Learned League

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Anyone doing the Italy ML? I forgot to sign up. Just submitted answers on two 1DSs though.

I'm doing it. I have a weirdly hard time reintegrating the LL habit after a long break, though. Haven't really looked at any of the 1DSes from the past few days.

I hear you.

My first three Italy ML matches have all been ties, and my first Women's Sports ML match was a tie, too.

I guess the latter isn't surprising since the leaguewide get rates for that first set of questions was: 93%, 92%, 84%, 74%, 17%, 6%. I'm guessing a lot of people, like me and my opponent, went 4(4). We knew the easy questions and defended them appropriately.

That's exactly what happened in my match too.

Astronomy ML2 starts tomorrow. Ready, Silby? Ready, Greg?

Also here to street team for my friend's Aimee Mann 1DS.

Astronomy's not a strength of mine, so I don't anticipate doing particularly well in that ML, but I view it as a learning experience.

Same here.

Greg, you did the best of anyone I track in Just Audio Choral Music 2, just a hair out of Top 20%, kudos!

Not sure how I feel about Astronomy 2 yet. So far it's been reasonably interesting but can only imagine what will happen with it actually starts to get difficult according to the Smiths. (Style question: should Smith be capitalized or not?)

Been making unforced errors and now have two ties and a loss in Astronomy but still it’s an interesting topic and the ML seems okay.

Oh balls, I moneyed the wrong question in the Pynchon 1DS.

IHeh, sorry. I playtested that one so I avoided any situation like that.

Yup, exactly how I thought it'd play out: 72th %ile, could've gotten into the top 10% if I'd moneyed the Wittgenstein question (which I'd made a mental note to money).

Sorry. Funny how that happens.

Wow, some people doing really well in Worldwide History. I see at least two familiar names at first place in their respective groups.

i'm pissed at myself for slipping on one name on the comics in the 80's poll... woulda been my first 100%!

Wait, it's not due yet, so don't say too much.

Your comics finish was pretty respectable but yeah, I know how you feel, I think.

I named Peacemaker instead of the Question and then moneyed that question. Got everything else right and still finished at 70! dadgummit

Feel like it is more common than I expected to do things like that. I know I just did something like that recently and so did someone else I know.

Think maybe the worst thing is just to money too conservatively.

well that was my thinking and i figured that would be one most would miss. I just didn't think i would!

Starting to think there is some kind of penalty kick anxiety thing going on in these situations.

A case in point, except not quite: I confidently put and monied one incorrect answer in the Billy Wilder 1DS. According to the Me tab, even with that wrong answer, if I had monied differently I could have jumped from almost 300th place to the top ten.

Greg has done really well in some MLs recently. Anatole too.

anatole

Hmm. can't even see that strikeout in the e

Oh, one is still live. Sorry for potential jinx.

Letters with a horizontal middle do not strikeout too well (badly?), it's true.

More later, yes, but in the meantime: Thanks for noticing! :)

Sure! Hope you guys don’t mind me tracking. It is actually kind of a fun feature, to see how people are doing.

No prob whatsoever here.

Anyone go through periods where they feel less interested in the league? Any tips on getting through them?

I don’t care that much about regular season, kind of live for the off season. I did just subscribe to Yu Oughta Know, maybe that will help with something.

People who are way into it seem to be constantly doing other trivia events, for one thing.

I don’t care that much about regular season, kind of live for the off season.

Heh I'm pretty much the exact opposite.

Happy with most of the Worldwide History thing, though, apart from the Championship which turned out a bit of a calculated-risk disaster. (I figured I'd do some aggressive moneying, and dropped two out of five.)

I know Greg and at least one other person on this thread are doing various incarnations of OQL now - weird I'm probably going to come up against you guys (might have done so already!) without knowing it

One thing I do like about regular season is not having to worry about the midday deadlines.

I'm with anatol in greatly preferring the regular season. During the regular season, I usually look at the questions in the morning and think about them throughout the day, and check in on the message board to see what people are saying about the previous day's questions. I like the statistical component, how I can measure my performance against previous seasons and how each question contributes to my category stats. I like the fact that one person writes all the questions, and that everyone in LL is answering them.

In the off-season, even when I've signed up for mini-leagues, I sometimes have to remind myself to play, and I don't feel as invested. And some 1DSes have escaped my attention because I'm generally sort of checked out of LL. (I only did two this time around.) Which is not to say that I haven't enjoyed a fair number of MLs and 1Dses, but they just feel sort of marginal.

Yeah I've been enjoying OQL and the various other Zoom trivia games a lot more than LL recently. I did play all 4 ML's this offseason but didn't particularly like any of them except for the Italy one. I actually considered dropping LL entirely in favor of OQL and family, except that I do have a 1DS coming up this offseason, then the OQL Championship this summer so I guess I'll stick around at least through that.

Lots of melodica talk today.

I'm very surprised that Thorsten, who is so careful about avoiding controversy that he once issued a formal leaguewide apology for including a question about Pewdiepie, would have asked a question about Afrika Bambaataa (which I missed in probably my stupidest LL mistake ever - answering too early in the morning and put "Planet Funk" without thinking)

weird that it didn't mention kraftwerk but maybe that was too much of a gimme?

Last i checked i was three TCA behind the #1 in our rundle. But I'm #23. It's a bad season for me.

Familiar story – I'm only four TCA behind our #1 (80 vs 84), and am in 24th place out of 26.

The explanation is pretty obvious: unlucky opponent schedule. I'm in a clear lead in CAA (91; the next three have 89), while the leader is at the very bottom of the CAA list (67, next has 74!).

(that's Correct Answers Against, just to be entirely clear)

for some reason people are playing terrible defense against me this season, so i have 15 three-pointers in 19 matches. which goes a long way

Funny that the least motivated I've ever been has been the season that I'm doing the best in, having (temporarily) knocked out first place with a 9(6) to climb into second and being on pace to nearly match my best TCA. I've also been much luckier than I've been in seasons past.

I didn't know that about Bambaataa, on top of which I got it wrong (I always confuse the song with "The Message"); on a similar tip, I was debating between Momaday (whose autobiography I'd read) and Alexie and had known that the latter had gotten caught up in Me Too, but being so much better known figured that he had to be the right answer, and maybe Thorsten didn't know about the allegations.

Second place right now but judging purely on the TCA of my remaining opponents I have the toughest schedule.

Mired in exciting relegation battle: am at #23, remaining opponents are #25, #26, #13. Will not be at all disheartened if I go down, I'm happy as long as I keep the level of A/B yo-yo.