Octochamp medians

Gavin Chipper · Post by **Gavin Chipper** » Sun May 11, 2008 7:46 pm

I had a look at some of the highest scoring Octochamps and added their fourth and fifth best scores and multiplied by four to get an eight game total. Make of it what you will. The score in brackets is their actual total.

15 rounds

1. Julian Fell: 912 (924)
2. Craig Beevers: 904 (907)
3. Conor Travers: 900 (890)
4. David O'Donnell: 900 (880)
5. Stewart Holden: 884 (870)
6. Tom Hargreaves: 864 (860)
7. Chris Cummins: 852 (858)
8. Matthew Shore: 848 (850)
9. Jon Corby: 844 (856)
10. Chris Wills: 840 (875)
11. Paul Gallen: 836 (846)

9 rounds

1. David Williams: 528 (535)
2. Scott Mearns: 520 (510)
3. Harvey Freeman: 516 (523)
4. Lucy Roberts: 508 (504)
5. Terry Knowles: 496 (502)
5. Don Reid: 496 (487)
7. Richard Campbell: 492 (500)
7. Kevin McMahon: 492 (498)
9. Allan Saldanha: 468 (490)
9. David Acton: 468 (486)

Richard Brittain · Post by **Richard Brittain** » Sun May 11, 2008 7:54 pm

I'm not sure what to make of this.

Martin Gardner · Post by **Martin Gardner** » Mon May 12, 2008 6:02 pm

Mine comes out at 800.

Martin

Jon Corby · Post by **Jon Corby** » Mon May 12, 2008 6:09 pm

Why would you do that?

Gavin Chipper · Post by **Gavin Chipper** » Mon May 12, 2008 7:14 pm

Corby wrote:Why would you do that?

It's vaguely interesting isn't it? Just a little bit?

Jon Corby · Post by **Jon Corby** » Mon May 12, 2008 7:16 pm

Gevin-Gavin wrote:
Corby wrote:Why would you do that?
It's vaguely interesting isn't it? Just a little bit?

No! And mine was one of the few that went down, which makes it totally gay.

Gavin Chipper · Post by **Gavin Chipper** » Mon May 12, 2008 7:17 pm

Corby wrote:No! And mine was one of the few that went down, which makes it totally gay.

You're alright - Chris Wills had to be talked down from a high building.

Jon Corby · Post by **Jon Corby** » Mon May 12, 2008 7:19 pm

Gevin-Gavin wrote:Chris Wills had to be talked down from a high building.

Why would you do that?

Gavin Chipper · Post by **Gavin Chipper** » Mon May 12, 2008 7:29 pm

Corby wrote:
Gevin-Gavin wrote:Chris Wills had to be talked down from a high building.
Why would you do that?

Wasn't me - I was just watching!

Jason Larsen · Post by **Jason Larsen** » Mon May 12, 2008 7:48 pm

Because Charlie has had the Countdown Wiki up and running for a while now, I think we should play a rounding game when we figure out the averages of these people's scores. We can get as close as possible, and the people who win those games can get bragging rights.

Dan Vanniasingham · Post by **Dan Vanniasingham** » Mon May 12, 2008 8:19 pm

Jason Larsen wrote:Because Charlie has had the Countdown Wiki up and running for a while now, I think we should play a rounding game when we figure out the averages of these people's scores. We can get as close as possible, and the people who win those games can get bragging rights.

I didn't think any 'game' could sound worse than 'Carey Countdown', but you've proven me wrong.

Jason Larsen · Post by **Jason Larsen** » Mon May 12, 2008 8:26 pm

Why, are you not crazy about Drew Carey?

This other game that I thought of isn't anything like the Price is Right.

Richard Brittain · Post by **Richard Brittain** » Mon May 12, 2008 10:18 pm

Jason, I think Ben Pugh would just cheat by using a calculator. It would never work.

Jason Larsen · Post by **Jason Larsen** » Mon May 12, 2008 11:05 pm

Ok, that's called off now.

