I was just looking at this. So the translation of someone's old score into their new format score is Letters*10/11 + Numbers*4/3 + Conundrum. (Jack's description is horrendous.)Graeme Cole wrote:I make it this:Jack Worsley wrote:Graeme, could you please post a table off all old 15 octochamps' estimated totals in the new 15 using the following formula:
(average points scored per numbers round - average points scored per letters round) x 8, + original total, then rounded to the nearest whole number?
How much the new format changes someone's projected score depends on how good they are at letters and numbers. I'm interested to see how many people would have a lower projected score in the new format (I think there will be a few but mostly at the lower end of the octochamp totals). Could you also include a column which compares each octochamp's position in the table to the old 15? For example, if the sixth highest scoring octochamp in the old 15 has the fourth highest projected new 15 total, there could be a column which reads "+2" or something like that. Cheers
The "average points scored per letters round" and "average points scored per numbers round" refer to the average points scored in the appropriate type of round by that player in their heat games only. This average only counts points that were actually scored in the game, not raw scores, so if a player got an eight-letter word but was beaten by their opponent's nine, their score for that round still counts as zero.Code: Select all
OLD NEW RANK TOTAL TOTAL +/- +/- 1. Jack Hurst 946 963 +17 +0 2. Andrew Hulme 930 943 +13 +0 3. Kirk Bevins 925 940 +15 +0 4. Julian Fell 924 930 +6 +0 5. Craig Beevers 907 928 +21 +0 6. Adam Gillard 903 921 +18 +0 7. Eoin Monaghan 898 919 +21 +0 7. Edward McCullagh 896 919 +23 +1 9. Conor Travers 890 905 +15 +1 10. Chris Davies 892 900 +8 -1 11. David O'Donnell 880 899 +19 +0 12. Chris Wills 875 893 +18 +0 13. Chris Cummins 858 884 +26 +2 14. Stewart Holden 870 874 +4 -1 15. Jon Corby 856 873 +17 +1 16. Innis Carson 861 871 +10 -2 17. Tom Hargreaves 850 868 +18 +0 18. Jonathan Rawlinson 850 867 +17 -1 19. Steven Briers 843 866 +23 +2 20. Paul Gallen 846 863 +17 +0 21. Matthew Shore 850 855 +5 -4 22. Mark Deeks 824 850 +26 +5 22. Jack Welsby 831 850 +19 +3 24. Marcus Hares 834 849 +15 +0 24. James Hurrell 838 849 +11 -1 26. Jack Worsley 818 848 +30 +6 27. Daniel Pati 840 843 +3 -5 28. Richard Brittain 820 840 +20 +2 29. Grace Page 829 838 +9 -3 30. Paul Howe 815 837 +22 +5 31. Scott Gillies 810 835 +25 +8 32. John Brackstone 822 833 +11 -4 32. Graeme Cole 813 833 +20 +4 34. Charlie Reams 820 831 +11 -4 34. Tom Barnes 822 831 +9 -6 34. Jon O'Neill 804 831 +27 +9 37. George Greenhough 817 827 +10 -3 38. Mark Tournoff 809 825 +16 +2 39. Lee Hartley 811 824 +13 -2 40. Stuart Earl 807 823 +16 +2 41. Martin Bishop 809 822 +13 -1 42. Oliver Garner 802 820 +18 +2 43. Junaid Mubeen 790 817 +27 +7 44. Ryan Taylor 792 816 +24 +5 45. Jeffrey Hansford 818 813 -5 -13 46. John Hunt 788 811 +23 +5 47. John Mayhew 811 810 -1 -10 48. Richard Heald 795 808 +13 -1 49. Peter Lee 801 805 +4 -4 49. Stuart Solomons 796 805 +9 -3 51. Paul James 794 799 +5 -3 52. Cate Henderson 782 798 +16 +1 53. Tom Rowell 774 796 +22 +5 54. John Davies 766 794 +28 +10 55. Keith Maynard 785 793 +8 -3 56. Jimmy Gough 782 791 +9 -3 57. Rupert Stokoe 776 788 +12 +0 57. Aaron Webber 773 788 +15 +2 59. David Barnard 771 787 +16 +2 60. Jim Bentley 756 783 +27 +10 60. Mike Pullin 756 783 +27 +10 60. Kevin Thurlow 769 783 +14 +2 63. Wendy Roe 781 782 +1 -8 64. Tim Reypert 773 778 +5 -5 65. Neil Zussman 768 776 +8 -2 65. Shane Roberts 766 776 +10 -1 67. Steven Moir 763 775 +12 +0 68. Danny Hamilton 761 773 +12 +0 69. John Gray 757 772 +15 +0 70. Michael Macdonald-Cooper 780 771 -9 -14 71. Sweyn Kirkness 765 770 +5 -5 72. Kai Laddiman 756 765 +9 -2 73. Paul Keane 744 762 +18 +5 73. Michael Bowden 739 762 +23 +8 75. David Edwards 737 760 +23 +8 75. Gary Male 750 760 +10 -2 77. Stu Horsey 732 759 +27 +9 77. Nik Von Uexkull 749 759 +10 -3 79. Richard Pay 732 758 +26 +7 80. Martin Gardner 746 757 +11 -5 81. Brian Selway 746 756 +10 -6 81. James Roberts 736 756 +20 +4 83. Nick Wainwright 726 754 +28 +5 84. Heather Styles 737 753 +16 -1 85. Jonathan Coles 746 752 +6 -10 86. Jean Webby 738 751 +13 -4 86. Ross Allatt 741 751 +10 -6 88. Julia Wilkinson 744 737 -7 -10 89. David Von Geyer 724 734 +10 +0 90. Amey Deshpande 718 729 +11 +0 91. James Doohan 702 728 +26 +7 92. Liam Shaw 708 723 +15 +1 93. Tony Warren 712 721 +9 -1 93. Jayne Wisniewski 705 721 +16 +3 93. Brenda Jolley 718 721 +3 -3 96. Carl Williams 708 720 +12 -3 97. Rose Boyle 701 717 +16 +3 98. David Thirlwall 704 714 +10 -1 99. Andy McGurn 702 712 +10 -1 100. Judith Young 707 709 +2 -5 101. Dave Taylor 691 707 +16 +1 102. Chris Marshall 682 704 +22 +3 103. Tia Corkish 697 702 +5 -2 104. Suzi Purcell 686 695 +9 -1 105. Jeffrey Burgin 685 691 +6 -1 106. Steve Wood 675 688 +13 +0 107. Ned Pendleton 664 684 +20 +1 108. Joe Zubaidi 665 672 +7 -1 109. Chris McHenry 643 654 +11 +0 110. Danny Pledger 635 650 +15 +0
For the top 10 on the list, the average increase in score over the octorun is 15.7, for the top 20, it's 16.3, for the top 30 it's 16.2, and for the top 40 it's 16.1. I'm quite happy to say that the average difference is 16, so as a standard translation, the new system is worth 2 points a game.