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- Mon May 20, 2013 10:41 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: C4C Fantasy Football
- Replies: 174
- Views: 80632
Re: C4C Fantasy Football
Yeah, I thought we'd already talked about this on here, but if we have it wasn't in this thread. I've been in a league with some friends for years, and I don't like to battle on more than one front because of strategy and stuff.
- Sun May 19, 2013 10:20 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: C4C Fantasy Football
- Replies: 174
- Views: 80632
Re: C4C Fantasy Football
Well done to Jen, the better player definitely won! Well done Ed too! But we must give massive congratulations to Michael "Raccoon" Wallace, who came 55th IN THE WORLD this season. Quite incredible! :oops: (Just goes to show what a statistics PhD and wasting far too much time on Fantasy F...
- Mon Apr 15, 2013 9:37 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: University Challenge 2012/2013
- Replies: 28
- Views: 9994
Re: University Challenge 2012/2013
Yep, shame these two teams 'had' to meet in the semis - clearly the best in the series, I think (although upsets can always happen, of course). Tom made more than his share of contributions tonight, but his team didn't quite pick up the slack (and the captain was a touch trigger-happy, but that's un...
- Fri Apr 12, 2013 11:58 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: University Challenge 2012/2013
- Replies: 28
- Views: 9994
Re: University Challenge 2012/2013
A nice little mention: Tom's semi-final against UCL is on this Monday at 8pm on BBC Two. 8-) Sucks that the two unbeaten teams have to play each other in the semis (although I guess they want to delay a rematch until the final). Serious conflict of interests for me, being both a UCL and Cambridge a...
- Thu Apr 11, 2013 2:53 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1753
- Views: 774557
Re: Ask Graeme?
Only just seen this, thanks - pretty interesting. (I don't really have anything to add right now, but didn't want to seem like I'd just ignored it.)Graeme Cole wrote:An answer to my earlier question
- Wed Apr 03, 2013 11:33 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1753
- Views: 774557
Re: Ask Graeme?
It would be interesting to know how many apterites there were in each series: looking at averages across all games is presumably going to considerably dilute any apto-effect. Could you look at median winning margin in heat games of series finalists?
- Wed Mar 27, 2013 5:15 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday March 27th 2013 (Series 68 Prelim 15)
- Replies: 29
- Views: 6584
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday March 27th 2013 (Series 68 Prelim
FLORUITEDJon O'Neill wrote:Can anybody else think of any good contenders for greatest nine of all time?
- Tue Mar 26, 2013 11:05 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday March 26th 2013 (Series 68 Prelim 13)
- Replies: 34
- Views: 7470
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday March 26th 2013 (Series 68 Prelim 1
If they had kept all the apterites separate in series 64 and 66 (the two series in which an octochamp had beaten 4 other apterites) then all the finalists would have been apterites which seems a bit unfair on the non-apterite good players. It's curious that you describe that as 'unfair': it's not l...
- Tue Mar 19, 2013 1:07 am
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: University Challenge 2012/2013
- Replies: 28
- Views: 9994
Re: University Challenge 2012/2013
Cracking stuff again. I can imagine Tom was gritting his teeth both times St. George's got a set of (very easy) maths bonuses and proceeded to guffaw their way through getting them wrong.
I just hope you don't come up against UCL in the semis, my loyalties will be split!
I just hope you don't come up against UCL in the semis, my loyalties will be split!
- Mon Mar 18, 2013 9:25 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Monday March 18th 2013
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4545
Re: Spoilers For Monday March 18th 2013
I was quite surprised that, when declared in R1, BASTARD wasn't bleeped out. Yes, a bit of double standards there, especially since BASTARDS was bleeped out in Series 61 . Weird. I guess BASTARD is considered a techincal term while BASTARDS is an insult... or someone just dropped the ball. Either w...
- Mon Mar 18, 2013 1:07 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1753
- Views: 774557
Re: Ask Graeme?
If the letters are shuffled face up, that could explain it. Humans can't consciously generate truly random sequences , mainly because repeated occurrences of the same thing don't look "random" enough to us. I can't be the only one who has been in the audience and seen the shuffling take p...
