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Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 6:53 pm
by Graeme Cole
Noel Mc wrote: ↑Mon Jul 27, 2020 6:31 am
What is the furthest, starting at round one, that two games have got, being identical in their selections.
- With letter/number order in a round important
- Without letter/number order in a round important
No two letters selections on Countdown have ever been exactly identical (same letters in the same order). Nine selections match nine other selections in their first eight letters, though - for example,
round 2 of episode 2085 and
round 12 of episode 3853.
If we just look at R1 selections and find the longest matching prefix between two such selections, we find that episodes
1055 and
3721 were identical in their first seven letters, as were episodes
3948 and
4827.
If we disregard the order of the letters within a selection, there are loads of episodes with the same R1 selection as some other episode (I make it 444, if you count each occurrence of the same R1 selection separately).
There is only one instance of two episodes having the same R1 selection and the same R2 selection. These were episodes
153 and
154, so it was probably a shuffling failure rather than a remarkable coincidence.
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 7:59 pm
by Noel Mc
You're like a wizard.
Statistically, it shouldn't be surprising that there have never been two identical rounds, but somehow it is.
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2020 8:47 am
by Matt Morrison
Graeme Cole wrote: ↑Mon Jul 27, 2020 6:53 pm
There is only one instance of two episodes having the same R1 selection and the same R2 selection. These were episodes
153 and
154, so it was probably a shuffling failure rather than a remarkable coincidence.
And worth mentioning the two R3s were 8/9 matching. Utter madness. Someone got shuffling in the first numbers round.
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2020 10:56 am
by Tom S
3 of Conor Travers' prelim opponent's have since re-appeared as contestants on the show. Is this the most re-appearing contestant's from a particular octochamp's prelim run?
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2020 2:15 pm
by Sam Cappleman-Lynes
Has there ever been an episode in the 15-round era in which every letters selection contained only 3 vowels?
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2020 8:41 pm
by Graeme Cole
Tom S wrote: ↑Fri Jul 31, 2020 10:56 am
3 of Conor Travers' prelim opponent's have since re-appeared as contestants on the show. Is this the most re-appearing contestant's from a particular octochamp's prelim run?
I first misinterpreted this question as "which opponent of an octochamp has had the most separate runs", so I might as well answer that, which is
Barbara Wylde with 3 appearances.
The answer to the actual question asked here is that there are two octochamps for whom three of their prelim opponents later reappeared - they are
Kevin Thurlow (Shelagh Addis, Philip Jarvis, Peter Lee) and
Richard Pay (Sue Babb, Kirk Bevins, Sue Booton).
Perhaps I'm missing something - as far as I can tell only two of
Conor's prelim opponents returned (Jane Capie and Judy Bursford). Who's the third?
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2020 8:55 pm
by Graeme Cole
Sam Cappleman-Lynes wrote: ↑Tue Aug 18, 2020 2:15 pm
Has there ever been an episode in the 15-round era in which every letters selection contained only 3 vowels?
There have been six:
http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_3876
http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_3954
http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_4381
http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_4682
http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_4956
http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_7002
In all of these except episode 3954, the conundrum also had no more than three vowels. In episode 4956 it only had two.
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2020 9:22 pm
by Tom S
Graeme Cole wrote: ↑Tue Aug 18, 2020 8:41 pm
Tom S wrote: ↑Fri Jul 31, 2020 10:56 am
Perhaps I'm missing something - as far as I can tell only two of
Conor's prelim opponents returned (Jane Capie and Judy Bursford). Who's the third?
Andrew Christley, but he went on on his 2nd appearance as Andy Christley. Don't think the wiki notes it.
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2020 2:00 pm
by Rhys Benjamin
Tom S wrote: ↑Tue Aug 18, 2020 9:22 pm
Graeme Cole wrote: ↑Tue Aug 18, 2020 8:41 pm
Perhaps I'm missing something - as far as I can tell only two of
Conor's prelim opponents returned (Jane Capie and Judy Bursford). Who's the third?
Andrew Christley, but he went on on his 2nd appearance as Andy Christley. Don't think the wiki notes it.
Are you sure? The image on the wiki looks too young. If that's confirmed for sure I will happy merge the two articles.
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2020 6:48 pm
by Gavin Chipper
What is the longest DC guest run? Phil Hammond just did eight.
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2020 8:09 pm
by Johnny Canuck
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2020 6:48 pm
What is the longest DC guest run? Phil Hammond just did eight.
