Learned League

I just looked through a bunch of league leaders and I actually found 2 other players who have only missed 4 questions this season, which is also the second for both (one does have a forfeit loss, however). At the same time, the other more established players have all gotten fewer than a dozen wrong answers themselves. A Rundle problems.

Only one other, it seems? The leaguewide TCA leaders (all leagues, all rundles) have these scores out of 150:

146
146
142
141
141
141
141
141
140
140
140
140
140
then 139, 138 (times 5), 137 (times 11), 136 (times 3), 135 (times 13), 134 (times 14), and so on with quite a few people on each score.

Although looking closer, none of those two has a forfeit loss, so maybe something was done already. In any case, that four-point jump at the top stands out a bit, I must say.

looks like i'm heading back down to C next season :/

this was a tough season for me

Sorry, dude. I managed to avoid relegation with a final-day 9(6), whew.

You and me both, na.

i got a 7(5) on the last day! unfortunately my competitor got a 9(6)

it's ok, i think C is probably where i belong. i had a couple of good seasons (or rather, seasons that seemed heavier on my better topics) that bumped me up into B and kept me there for a bit, but i'm probably a C at heart

I won my rundle for the second consecutive year, in both instances primarily due to good (i.e. lucky) defense. It's a dynasty!

Uh, I obv forgot to account for the 0(F) in my last post above; seems guy #3 ended up with five errors.

Had a pretty bad final day; #7 in B probably about fair. :)

Wd justfanoe, and good luck in championship!

i got a 7(5) on the last day! unfortunately my competitor got a 9(6)

it's ok, i think C is probably where i belong. i had a couple of good seasons (or rather, seasons that seemed heavier on my better topics) that bumped me up into B and kept me there for a bit, but i'm probably a C at heart

maybe but the questions also did seem harder this season

I'm pretty sure that during the expansion era it got less competitive over time, by a vaguely statistical argument. Most players who join will be around the median strength, and the concentration of skilled players in the A rundles of the earliest leagues will be diluted out, giving more opportunity for people like yrs truly to float in the middle of an A rundle indefinitely despite a not very spectacular Qpct.

like, I assume each new league added didn't necessarily = the addition of 25 new players who are all as strong or stronger than every player already in an A rundle.

won my first ‘trophy’ with an .844 DE

it’ll probably be like .600 next season

mazel tov, well played

Only two of us doing opera?

no chance i was touching that. i probably know more about the web browser than i do the artistic medium

I submitted two 1DSes late today and got credit for neither. Oh well, not going to sweat it.

One was Irish Rock, where I only missed one. The other was Golden Spheres, where I very carefully did the calculation but forget it said diameter and not radius.

I got 7 right in Irish Rock and still ended up below the 50th %ile -- I'm kind of surprised the the Corrs question played relatively easy, as I had to dig really hard to remember their name.

I did better on the Bermanisms one though.

I had a hard time figuring out which questions to money in Irish Rock. Intellectually, I knew that I should money My Bloody Valentine (because indie) -- and if it were regular LL, I likely would've assigned it a 3 unless my opponent seemed particularly strong in popular music. But in the context of that 1DS, it just felt like a straight-ahead gimme. (By contrast, Bob Geldof *feels* more obscure to me, a name only old music nerds know. Ah well.)

Yeah. It seemed like it had that, um, classic problem of being pretty easy to answer, hard to money.

The commish does not observe the holiday? Probably for the best

I'm glad for it!

I did surprisingly well in Gluten-free, though I absolutely left points on the table there, and thought that Q12 (which I got correct and moneyed) would play harder.

Enjoying the Opera ML, Mystery Themes not so much.

same today

I finally got the theme on MD3, but yeah, this ML is proving kind of unpopular.

That's how I feel too even though I'm getting crushed in the Opera ML and doing fine in Mystery Themes.

Meaning you are enjoying Opera more?

Also don’t think you are doing as badly as you say

90th %ile in the Thorsten Sandiego 1DS!

Yes, I've been enjoying opera and not enjoying Mystery Themes.

I'm dead middle of the pack on Opera, which is about as I expected. I've been learning a lot though so it's been fun.

Here to highly recommend You Probably Think This Song Is About You, which I playtested.

There's a Cephalopod 1D too, which I'm sure a few players here would enjoy.

yeah, i played that and the silver age comic one today with better luck than usual

i got in the top 10% for the roger corman one-day

I didn't do very well on the first two days of Mystery Themes, but have been on a roll since then.

I haven't been paying much attention to the recent One-Days, apart from Irish Rock and US Campaign Finance.

Ran into a certain crossword editor who lives down the block at the cheese shop yesterday and found out he was a LLama as well. Noticed he had a Prince tattoo on his arm and today saw that his LL flag was a picture of Prince!

I ran into him at the cheese shop, which is three blocks away and in which he does not live.

I would

Live in a cheese shop? Are you a mouse, silby?

I would totally live in a cheese shop too.

not a furry I just think it's probably cold in there and there's lots of cheese

90% on cephalopods but only 68% on silver age comics, who even am i

Ha, that’s the way the LLAma fur, um breaks? Parts?

So there is a 1DS today about music, not about Biz Markie, no further comment.

I'm actually in second place in Mystery Themes, which is, placement-wise, the best I've ever done. I need to at least tie in the last match to go to the championship, though.

I was in 2nd for a long time but then dropped to 3rd in Opera, which spared me having to compete in the final.

Heh, the results for Our Band Could Be Your Life were as expected.

I see that I tied with our very own govern yourself accordingly. Looks like there were a lot of 12/12s on that own, so it came down to moneying even more than usual.