Learned League

Some other useful links:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-coolest-weirdest-internet-community-youll-never-be-able-to-join/2014/08/20/3c3f565e-26eb-11e4-958c-268a320a60ce_story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/magazine/letter-of-recommendation-learned-league.html

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mick-mulvaney-learned-league-trivia_n_5c941573e4b0a6329e147a61

Thanks

3 of 6 correct today, 2 that i kinda thought i coulda got right and 1 that was just no chance at all

Hey don’t post about questions until the results are in, even obliquely! You don’t know who’s submitted yet.

well sure, but how is saying what i think i got right by the numbers revealing anything?

I’m sure there is some ruling from the Commissioner on this on the site, pro or con.

i challenge jaymc to 'smith' a one-day about ilx

forks if I were to know you intimately I could derive third-order insight into the answers by analyzing how well you thought you did, imo. Best to avoid even the appearance of etc.

Makes sense

i've been doing learned league for a few years on an invite from jaymc. i'm in C rundle, which seems to be about right since i almost always end up right in the middle of the rankings at the end of each season. i've had a strong start to this season so far but i'm sure i'll hit a rut and end up back in the middle again.

my ongoing minor issue with the main learned league is the "classical music" category, which seems very specific for a stand-alone category (that i suck at). i wish they just had a "music" category that spanned all genres.

silby OTM about not posting *anything* about a Match Day until it's over

U guys are playing 3D chess but whatever works is fine. Meet you back here at 1 in the morning to discuss.

I can't immediately find anything from the Commissioner about this, though it is a widely accepted norm within the LL community. On the LL board, whenever anyone posts even the most innocuous thing about a question while the Match Day is live, the post gets deleted.

Also, here's someone in a Learned League thread on the Jeopardy! message board:

With the new season and new players, it is a good time to remind everyone of the rule about discussing matches on this board. Please do not make any comment about the questions until that day's results have been posted on the LL board. Do not say how many you got right or wrong. Do not say if you thought they were hard or easy. Just do not say anything at all about the questions until the LL day has ended and the next day's questions are up.

As extreme as it may seem, I think it makes sense to stick with that rule here, too.

Oh, it's also in WestJ's LL84 welcome post:

Please remember, do not post anything here or elsewhere about any LL questions while a match day is underway. Not with a spoiler warning, not with oblique references, not asking if a question has an error in it, not anything. Period.

Well it's tomorrow now and I can reveal the secret that a plurality LL'ers are not fans of Bhad Bhabie

Haha. That was actually my route in, and I almost thought the answer was "Bad" until I remembered that "Suge" was the name of a song by Da Baby.

I lost 8(5)-7(5). Always disappointing to get the same number of questions right but lose on defense.

I am averaging about three right per game, but in the rookie league with some judicious defense, that seems to be enough to stay fairly competitive.

damn i almost missed this thread. u can find me having terrible defense to start, i'm 2-2 :/ i'm usually decent on defense? but i have been getting steadily worse somehow season over season. idk why.

also there was a thread but like a fool i smushed the words together LearnedLeague - any iLLx0rs out there?

i was gonna give a cryptic clue to my name since i don't like saying it on here (i mean i guess it's already too late to run for office due to my history on this site, i would guess) but then i realized i put it in the other thread so go look there!

also yes i haven't used an invite in ages so if anyone needs, hit silby up and then hit me up

and i 100% got that q yesterday on account of bhad bhabie (almost went with lil on account of yes indeed, until i read closer lol) (also i feel like lil was a question super recently???)

and yeah esp if this is a public board, no talk on today's results is always a good move. also no talking abt the random comedians u found and you're like "wow no way they're just like me!" and you sometimes check in to see what they got. its bad form

Completely new to this, but really like the idea. It seems like it's too late to join this season--is that correct?

yeah you have to join in between seasons

or you might be able to join but you wouldn't be able to play this season.

also no talking abt the random comedians u found and you're like "wow no way they're just like me!" and you sometimes check in to see what they got. its bad form

What about high-ranking White House officials

I too would like to join! Will M, silby, or any other kind ilxor have a spare invite?

theo von is a beast at learned league guys

Oh wait $30 for membership, gotta think about this.

What about high-ranking White House officials

Actually, I am going to answer my own post and note that the Commish has laid down the law about this, so I am going to respect that decision, but I still find the whole thing amazing sometimes.

@Leee: You only have to pay after you've completed a full rookie season, so you can try it out and decide if you like it. I have plenty of invites to spare, too.

can one of you kind individuals send me an invite, please? ilx webmail reaches me :)

Ah ok, that sounds reasonable. You can ilx mail me, and thanks!

Suge was one of the year’s biggest rap hits; surprised that didn’t give away that clue. I guess people aren’t much listening to that world unless they are specialists.

the 30 also covers a full year, which is i believe 3 or 4 seasons, so if you like the first season you're not paying too much to keep going!

i don't see where to send invites tho, is it possible to do so during the season or do we have to wait a month?

also if we have this many ppl i am definitely thinking ilxor private rundle next go around

Okay, I just looked, and you can only give out 1 invite per season (unless you are a Premier or Commissioner's Circle member). Pretty sure there were more at one point, but I don't blame Thorsten for wanting to put some controls on growth.

I'll give mine to you, Leee, since we've actually met IRL!

Oh, and Will, the referral page is here:
https://www.learnedleague.com/thorsten/referral.php

if my quick scan is right, leee, unctious, and jim want invites? and jaymc has leee? so i will send one to Unc & someone else get jim? (lmk if i missed any. i am so tired rn)

Unc contacted me, I will take care of ‘em

ok jim i'll send you a message then!