Kenneth Williams’ gig in Series 1 and 2 comes to mind but that might not be it.
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2020 8:25 pm
by Tom S
Johnny Canuck wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2020 8:09 pm
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2020 6:48 pm
What is the longest DC guest run? Phil Hammond just did eight.
Kenneth Williams’ gig in Series 1 and 2 comes to mind but that might not be it.
Paul Zenon is to do 10 in a row soonish.
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2020 10:37 pm
by Ben Wilson
Gyles surely had the longest continuous run sometime in the eighties?
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2020 6:01 pm
by Adam Dexter
What is the longest run of teapots there have been? There have been 5 in a row (and counting) at present.
Getting rather expensive in the porcelain dept!
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2020 7:05 pm
by Patrick Thompson
Apologies if it’s already been asked but what is the longest valid word that’s come out in the selection stage?
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2020 4:40 pm
by James Robinson
Patrick Thompson wrote: ↑Fri Aug 21, 2020 7:05 pm
Apologies if it’s already been asked but what is the longest valid word that’s come out in the selection stage?
LOUNGED certainly came out in one of Julian Fell’s games.
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2020 10:42 pm
by L'oisleatch McGraw
Are there any Apterous users who have played at least one game every month since August 2008?
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2020 7:31 am
by Thomas Cappleman
And the answer to Sam's implicit question (where is he in the lists), which I'm sure he's already worked out: Joint second on range with 13, and 3rd on CV with 4.24
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2020 9:30 am
by Gavin Chipper
Thomas Cappleman wrote: ↑Sun Sep 06, 2020 7:31 am
And the answer to Sam's implicit question (where is he in the lists), which I'm sure he's already worked out: Joint second on range with 13, and 3rd on CV with 4.24
What about standard deviation? (The better one.)
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2020 10:03 am
by Thomas Carey
L'oisleatch McGraw wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2020 10:42 pm
Are there any Apterous users who have played at least one game every month since August 2008?
Ian Volante has september 2008 which I assume is the best you'll get
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2020 10:40 am
by Sam Cappleman-Lynes
Sam Cappleman-Lynes wrote: ↑Thu Jul 16, 2020 9:37 pm
I also did the same thing for the Nasty large numbers:
4 Large - 27492: 316 = ((62 * 12 - 1) * 37 + 1) / 87
3 Large - 32451: 877 = ((62 * 6 + 1) * 87 - 2) / 37
2 Large - 22950: 918 = (62 * 37 * 10 + 10) / (5 * 5)
1 Large - 10440: 580 = 87 * 8 * (8 + 7) / (9 + 9)
I briefly wondered what the results would be if you were allowed *any* large numbers, Aegilops-style. But a quick estimate tells me it would take a few months to exhaustively check every case. The main problem is that I've had to turn off the optimisation where I throw away partial calculations if there are multiple ways of reaching the same value with the same numbers, because here we genuinely care about the difference between (100 + 75) - 50 and 100 + (75 - 50).
Update: I decided to do the Aegilops version of
this question - namely, what is the highest unavoidable intermediate result to a numbers solution when the large numbers can be anything in the range 11-100? The results are:
1 Large - 15600: 975 = 26 * 6 * 10 * 10 / (8 + 8)
2 Large - 93600: 975 = 52 * (9 + 9) * 10 * 10 / 96
3 Large - 106596: 987 = 94 * 81 * (7 + 7) / (99 + 9)
4 Large - 855360: 972 = 96 * 90 * 99 / (89 * 10 - 10)
I almost can't believe the size of the answer to 4L.
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2020 12:29 pm
by Ian Volante
Thomas Carey wrote: ↑Sun Sep 06, 2020 10:03 am
L'oisleatch McGraw wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2020 10:42 pm
Are there any Apterous users who have played at least one game every month since August 2008?
Ian Volante has september 2008 which I assume is the best you'll get
Sad isn't it?
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2020 3:54 pm
by L'oisleatch McGraw
How many times has an error been made in dictionary corner, whereby they allowed a word not in the relevant dictionary, or disallowed a word that was...?
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2020 4:43 pm
by Tom S
Is 82 the biggest range in terms of scores in which a player has got in any 15 rounder? Thinking about how Sam's 1st opponent got 115 the game before and then 33 the next. Wondering if that is the largest range?