- Mon Mar 11, 2013 6:35 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Jacintha Saldanha
- Replies: 54
- Views: 10130
Re: Jacintha Saldanha
The vast majority of studies of people who survive suicide attempts show that their mental state clouds their judgement and that most who fail at killing themselves are glad that they weren't successful. That second point is an interesting claim - source(s)? Not trying to be a smart-arse, I'd just ...
- Mon Mar 04, 2013 5:26 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Monday March 4th 2013
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4008
Re: Spoilers For Monday March 4th 2013
(Weirdly, I saw that MINISCULE could have come up with a final vowel pick, and indeed LUMINESCE too, but I wouldn't have gone for MINUSCULE (weirdly this gets more hits in google than what I'd have deemed the common spelling - would be interested to hear everyone's thoughts on that). Wasn't MINISCU...
- Mon Mar 04, 2013 3:49 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown for Comic Relief
- Replies: 205
- Views: 47249
Re: Countdown for Comic Relief
Ha, I did wonder about that when I heard it (makes perfect sense to me to rig that, for all the reasons you've already given). Does Rachel know that you've swindled an extra fiver out of her though?Mark Deeks wrote:There was one part that was fixed - the fact that a nine came out on radio.
- Sat Mar 02, 2013 7:20 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown for Comic Relief
- Replies: 205
- Views: 47249
Re: Countdown for Comic Relief
Looks like, rather impressively, there's no time effect on either player's max performance. I'll spare you the formal statistical details, but the hypothesis I tested was "Does $player's probability of scoring a max change over time?" with the answer being a pretty confident "no"...
- Sat Mar 02, 2013 6:54 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown for Comic Relief
- Replies: 205
- Views: 47249
Re: Countdown for Comic Relief
For which rounds did Rachel host? I'm doing some stats and figure it would be fun to see if there was a Rachel effect.
- Sat Mar 02, 2013 12:03 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: 30BC Grand Final Spoilers For Friday March 1st 2013
- Replies: 132
- Views: 38155
Re: 30BC Grand Final Spoilers For Friday March 1st 2013
gg n1 wp etc.
- Sun Feb 24, 2013 8:12 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1753
- Views: 774557
Re: Ask Graeme?
Oh yeah, just realized my query doesn't make sense given that I thought we were talking about declarations, rather than maxes. If we could have stats on declarations over the past few series that would be fun (and arguably more indicative of what sort of change the new format would have on scores)....
- Sat Feb 23, 2013 1:33 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: B'day Championship Spoilers For Friday February 22nd 2013
- Replies: 81
- Views: 18442
Re: B'day Championship Spoilers For Friday February 22nd 201
Oo-er.James Robinson wrote:If that says nothing of the tip quality of this series...
- Fri Feb 22, 2013 10:13 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1753
- Views: 774557
Re: Ask Graeme?
Oh yeah, just realized my query doesn't make sense given that I thought we were talking about declarations, rather than maxes. If we could have stats on declarations over the past few series that would be fun (and arguably more indicative of what sort of change the new format would have on scores).
- Fri Feb 22, 2013 8:46 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Best ever contestants
- Replies: 546
- Views: 425347
Re: Best ever contestants
Unfortunately, 'chuckle' is another c4c euphemism.
- Fri Feb 22, 2013 3:26 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: B'day Championship Spoilers For Friday February 22nd 2013
- Replies: 81
- Views: 18442
Re: B'day Championship Spoilers For Friday February 22nd 201
Yep, max game (and so 28/29 maxes to boot). Was not expecting that. Some really cracking spots as well. Great times.
- Thu Feb 21, 2013 5:09 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Good news, Gevin!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6948
Re: Good news, Gevin!
C4 seem to be struggling to get their afternoons right at the moment, and I hope they soon find a pattern that they can set in stone for a couple of years. I don't really understand why all the shite experimental quiz shows that won't last have to be on in Countdown's slot rather than the other way...
- Thu Feb 21, 2013 1:43 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Last night I was at a quiz and...
- Replies: 41
- Views: 10579
Re: Last night I was at a quiz and...
Ha, I remember at the time of his last reading of it that that would make an excellent quiz question. Glad to see someone else had the same idea.
