd expect at - or near - the top, bu...

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Who was the first contestant to appear for the second time (on a separate 'run')?

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Any other examples of 'nods' to contestants in one of their own conundrums?

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Highest ever % of max???

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Cheers guys...

Just thought it was 8 because that's between 5 and 10, or somethign daft?

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She said something along the lines of:

"You BASTARD, I could have had a max game there, FML!"

Dave Preece

Sorry if this is either obvious or has been pointed out before: Why is eight the limit to the number of prelim wins you can have, I realise there HAS to be a limit, but why eight and not a more 'friendly' looking number, like, five or ten? I'm thinking I might have nearly answered my own question, a...

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James Robinson wrote:
Dave Preece wrote:Why?
They don't like exposure to the spotlight, or just can't be arsed.

Thought as much!

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Isn't it happening more and more due to fewer good applicants? This is why I don't see a problem in you re-appearing Dan — but you do?

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If all players start at 1500, then play for 10% each of their current points, winning and losing points, surely a pretty accurate rank will be displayed AND an interesting historic one too... This is of course is a VERY basic way ot the system... Very!

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Tough one this – hope it's doable – starting right at episode 1 and running through all episodes in order, is it possible to produce an all-time contestant ranking list using the 'Glicko-2 system' used on Apterous? Would be VERY interesting to see, don't you think? Don't think it would be possible ...

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Inspired by this thread from ages ago... If we make a graph where the nodes are Countdown contestants and the links are games between those contestants, almost every player is connected to every other player by some degrees of separation. I've not counted co-event games. Besides Richard and Carol ,...

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Not judging by his contributions on the 'Ask Graeme!' Thread..

Please explain, young Jack!

Dave Preece

Tough one this – hope it's doable – starting right at episode 1 and running through all episodes in order, is it possible to produce an all-time contestant ranking list using the 'Glicko-2 system' used on Apterous?

Would be VERY interesting to see, don't you think?

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What is most 'back and forth' game ever? IE: where the lead changed the most times?

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Could Graeme do a top 100 list ranked on lowest average?

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Yeh, or maybe Mark Tournoff?

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Peado then? Name and shame I say, but, as shallow as it might seem, I was kinda on about the score etc!

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I'm just curious to know — with all the connections to Countdown, all this site's user have, how come no one has no idea what happened...? Or are we not allowed to make it public, like a spoiler or something? Surely someone we know was in the audience?

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Kevin Bacon is only the 370th best example to have the Six degrees to... game named after him.

Harvey Keitel is top of the list with the lowest number of degrees on average.

Who is the Harvey Keitel of Countdown?

If his or her initials are HT, I'll eat my top hat!

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And there's the reason I probably wont go on Countdown, LOL!

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Wasn't ASSENDING there for a 9 in one round?

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I'm sure there was a 90 year-old on the show?

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Thanks Graeme, in depth as ever, good stuff!!!

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Extremely hard to 'guess' that, I guess!

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Not that it matters, but Carol obviously didn't get the famous James Martin's best-ever solve...

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What is the average gap between octochamps is all series? It does seen when one ends its about 3 or 4 or 5 and then another one begins, this may some how prove the heats are seeded... As we know they are... Also, can the same thing be done for 7 wins, 6 wins, 5 wins, 4 wins etc etc, to prove this in...

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What's the 'THING' about series 54 then???

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Charlie Reams wrote:Neat! Obvious question: which two players are separated by the most steps? (ie longest shortest path)

But obviously you shouldn't even be reading this until you've answered Dave Preece's question in the other thread.

DEFFFO!!!

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I'm not in-the-know but would like to be, how come Frank M's personal reasons are hilarious? Something like he went out on the night between his two filming sessions, got really, really, really, drunk and ended up getting arrested in Scotland in the early hours of the morning. BRILLIANT, thanks for...

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Thanks Graeme, but just for kicks, can you do 9 rounders - please?

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Hi Graeme, have you got an answer to my last question please

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I'm not in-the-know but would like to be, how come Frank M's personal reasons are hilarious?

PS

Great work AGAIN Graeme!!!

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Excellent as ever Graeme, any chance of answering my last 'Ask Graeme!' question please?

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Easiest conundrum for a while IMO

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Good stuff!

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