Why the low get rate on Q4 yesterday, Charles Pathé? This was the flaw in my defense, since I thought everybody must know this, especially an opponent with .761 in Film so assigned it a zero, allowing him to tie me 4(4)-4(3). Note: really don’t care that much, long ago gave up agonizing on defense, valuing speed over accuracy, having long ago settled down into C Rundle, most of my enjoyment now coming from the occasional 1DS or ML.

HI DERE

Also I was in the 6% who put Friendly instead of Howard Johnson the other day.

I got it right, but I wasn't 100% sure about it.

(Pathé, that is.)

I have found the less I overthink defense and the more I just go with my gut, the better my defensive performance is. I have never heard of Charles Pathé before, even after seeing the answer it is totally unfamiliar to me and my lifetime film score is .776

dang, i somehow got to 5 and 0. pride goeth before a fall, i imagine i'm gonna get ganked now.

for every music nerd who's like "i'm surprised hardly anyone got this question about dababy" there's a math dork who's like "i'm surprised hardly anyone got this question about fundamental calculus concepts" etc. also "why did everyone else get this question wrong that i got right" inevitably comes off as bragging

on defense, i think 'age of opponent' is probably a more important factor than any particular subject percentage

lol, i seem to keep hitting the "most common wrong answer;" would not have thought a third of the missing group would've also gone with cornet!

also, i learned something on the "massif" question but holy shit are some of these questions ever posed in the most convoluted way possible

If my math is right, I think I clinched promotion?! I better prepare myself emotionally to getting murdered in A in a few months!

Congrats! I look forward to facing you next season.

I'm not sure I share your enthusiasm lol.

Lol

Hope most of you got the Gullah/Geechee question.

I just looked up jaymc's branch and noticed that B's winner is another referral. And ugh, I'm going to have to play them again next season lol.

Blame yourself: He was referred by the person you referred. :)

lol

How did everyone's seasons turn out? After finding myself in 1st place midway through the season, I lost 6 of the last 7 matches, winding up in 11th with a record of 11-11-3. This feels like my natural place in the order of things.

But I did finish 1st in LL98, so I'll be playing in the championship later this summer.

my season was rough, as mentioned above. i had a lot of bad/unlucky defense days, and the rare days where i did reasonably well (ie 4-5 questions right) i would inevitably tie instead of win. i finally had a good win on the penultimate day that briefly pushed me out of the relegation range but then i'm pretty sure my loss on the last day pushed me back down. it didn't seem like a harder season in terms of questions, but maybe i was less focused than usual.

That's rough luck, NA -- I only had 3 more CA than you but 8 fewer TCAs despite being in B.

So yeah, going to A next season, but I've been stewing in some self-loathing for fumbling in the last MD because I desperately want to break 100 TCA, and for the second season in a row I've finished at 99.

Also:

Blame yourself: He was referred by the person you referred. :)

lol whooooops

Rough-ish season, finishing in the last place above relegation – but somehow I always had enough points' margin that it never really got sweaty. Happy to have avoided the yoyoing for a few seasons.

Don't forget to submit on the first day of the Film Production ML if you signed up for it.

Also, check out the Fab Food 1DS to see if it's for you.

And Just Audio In a World

Just had the pleasure of being schooled by Greg and company in OQL!

Hope people got to play the JI UWS -- clever idea, well-executed!

that one looked fun, but I didn't have time for it.

I am surprised at how well I am doing in the California ML for someone who has never lived there.

LOL you're in first while I, a lifelong Californian, am only in 3rd.

Good match, Lee!

Potassium was a guess for me, but it felt right.

Thanks, for that question I realize that I've only ever read up on composting and not fertilizers, so instead went with carbon. I was a little surprised to see that you missed the French question, though I may have fallen into the "If I know it, most people know it" trap?

Yes that trap is an extremely common one, for me anyway.

I have heard of the title dauphin, but would not have been able to tell you what it referred to. I figured the answer had to be "Prince of" something, which I completed with "Versailles."

So TIMOTHY and especially MARAT/SADE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZXI9RJSgok

Times when YouTube comes in handy, even if prevents one from reaching the lofty intellectual heights of some other posters.

I have heard of the title dauphin, but would not have been able to tell you what it referred to. I figured the answer had to be "Prince of" something, which I completed with "Versailles."

― jaymc, Friday, September 6, 2024 4:43 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

wouldn't have known this if it weren't for the adventures of huckleberry finn

i was just looking at ‘the aesthetics of resistance’ on monday night and had not previously known anything at all about peter weiss!

did not get timothy tho

Not sure how I knew timothy, tbh -- I went through some men's names and it vaguely rang a bell.

Ended up with a Buckner tie, 5(4)-5(2), because I assigned my opponent a 0 on multitudes (second-easiest question of the day), a 1 on Antarctica (easiest question of the day), and a 1 on Marat/Sade (he has a .781 in Theatre), and he missed all of them, but got the Spain and golf questions right.

That's quite a coincidence, because I got 3 for multitudes, and my opponent missed it despite a 0.600+ Literature score. And today's opponent, with a Literature score in the high 0.800s, also missed it. Meanwhile, the entirety of our rundle went 84% on it.

never heard of timothy grass in my life

i have heard of marat/sade but would never have pulled it

i did feel slightly dumb for not getting dauphin once i saw the answer but again i doubt i ever would have remembered it

Timothy Grass famous IRA informant iirc.

Informer ever

Even

I picked a great season to get 3 9(6)s (matches my career best).

from the LL message board, it always seemed like this guy had a big chip on his shoulder, but wow:

https://slate.com/culture/2024/09/jeopardy-champions-episodes-yogesh-raut.html

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I knew a little bit but hadn’t read that much. Not gonna click on his blog, that’s for sure.

I've encountered him several times over the years, suffice to say I defriended him on Facebook quite some time ago and he's generally edged himself out to the furthest fringes of the bits of the international quiz community I frequent.