- Wed Feb 20, 2013 7:33 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1753
- Views: 774557
Re: Ask Graeme?
Graeme, what is the average maximum available for a letters round and for a numbers round? Just wondering how much difference on average the proposed format change will make (I'm guessing about 2-3 points). Some sort of distribution around the average would also be quite useful. On this subject, it...
- Wed Feb 20, 2013 6:50 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Lotto Probability
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2196
Re: Lotto Probability
There are 20,475 ways of drawing four numbers from 28, and so if you then have to match the bonus as well (at odds of 1 in 28) that gives you a 1 in 573,300 of winning. Assuming I've understood the question correctly, of course.
- Tue Feb 19, 2013 4:15 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: B'day Championship Spoilers For Tuesday February 19th 2013
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4247
Re: B'day Championship Spoilers For Tuesday February 19th 20
Wasn't it PUTTIED?Tony Atkins wrote:I was pleased to beat Jack on the PUTTIES round
And yeah, well played Jack, very solid performance. (I also fell for HARPSICORD)
- Sat Feb 16, 2013 8:13 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Pancake Day
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3427
Re: Pancake Day
Pancake Saturday here.
- Fri Feb 15, 2013 10:16 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: B'day Championship Spoilers For Thursday February 14th 2013
- Replies: 66
- Views: 14150
Re: B'day Championship Spoilers For Thursday February 14th 2
You got me, very goodJon Corby wrote:Surely if this specific [mass noun] definition of ravioli isn't listed, this is a complete non-starter? lol ravioli isn't usually a starter, noDavid Williams wrote: But if you assume another definition, a portion of ravioli
- Thu Feb 14, 2013 4:09 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: B'day Championship Spoilers For Thursday February 14th 2013
- Replies: 66
- Views: 14150
Re: B'day Championship Spoilers For Thursday February 14th 2
Round 3: Lexplorer allows SALMONS. If Chris loses.... MP I'm sure I remember Susie saying that she WOULD allow SALMONS in a previous episode, due to the food ordering rule. Very odd. I could imagine she might have said that without double-checking as if it was just a "oh, and you could have ha...
- Thu Feb 14, 2013 1:59 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown mentions on other shows
- Replies: 315
- Views: 153985
Re: Countdown mentions on other shows
On Scott Mills' 'inneundo bingo' they just used a clip of (I think) of Jono's first episode from this series. It was just on now, so presumably on listen again it'll be about 58 minutes in.
- Wed Feb 13, 2013 11:02 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: B'day Championship Spoilers For Wednesday February 13th 2013
- Replies: 44
- Views: 11888
Re: B'day Championship Spoilers For Wednesday February 13th
I would love this. (New idea: Countdown 'late' where DC and Rachel are really insulting and contestants get double points for rude words.)Gavin Chipper wrote:Or she could have just said "I can't believe neither of you noticed that there was an S for BROMINES - what a pair of dickheads!"
- Wed Feb 13, 2013 5:44 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: B'day Championship Spoilers For Wednesday February 13th 2013
- Replies: 44
- Views: 11888
Re: B'day Championship Spoilers For Wednesday February 13th
Yep, not much to add, although impressed with the Countdown Team for including Rachel's comment about the max game - I'd imagine it would pass most viewers by, but a nice touch for those of us 'in the know'
- Wed Feb 13, 2013 2:36 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Same Sex Marriage
- Replies: 25
- Views: 6652
Re: Same Sex Marriage
I'm all in favour of civil partnerships and think they should confer exactly the same rights as marriage, but I'm really confused about why same-sex couples would want the ceremony in church. I don't understand why, after centuries of persecution, couples would want their relationship validated by ...
- Mon Feb 11, 2013 3:59 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Birthday Championship Spoilers For Monday February 11th 2013
- Replies: 28
- Views: 8422
Re: Birthday Championship Spoilers For Monday February 11th
I think this is clearly the only plausible explanation.szodiac wrote:Perhaps it was a tactical ploy not to let Jonanthan in for an early 9 !?!?
- Fri Feb 08, 2013 3:37 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Last night I was at a quiz and...
