I have had a spell or two in A and... it wasn't pleasant.
― Rich Valley Girl, Poor Valley Girl (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 June 2021 16:33 (three years ago) link
I have a below-par Qpct for my A rundle but I tend to claim enough match wins and 9(6)s per season to finish somewhere in the third quartile, so long as I don’t forfeit.
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Saturday, 19 June 2021 18:04 (three years ago) link
another solidly middle of the road C season for me. average among the obsessives, that's me.
― Rich Valley Girl, Poor Valley Girl (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 June 2021 18:10 (three years ago) link
my A rundle appears to be among the very easiest around, which is fine with me
― mookieproof, Saturday, 19 June 2021 18:21 (three years ago) link
My B rundle is 35-32-32-32-31-31-30 at the top, promotion placings bolded, my points italicized, so I appear to have an outside chance of the privilege of spending the next season in relegation agony rather than promotion hopefulness.
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 19 June 2021 21:55 (three years ago) link
Heh, I swear my drunken 2.58 m high-jump simile of two days ago was written without knowledge of this: Rich guy beats Vishy Anand in chess game, latter takes it well; eyebrows in chess community are raised; rich guy is found to have cheated, rich guy then (but not before) pretty much tweets OF COURSE i cheated: It is ridiculous that so many are thinking that I really beat Vishy sir in a chess game, that is almost like me waking up and winning a 100mt race with Usain Bolt.
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 19 June 2021 23:39 (three years ago) link
the person leading the whole thing this season has gotten 128 right and 4 wrongis it petty of me to be skeptical
is it petty of me to be skeptical
absolutely not, and i assure you that many other people have noticed this dude; i sure can't wait to see what he puts up in the LLRC
― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Sunday, 20 June 2021 07:21 (three years ago) link
LLRC?
― Rich Valley Girl, Poor Valley Girl (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 June 2021 11:25 (three years ago) link
learnedleague rundle championship, sorry
― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Sunday, 20 June 2021 14:20 (three years ago) link
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.
― BABA BUOY (Leee), Sunday, 20 June 2021 16:39 (three years ago) link
Only one other, it seems? The leaguewide TCA leaders (all leagues, all rundles) have these scores out of 150:
146146142141141141141141140140140140140then 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.
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 09:00 (three years ago) link
looks like i'm heading back down to C next season :/
― na (NA), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 14:37 (three years ago) link
this was a tough season for me
― na (NA), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 14:38 (three years ago) link
Sorry, dude. I managed to avoid relegation with a final-day 9(6), whew.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 14:42 (three years ago) link
You and me both, na.
― Rich Valley Girl, Poor Valley Girl (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 14:52 (three years ago) link
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
― na (NA), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 15:19 (three years ago) link
I won my rundle for the second consecutive year, in both instances primarily due to good (i.e. lucky) defense. It's a dynasty!
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 15:30 (three years ago) link
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!
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 17:00 (three years ago) link
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
― Rich Valley Girl, Poor Valley Girl (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 17:07 (three years ago) link
maybe but the questions also did seem harder this season
― na (NA), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 17:09 (three years ago) link
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.
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 17:26 (three years ago) link
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.
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 17:27 (three years ago) link
won my first ‘trophy’ with an .844 DE
it’ll probably be like .600 next season
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 19:01 (three years ago) link
mazel tov, well played
― burly crafty woodsman (James Harden) vs tall ethereal phantom (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 16:04 (three years ago) link
Only two of us doing opera?
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 July 2021 01:28 (three years ago) link
no chance i was touching that. i probably know more about the web browser than i do the artistic medium
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Friday, 2 July 2021 20:53 (three years ago) link
I submitted two 1DSes late today and got credit for neither. Oh well, not going to sweat it.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 July 2021 20:59 (three years ago) link
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.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 July 2021 21:07 (three years ago) link
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.
― BABA BUOY (Leee), Friday, 2 July 2021 22:16 (three years ago) link
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.)
― jaymc, Saturday, 3 July 2021 04:55 (three years ago) link
Yeah. It seemed like it had that, um, classic problem of being pretty easy to answer, hard to money.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 July 2021 13:43 (three years ago) link
The commish does not observe the holiday? Probably for the best
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 July 2021 17:15 (three years ago) link
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.
― Gemini Cricket (Leee), Monday, 5 July 2021 22:55 (three years ago) link
Enjoying the Opera ML, Mystery Themes not so much.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 July 2021 15:01 (three years ago) link
same today
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 July 2021 04:25 (three years ago) link
I finally got the theme on MD3, but yeah, this ML is proving kind of unpopular.
― Gemini Cricket (Leee), Thursday, 8 July 2021 13:02 (three years ago) link
That's how I feel too even though I'm getting crushed in the Opera ML and doing fine in Mystery Themes.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Thursday, 8 July 2021 13:43 (three years ago) link
Meaning you are enjoying Opera more?
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 July 2021 15:16 (three years ago) link
Also don’t think you are doing as badly as you say
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 July 2021 15:19 (three years ago) link
90th %ile in the Thorsten Sandiego 1DS!
― Gemini Cricket (Leee), Thursday, 8 July 2021 20:01 (three years ago) link
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.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Thursday, 8 July 2021 20:32 (three years ago) link
Here to highly recommend You Probably Think This Song Is About You, which I playtested.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 July 2021 06:46 (three years ago) link
There's a Cephalopod 1D too, which I'm sure a few players here would enjoy.
― Gemini Cricket (Leee), Monday, 12 July 2021 20:51 (three years ago) link
yeah, i played that and the silver age comic one today with better luck than usual
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Monday, 12 July 2021 20:52 (three years ago) link
i got in the top 10% for the roger corman one-day
― na (NA), Monday, 12 July 2021 20:53 (three years ago) link
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.
― jaymc, Monday, 12 July 2021 21:11 (three years ago) link
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!
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 July 2021 12:13 (three years ago) link
I ran into him at the cheese shop, which is three blocks away and in which he does not live.
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 July 2021 12:17 (three years ago) link
I would
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Friday, 16 July 2021 17:19 (three years ago) link
Live in a cheese shop? Are you a mouse, silby?
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 July 2021 17:45 (three years ago) link