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2020 8:29 am
by Matt Morrison
L'oisleatch McGraw wrote: ↑Sat Sep 12, 2020 3:54 pm
How many times has an error been made in dictionary corner, whereby they allowed a word not in the relevant dictionary, or disallowed a word that was...?
justice for heather
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2020 11:06 pm
by Rhys Benjamin
L'oisleatch McGraw wrote: ↑Sat Sep 12, 2020 3:54 pm
How many times has an error been made in dictionary corner, whereby they allowed a word not in the relevant dictionary, or disallowed a word that was...?
44 times a word has been wrongly allowed, I know that much since I've just edited them all in the wiki.
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2020 1:33 pm
by Rhys Benjamin
How many 9-letter words have appeared on the show exactly once (both including and excluding as a conundrum)? I’m thinking of DIARRHOEA for a start.
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2020 11:18 pm
by Ben Wilson
One thing I've been wondering- who's played the most number of old 15 rounders without having ever played any other format? I'd be surprised if it wasn't Jack Hurst. Similarly, who's played the most number of old 9 rounders without having ever played any other format, including 14 rounders or masters games? That one's a bit harder to figure out.
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 12:56 am
by Rhys Benjamin
Ben Wilson wrote: ↑Tue Sep 29, 2020 11:18 pmwho's played the most number of old 9 rounders without having ever played any other format, including 14 rounders or masters games? That one's a bit harder to figure out.
I thought I'd have a go at this myself, manually... (i.e. I'm going to have a guess and get it wrong).
My immediate thought was the Supreme Championship, but since almost all of those players have done a GF, Coc GF, a Masters, or a 2003-15 special, then they're more or less out.
What you want, really, is a 9-round octochamp that got to the semi final, returned for a COC and, again, got to a semi final, since as far as I can work out there's no one at all in the SC other than Satbir Gupta who didn't play any other format.
So with that in mind, I'm going to make a guess at 12, tied between
Terry Knowles,
Simon Pryde (on account of the fact a lack of an 8th heat game is made up for by having a then non-standard 16-player COC),
Suzanne Miles, and
Lindsay Denyer.
But it's just a guess.
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 2:08 am
by Thomas Carey
Ben Wilson wrote: ↑Tue Sep 29, 2020 11:18 pm
One thing I've been wondering- who's played the most number of old 15 rounders without having ever played any other format? I'd be surprised if it wasn't Jack Hurst. Similarly, who's played the most number of old 9 rounders without having ever played any other format, including 14 rounders or masters games? That one's a bit harder to figure out.
new 15 has to be zarte right, surely?
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 9:44 am
by Tom S
Was looking at this game:
http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_6645, and the champ stops scoring from R7-onwards. Has any champ stopped scoring points before that point?
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 1:19 pm
by JackHurst
I would say this game is more notable for the winning word in rd 8.
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 5:20 pm
by Tom S
JackHurst wrote: ↑Sun Oct 11, 2020 1:19 pm
I would say this game is more notable for the winning word in rd 8.
If I recall correctly, Noel was completely composed when he was declaring it. Think you'd have to be if you were a secondary school teacher declaring FAPS!
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 6:08 pm
by Noel Mc
JackHurst wrote: ↑Sun Oct 11, 2020 1:19 pm
I would say this game is more notable for the winning word in rd 8.
Spotted it after about 2 seconds. Spent the next 28 seconds panicking, desperately trying to find something else.
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:28 am
by JackHurst
Noel Mc wrote: ↑Sun Oct 11, 2020 6:08 pm
JackHurst wrote: ↑Sun Oct 11, 2020 1:19 pm
I would say this game is more notable for the winning word in rd 8.
Spotted it after about 2 seconds. Spent the next 28 seconds panicking, desperately trying to find something else.
Brilliant. Good job there wasn't another F for SPAFF
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2020 3:26 pm
by Charlie Reams
I would be interested to see some stats along the lines of "max % for top seed versus max % for the other seven seeds" for each series. This might be one way to evaluate players who were most "ahead of their time" in comparison to other strong players from the same era.
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2020 9:11 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Charlie Reams wrote: ↑Sun Oct 18, 2020 3:26 pm
I would be interested to see some stats along the lines of "max % for top seed versus max % for the other seven seeds" for each series. This might be one way to evaluate players who were most "ahead of their time" in comparison to other strong players from the same era.
It might just suggest a weak series. To be ahead of their time, they'd have to be breaking new ground for max % compared to previous series. I don't think looking at someone's own series in isolation tells you that much. If you look at octochamps, you've probably got Harvey Freeman, Julian Fell and Elliott Mellor as the best examples.