Martin Gardner · Post by **Martin Gardner** » Tue May 13, 2008 6:56 pm

Just out of interest I worked out my "duplicate score" - i.e. if you were doing duplicate and you got the points for all the words and numbers even if you get beaten by someone else in the room. Mine works out as 805. i.e. 746 plus 59 points in rounds where I got beaten by my opponent that would have scored had the opponent missed their word.

Martin

Jon O'Neill · Post by **Jon O'Neill** » Tue May 13, 2008 7:09 pm

I've got a new statistical method for working out who the best octochamp ever it is. It involves a secret algorithm called the O'Nalgorithm and several co-efficients to do with difficulty of numbers rounds, appearances on the show and under-table masturbation, the details of which I shan't trouble your pretty little minds with.

Anyway it gives a score out of 10. Here are the results:

Jon O'Neill: 9
Jeffrey Hansford: 12
Martin Gardner: 0
Everyone else: -5

It gets interesting when we try to extrapolate those unfortunate non-octochamps. The two most notable outcomes:

Joseph Bolas: 89,246
Amey Deshpande: 89,246.1

I think that settles it once and for all, no?

Gavin Chipper · Post by **Gavin Chipper** » Tue May 13, 2008 8:13 pm

Just out of interest, why is everyone obsessed with Amey Deshpande? Is it to do with getting on twice?

Jon Corby · Post by **Jon Corby** » Tue May 13, 2008 9:54 pm

Gevin-Gavin wrote:Just out of interest, why is everyone obsessed with Amey Deshpande? Is it to do with getting on twice?

Thrice.

Ben Pugh · Post by **Ben Pugh** » Tue May 13, 2008 10:16 pm

Richard Brittain wrote:Jason, I think Ben Pugh would just cheat by using a calculator. It would never work.

I'm not sure a calculator would really help on the Price is Right (apart from maybe in the final round).

Jason Larsen · Post by **Jason Larsen** » Tue May 13, 2008 10:32 pm

We do the showcase differently.

The two top winners in every show face off and are presented with two showcases. You can either bid on your showcase or if you don't like it you can pass it to your opponent. If you're closer to your opponent, you win.

What do you suppose this will turn into, The Countdown is Right?

Joseph Bolas · Post by **Joseph Bolas** » Wed May 14, 2008 12:31 am

Gevin-Gavin wrote:Just out of interest, why is everyone obsessed with Amey Deshpande? Is it to do with getting on twice?

I started a rant in the mailing list because Amey had two goes at attempting to become an octochamp and thusly having a chance at winning a series, which I went too far with

.

Jason Larsen · Post by **Jason Larsen** » Wed May 14, 2008 2:35 am

Why was she on twice in the last series?

Richard Brittain · Post by **Richard Brittain** » Wed May 14, 2008 7:08 am

Jason Larsen wrote:Why was she on twice in the last series?

It's a he, but I guess maybe if he had a sex change that would account for why he/she has been able to get on twice?

Joseph Bolas · Post by **Joseph Bolas** » Wed May 14, 2008 1:09 pm

Richard Brittain wrote:It's a he, but I guess maybe if he had a sex change that would account for why he/she has been able to get on twice?

There has to be one Countdowner who has had a sex change, surely

Jason Larsen · Post by **Jason Larsen** » Wed May 14, 2008 1:33 pm

Amey Deshpande is a man?

Ralph Gillions · Post by **Ralph Gillions** » Wed May 14, 2008 3:02 pm

Yes Jason.
I can`t remember about his origins, though.

Ben Wilson · Post by **Ben Wilson** » Wed May 14, 2008 3:14 pm

Joseph Bolas wrote:
Richard Brittain wrote:It's a he, but I guess maybe if he had a sex change that would account for why he/she has been able to get on twice?
There has to be one Countdowner who has had a sex change, surely

There has, but I can't remember off the top of my head who it was. (cue Damian with a 'Christina Wills' joke)

Jason Larsen · Post by **Jason Larsen** » Wed May 14, 2008 10:15 pm

Wowwee!

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