- Replies: 41
- Views: 10579
Re: Last night I was at a quiz and...
Ha, you started this thread on the same day I finally got around to starting a blog of all the quiz questions we miss.
- Tue Feb 05, 2013 5:19 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown for Comic Relief
- Replies: 205
- Views: 47249
Re: Countdown for Comic Relief
Where is this happening? Presumably it would be pretty easy to get a few volunteers to host in rotation?
- Tue Feb 05, 2013 11:48 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: C4C Fantasy Football
- Replies: 174
- Views: 80632
Re: C4C Fantasy Football
Yeah, it's not really that important for the most part, but obviously can have implications if it's getting close towards the end of the season.Matt Morrison wrote:That's deep. Never thought about adjusting strategy per league. Maybe too deep.
- Mon Feb 04, 2013 11:35 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: C4C Fantasy Football
- Replies: 174
- Views: 80632
Re: C4C Fantasy Football
Haha, fair. (I just mean if I actually 'play' in too many leagues I can't then give them all enough attention (from a strategy perspective).)Matt Morrison wrote:Lol @ manually comparing leagues with links and screenshots and dual windows and shit as being "easier"
- Mon Feb 04, 2013 10:23 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: C4C Fantasy Football
- Replies: 174
- Views: 80632
Re: C4C Fantasy Football
Can someone link to the league for nosy parkers plz? Here it is . Dunno if you have to be registered to access it, probably not. Oh, and also here for the other one (that I'm not doing so well in). Cheers. (I have a team of my own, but like to keep my number of Fantasy football leagues relatively l...
- Mon Feb 04, 2013 2:17 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: C4C Fantasy Football
- Replies: 174
- Views: 80632
Re: C4C Fantasy Football
Can someone link to the league for nosy parkers plz?
- Sun Feb 03, 2013 12:54 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Only Connect
- Replies: 169
- Views: 112144
Re: Only Connect
Update plz (unless you've been sworn to secrecy).
- Fri Feb 01, 2013 3:23 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Birthday Championship Spoilers For Friday February 1st 2013
- Replies: 62
- Views: 15128
Re: Birthday Championship Spoilers For Friday February 1st 2
Er. Was that a max game? I made that a max game.
- Thu Jan 31, 2013 3:24 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: B'day Championship Spoilers For Thursday January 31st 2013
- Replies: 43
- Views: 10662
Re: B'day Championship Spoilers For Thursday January 31st 20
Game of the tournament (so far).
- Thu Jan 31, 2013 12:26 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Birthday Championship Spoilers For Tuesday January 29th 2013
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7186
Re: Birthday Championship Spoilers For Tuesday January 29th
Why would anyone think that was a word?Kirk Bevins wrote:I quite enjoy the DC guests who play along and ask Susie "is xyz in"?
- Sun Jan 27, 2013 7:54 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: A massive thanks !
- Replies: 44
- Views: 14800
Re: A massive thanks !
Clearly, people who are more put off by not being able to compete with the contestants than they are impressed by their ability are in the minority. I think this has been discussed to death on here already, but I'd be interested to know how true this is. Certainly when I was (much) younger I didn't...
- Wed Jan 23, 2013 5:29 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: 10 ways to improve Countdown Viewing Figures
- Replies: 61
- Views: 10965
Re: 10 ways to improve Countdown Viewing Figures
I'm curious - what was so good about the late 90s and early 00s? (I think this is a question that can be opened up to everyone.) My opening gambit: S Club 7.
- Tue Jan 22, 2013 1:15 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Birthday Championship Spoilers For Monday January 21st 2013
- Replies: 34
- Views: 6009
Re: Birthday Championship Spoilers For Monday January 21st 2
The obvious solution is to have apterous assign each player a measure of how much Susie likes them, and then allow/disallow slightly dodgy rules according to some probability distribution. I assume she'd be delighted if we wrote to her with a list of all the active apterous players (perhaps with a s...
- Fri Jan 18, 2013 4:57 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday January 17th 2013 (Birthday Prelim 9)
- Replies: 57
- Views: 11523
Re: Spoilers for Thursday January 17th 2012 (Birthday Prelim
Spoilers!James Robinson wrote:Or today's for that matterCountdown Team wrote:Not enough attention to spot that this thread is dated 2012 though. Call that an equaliser !