But octoruns don't tell the whole story. Elliott Mellor didn't really break new ground in terms of performance overall, because of Conor Travers's performances in the 30th birthday thing. Also I think Helen Grayson actually had a higher max % than Freeman (and was before him) but wasn't an octochamp. She was number one seed though, so it fits your criterion actually. But then with such a low max available to her (apparently the eight games starting with her first (in her second run, because she retired early from series 1) had the lowest max ever - which is a pretty freaky coincidence), perhaps it's arguable that it's easier to get a high percentage of that max. And Allan Saldanha's overall performance in the supreme championship looked ahead of its time, even though he lost to Harvey Freeman (who had played worse in the tournament overall) in the final.
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2020 9:50 pm
by Rhys Benjamin
Charlie Reams wrote: ↑Sun Oct 18, 2020 3:26 pm
I would be interested to see some stats along the lines of "max % for top seed versus max % for the other seven seeds" for each series. This might be one way to evaluate players who were most "ahead of their time" in comparison to other strong players from the same era.
This is actually how I tend to predict series winners, and led to me
correctly predicting Ed McCullagh would beat Adam Gillard.
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 7:17 pm
by Graeme Cole
Johnny Canuck wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2020 8:09 pm
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2020 6:48 pm
What is the longest DC guest run? Phil Hammond just did eight.
Kenneth Williams’ gig in Series 1 and 2 comes to mind but that might not be it.
This is it. Kenneth Williams was the DC guest in 39 episodes in a row spanning
most of series 1 and
some of series 2.
The next longest run is 17, on two occasions, both by Gyles Brandreth. They were in
series 4 and
series 8.
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 7:46 pm
by Graeme Cole
Adam Dexter wrote: ↑Fri Aug 21, 2020 6:01 pm
What is the longest run of teapots there have been? There have been 5 in a row (and counting) at present.
Getting rather expensive in the porcelain dept!
If you only count heat games and ignore intervening finals, seven teapots in a row is the record. It's happened on three occasions:
These all happen to be after the teapot was introduced as a prize in about 1998 or so, but the answer is unchanged if you also look at before then. I'm counting a teapot as being awarded if a player won a heat game and that was the first episode of their run.
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 7:50 pm
by Graeme Cole
James Robinson wrote: ↑Sat Aug 22, 2020 4:40 pm
Patrick Thompson wrote: ↑Fri Aug 21, 2020 7:05 pm
Apologies if it’s already been asked but what is the longest valid word that’s come out in the selection stage?
LOUNGED certainly came out in one of Julian Fell’s games.
I don't have a definitive word list, but I'd expect this is it (round 8 in
this game), possibly along with other equally-long words. If there had been an eight-letter tnetennba I think it would have been remarked upon when transcribing the historical recaps years ago.
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 7:54 pm
by Graeme Cole
L'oisleatch McGraw wrote: ↑Sat Sep 12, 2020 3:54 pm
How many times has an error been made in dictionary corner, whereby they allowed a word not in the relevant dictionary, or disallowed a word that was...?
I can't claim credit for this, but I think what you want here is the category on the wiki entitled
Episodes affected by administrative errors. However, this includes all kinds of mistakes unrelated to word adjudication like when a vowel comes out of the consonant box.
There's also a narrower category called
Episodes critically affected by administrative errors, when an error affected the result of the game or the seedings for the finals.
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 7:59 pm
by Matt Morrison
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 8:03 pm
by Graeme Cole
Tom S wrote: ↑Sat Sep 12, 2020 4:43 pm
Is 82 the biggest range in terms of scores in which a player has got in any 15 rounder? Thinking about how Sam's 1st opponent got 115 the game before and then 33 the next. Wondering if that is the largest range?
According to the database which only goes up to series 81, the largest min-max range by a player in new 15-rounders was 76 by
Jill Thwaites (103 and 27), so the range of 82 this series is the new record.
In old 15-rounders it was 80 (134 and 54) by
Hamish Williamson.
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 8:26 pm
by Graeme Cole
Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2020 1:33 pm
How many 9-letter words have appeared on the show exactly once (both including and excluding as a conundrum)? I’m thinking of DIARRHOEA for a start.
I'm taking "appeared on the show" to mean "either or both of the contestants offered the word", mainly because I can't do it if I define it as anything else - the database doesn't record DC offerings. If both contestants offered it in the same round, that only counts as once.
Disregarding conundrums, there are 641 valid nine-letter words which have been offered in exactly one round ever, up to the end of series 81.
If we count conundrums as well (an "appearance" is when the word was the conundrum's solution, regardless of whether it was solved), there are 1,948.
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 8:35 pm
by Graeme Cole
Ben Wilson wrote: ↑Tue Sep 29, 2020 11:18 pm
One thing I've been wondering- who's played the most number of old 15 rounders without having ever played any other format? I'd be surprised if it wasn't Jack Hurst. Similarly, who's played the most number of old 9 rounders without having ever played any other format, including 14 rounders or masters games? That one's a bit harder to figure out.
Exclusively 9 rounders:
Lindsay Denyer,
Suzanne Miles,
James Martin,
Simon Pryde,
Bhavin Manek and
Terry Knowles (12).
Exclusively old 15 rounders:
Mark Tournoff and
Jack Hurst (17).
Exclusively new 15 rounders:
Zarte Siempre (21).
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 8:43 pm
by Thomas Carey
Well timed, since Jack's about to lose this 'record' in a couple months
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 8:44 pm
by Graeme Cole
If you're talking about 15-round heat games and only counting players not in the first game of their run, no. That's the only 15-round game where a champion scored nothing after R7.
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 8:44 pm
by Tom S
Graeme Cole wrote: ↑Wed Oct 21, 2020 8:44 pm
If you're talking about 15-round heat games and only counting players not in the first game of their run, no. That's the only 15-round game where a champion scored nothing after R7.
Thanks- was what I was inferring at.
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 10:01 pm
by Graeme Cole
Charlie Reams wrote: ↑Sun Oct 18, 2020 3:26 pm
I would be interested to see some stats along the lines of "max % for top seed versus max % for the other seven seeds" for each series. This might be one way to evaluate players who were most "ahead of their time" in comparison to other strong players from the same era.
I think this is vaguely similar to what you want...
This table is for all series since the 15-rounder started (series 46). First column is the series number, second column is the top seed's name, third column is their max percentage for their heats, fourth column is the average max percentage for the other seven seeds in that series. The "other seven seeds" are all the players who played a quarter-final in that series except the top seed, so anyone who would have qualified for the finals but didn't turn up for whatever reason isn't counted.
A maxed round is when the player scored the most points possible in the round (including, say, unbeaten 2-away numbers solves when the max was 1-away).
"Average max percentage" of the other seven players is worked out by dividing the total number of rounds those players maxed divided by the total number of rounds those players played, so players who played fewer than 8 heats have less weight in the average. Only the heat games for the relevant contestant run are considered.
Code: Select all
SEED 1 SEEDS 2-8
SER TOP SEED MAX % MAX %
46 Ben Wilson 46.6666 44.0
47 Chris Wills 65.8333 49.1666
48 Julian Fell 78.3333 50.8641
49 John Davies 51.6666 42.2764
50 Chris Cummins 59.1666 47.8014
51 Stewart Holden 71.6666 46.4052
52 Paul Gallen 65.0 49.6296
53 John Brackstone 54.1666 51.7283
54 Conor Travers 66.6666 50.1818
55 Steven Briers 55.8333 40.9696
56 Aaron Webber 58.3333 44.4444
57 Craig Beevers 74.1666 47.5
58 David O'Donnell 68.3333 44.1509
59 Charlie Reams 55.8333 45.6296
60 Kirk Bevins 70.8333 48.5714
61 Andrew Hulme 63.3333 51.7283
62 Oliver Garner 65.0 42.1794
63 Jack Hurst 75.8333 54.8809
64 Adam Gillard 65.0 52.1088
65 Mark Deeks 55.8333 43.2142
66 Jonathan Rawlinson 74.1666 43.8095
67 Paul James 55.8333 44.4047
68 Giles Hutchings 77.5 50.0
69 Dylan Taylor 84.1666 58.3030
70 Mark Murray 69.1666 47.3202
71 Dan McColm 79.1666 52.9696
72 Thomas Cappleman 78.3333 51.9753
73 Thomas Carey 78.3333 57.8616
74 Paul Erdunast 70.8333 44.0522
75 Martin Hurst 53.3333 40.1282
76 Stephen Read 70.8333 45.4761
77 Tom Chafer-Cook 68.3333 43.3333
78 Zarte Siempre 74.1666 45.1572
79 Martin May 52.5 39.4047
80 Elliott Mellor 85.0 39.7333
81 James Haughton 65.0 40.3571
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2020 6:50 pm
by Charlie Reams
Very interesting, thank you. So the biggest absolute differences are Elliott Mellor (+45%), Jonathan Rawlinson (+30%), and Zarte (+29%). My expectation was that more recent series are generally stronger and therefore it would be harder for the top players to maintain such a large advantage, but there's clearly no correlation. In fact the correlation between max rate and series number is very weak, so my whole premise is probably wrong.