- Fri Jan 11, 2013 7:37 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday January 11th (Birthday Prelim 5)
- Replies: 46
- Views: 14961
Re: Spoilers for Friday January 11th (Birthday Prelim 5)
On an interesting side note, this is the first "upset" according to Michael Wallace's predictor. (Nick was put at 15th at last check, Mark at 28th.) Yep, just noticed this myself. (Although for the sake of my reputation I should point out both of these guys are sufficiently regular player...
- Thu Jan 10, 2013 4:52 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Royal Statistical Society Christmas Quiz
- Replies: 64
- Views: 14310
Re: Royal Statistical Society Christmas Quiz
Ah, heh. Hopefully this now doesn't look like I was just trying a really blatant humblebrag (I think I have a weirdly strong familiarity with that particular song, although I've no idea why, and with all the really good spots in this thread I found the idea of being able to contribute a bit surprisi...
- Thu Jan 10, 2013 4:41 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Royal Statistical Society Christmas Quiz
- Replies: 64
- Views: 14310
Re: Royal Statistical Society Christmas Quiz
Maybe neither of you have said it explicitly because it's obvious, but surely the point is it's 76 trombones?
- Thu Jan 10, 2013 4:22 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday January 10th (Birthday Prelim 4)
- Replies: 48
- Views: 13901
Re: Spoilers for Thursday January 10th (Birthday Prelim 4)
Yep, cracking game, the early STOTTY set it up very nicely, although the 6 small pick really surprised me given apto-stats on it. I guess the plan was volaitility?
- Thu Jan 10, 2013 3:31 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday January 9th 2013 (Birthday Prelim 3)
- Replies: 58
- Views: 13305
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday January 9th 2013 (Birthday Prelim
Emailing the Daily Mail immediately.
- Thu Jan 10, 2013 3:01 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday January 10th (Birthday Prelim 4)
- Replies: 48
- Views: 13901
- Tue Jan 08, 2013 11:30 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown mentions on other shows
- Replies: 315
- Views: 153985
Re: Countdown mentions on other shows
I think the only way this thread could be made more exciting would be if we shared out stories of Countdown mentions on other quizzes. So here's tonight's exciting story: at our local pub quiz we were just asked for the first name of Lord Sugar's advisor who now presents the programme. Fun times.
- Tue Jan 08, 2013 4:30 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday January 8th 2013 (30th Prelim 2)
- Replies: 37
- Views: 6395
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday January 8th 2013 (30th Prelim 2)
Is this a good time to mention the predict-o-matic had Kelly down as favourite in this one?Mark Deeks wrote:The undertone (which is pretty overt to me) is, if you're not an Apterite, you're not a favourite.
- Tue Jan 08, 2013 1:57 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Royal Statistical Society Christmas Quiz
- Replies: 64
- Views: 14310
Re: Royal Statistical Society Christmas Quiz
It's an exciting surprise (by which I mean I'd rather wait until at least after the audition to mention it in public, given how jittery production people sometimes seem to get about secrecy).Bob De Caux wrote:Just those damn Olympians then... Why the revision? What's next on the Wallace Quiz Show tour?
- Tue Jan 08, 2013 1:45 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Royal Statistical Society Christmas Quiz
- Replies: 64
- Views: 14310
Re: Royal Statistical Society Christmas Quiz
Will keep you posted. It's an annoying gap, especially given that I've nailed the other 11 answers, and having the theme should make it relatively easy. Nevil Shute was only his pen name - I think Shute is his middle name, but his surname is Norway. Which is helpful Aha, awesome stuff (and reminds ...
- Tue Jan 08, 2013 1:09 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Royal Statistical Society Christmas Quiz
- Replies: 64
- Views: 14310
Re: Royal Statistical Society Christmas Quiz
I had a quick look when it first appeared, but never got around to sitting down and giving it a proper go. (I'm interested to see what the correct author is, because that's a pretty good fake-out.)Ian Volante wrote:Aye, found and discounted him.
Are you doing the quiz this year?