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 3:55 pm
by L'oisleatch McGraw
So if Paul had buzzed in with DECANTING before the human dictionary got it, he'd now hold the "3 rounds to go" record... Gotta be a candidate for one of the greatest "if onlys".
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2020 3:03 pm
by Rhys Benjamin
How many times has the max been 100 or more, and how many times has at least one contestant hit 100 or more?
(Basically, "century success rate", please.)
I know no one ever got a century in 9-rounders but I'd like to see how often it was possible...!
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2020 3:36 pm
by Paul Anderson
L'oisleatch McGraw wrote: ↑Tue Oct 27, 2020 3:55 pm
So if Paul had buzzed in with DECANTING before the human dictionary got it, he'd now hold the "3 rounds to go" record... Gotta be a candidate for one of the greatest "if onlys".
Pros: I'd have made the finals and I'd possibly be eligible for next CoC
Cons: Wouldn't have made all the friends that enabled ZD or even had the same desire to maybe
But yeah, I had convinced myself it wasn't going to be an -ing
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2020 4:02 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Mon Nov 02, 2020 3:03 pm
How many times has the max been 100 or more, and how many times has at least one contestant hit 100 or more?
(Basically, "century success rate", please.)
I know no one ever got a century in 9-rounders but I'd like to see how often it was possible...!
I don't think a max of less than 100 has ever happened in a televised 15-rounder.
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2020 5:32 pm
by James Robinson
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Nov 02, 2020 4:02 pm
Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Mon Nov 02, 2020 3:03 pm
How many times has the max been 100 or more, and how many times has at least one contestant hit 100 or more?
(Basically, "century success rate", please.)
I know no one ever got a century in 9-rounders but I'd like to see how often it was possible...!
I don't think a max of less than 100 has ever happened in a televised 15-rounder.
I think the lowest was just in the high 100’s...
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2020 3:18 pm
by JackHurst
Not really one for Graeme to answer, but more a bit of fun for the community at large to try and have a guess at.
Which contestant(s) has been seen from below the waist in most episodes?
I know e.g. for myself the answer is three (s63 final, 30BC QF Hug with DoD, 30BC Final). I think for Conor the answer is at least three (s54 final, 25th Birthday, 30BC final)
I don't know if Rachel has been a contestant in some special scenario before in which case she would obviously win.
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2020 3:24 pm
by JackHurst
Continuing in the spirit of asking questions which are awkward to find an answer to and which I think I may appear in the answers for:
Who is the soberest aptoholic to appear on the show? Defined by:
- Given somebody who had recorded an episode and also played at least 1 game on apterous (or we could limit it to subscribed to apterous)
- Who has the greatest gap in time between a recording date of any of their episodes and the game they had most recently played on apterous prior to that recording.
For example, when I filmed the xmas specials earlier this month, it was more than 6 years since I played on apterous (which I find nuts!!!)
I would imagine for most aptoholics the answer is <24hrs since it must be pretty common to be practising online the day before you record.
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2020 7:14 pm
by Rhys Benjamin
JackHurst wrote: ↑Mon Nov 16, 2020 3:18 pm
Not really one for Graeme to answer, but more a bit of fun for the community at large to try and have a guess at.
Which contestant(s) has been seen from below the waist in most episodes?
I know e.g. for myself the answer is three (s63 final, 30BC QF Hug with DoD, 30BC Final). I think for Conor the answer is at least three (s54 final, 25th Birthday, 30BC final)
I don't know if Rachel has been a contestant in some special scenario before in which case she would obviously win.
I think the answer is Carol Vorderman. She did more episodes than Rachel, and was a contestant in the 1997 Christmas special.
Re: Ask Graeme?
Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2020 12:48 am
by L'oisleatch McGraw
In light of the 18-11-2020 daily duel, I wonder which apto daily duel had:
a) the most 1st places awarded
b) the greatest percentage of 1st places awarded (if different)
?