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I was bored, so I aggregated nationals stats for the players in this league: Player HSNCT PPG/PACE PPG Team A: Budapest Control ---Total: 35.68 1. Rohan Achar, Solon High School, Solon, OH 35.68/--- 2. Matt Duchan, Chapel Hill High School, Chapel Hill, NC ---/--- 3. Ketan Jha, Walt Whitman High Scho...

Looking at the power stats that got posted in the other thread, a lot of the trash questions were the easiest of the tournament. If "older" trash is a way to keep that stuff in check or line it up closer to rewarding, like, intellectual curiosity, then I am pretty okay with that. Almost a...

Without much comment, since people don't seem to like it much when I include comments with my rankings, 1. Auburn 2. IMSA 3. Carbondale 4. Loyola 5. New Trier 6. Belvidere North 7. Stevenson---For three reasons. 1. They play a lot on the quizbowl circuit. 2. They have had a good coach who will help ...

If you switch the 1s and 3s, and make the top three teams in each bracket 1,2,3, then this would also maximize the chance of being able to start the finals a round earlier.

A1-B1, A2-C2, B3-C3, A3-B2, C1 free A1-C1, B2-C2, A3-B3, A2-C3, B1 free B1-C1, A2-B2, A3-C3, B3-C2, A1 free A1-B2, B3-C1, A3-C2, B1-C3, A2 free A1-C3, A2-B3, B1-C2, A3-C1, B2 free B2-C3, A2-C1, A3-B1, A1-B3, C2 free A1-C2, A2-B1, B2-C1, A3 free, B3 free, C3 free Where the As, Bs, and Cs were in the ...

Overall seems to only be playoffs and the one crossover game. However, stats here: http://results.scobo.net/SQBS.aspx?org= ... =standings do include everything.

I think you mean to say they have depth. I don't think Lisle has been fully tested yet since in Illinois, they're at least a tier below Carbondale, and more than a tier below IMSA, Ig, Loyola, OPRF, Stevenson, and Auburn. They almost never choke as favorites (to my knowledge, they've only lost to Ne...

I want to have 6/6 math with a 4/4 science subdistro.

The Bloomington regional appears to have 3 seeded teams (3,6, and 8), while the Springfield regional only has the 1 seed?

I just wanted to register my disappointment that the set was changed without notice after teams had already registered. Had I know that this tournament was to be played on a set that contains several novice-level packets, I would have considered not registering. I have no interest in playing any no...

...some answers weren't filled in... You mean alternate answers, right? It would be rather unfortunate if some of the questions didn't have answers. "FTP, name the first pink elephant elected president of the United States." No, actually, due to formatting answers very long names of works...

Quick Results: Glenwood A went 9-0 Champaign Centennial went 8-1 Springfield A went 7-2 Glenwood B went 6-3 Dunlap went 4-5 (lost two matches on tiebreakers to Champaign Centennial and Springfield B) Springfield B went 4-5 Bloomington A went 4-5 Bloomington Central Catholic went 2-7 Springfield C we...

How many first place votes did State College get?

Aaron Goldfein wrote:I view each "game" in the parallel bracket phase as the best attempt to decide who is the better of the two teams based on performance.

The best way to decide who is the better of two teams is to have them play a match.

Seven Lakes' defeat to both Auburn and Andrew Deveau, along with their close match to Stevenson, shows that Illinois is fielding some of the best teams in the nation. Congrats to Auburn for winning!

Auburn went 6-1, with a loss to Loyola. Stevenson went 5-2, with losses to Seven Lakes and Auburn Seven Lakes went 5-2, with losses to St. Ignatius and Auburn Loyola went 4-3, with losses to Stevenson, Seven Lakes, and IMSA Carbondale went 3-4, with losses to Auburn, Stevenson, Seven Lakes, and Loyo...

Sorry for not reading Abid's post carefully enough where he said that things might change. My example was outlandish, but it was only intended to be a simple but extreme example of the flaw that teams with a small number of tossups could have a high PPB. However, I don't understand why some people f...

A system is flawed if it would allow a mistake that extreme. It's unlikely that it could happen, but if it does, it would be the worst bracketing mistake in all of history. Other people have brought up more likely scenarios that would also result in mistakes.

What if a team converts one tossup total in the prelims, but 30s the bonus? They'd be 0-5, but wouldn't straight-up PPB put them in the highest bracket?

Would number of dead tossups per game be a useful measure to capture the breadth of a team's knowledge?

I would suggest being more clear about your word choice in the future, and not assigning arbitrary definitions to words. According to Merriam-Webster's, academic means things such as "based on formal study especially at an institution of higher learning" and "of, relating to, or asso...

The only comment I'm making on history is I think that pure history is deserving of 4/4, but the approximate 3/3 at this tournament is good considering that extra math is being added. a) Are reluctant to add in non-academic clues and end up with one-line buzzer beaters and incredibly easy questions....

I don't see the point of the debate on whether or not math is part of science. Math being science does not change anything about the questions. I do think that history is going to be shortchanged at this tournament, but not as much as people think, since RMP and Social Science are sometimes going to...

Tournaments that decide to use bouncebacks with a packet make it harder to compare PPB results to other mirrors around the country.

I'd be happy to staff this!

That set seems to have an odd set of tiebreakers. A modern-day Italian Opera singer isn't that easy, and I think it might be possible for someone to guess "Belgium" early on based on the house of burgundy clue, and then the other person guessing Spain. But that round looks to be an excepti...

Poaching quizbowlers and mathletes from other schools is what IMSA's all about! *sarcasm*

I want to say this tournament had the best math I've ever seen in quizbowl. Most questions were only got near the end, but that was more of a result of a lack of experience with good noncomp math. The math was at a level that should be where the good teams and players are at. If more people write ma...

I find that in most sports, people say that there'll be no good players anymore, or that a team is going downhill, every year when they lose their seniors. The replacement for them doesn't come as much from new freshman as it does from their current freshman, sophomores, and juniors improving.

Edward Elric wrote: I will be more impressed if they can get out of their sectional alive when they play WWS and NC.

I believe this statement was the reason Dayo Dankole posted "impressed now?" when IMSA got out of their sectional.

Moving Day wrote:But for 3 parts of a 5 part bonus (or aggregation thereof), Loyola would be going downstate, instead of New Trier. Would you call New Trier overrated, too?

New Trier wasn't #4 on the list that was made, Loyola was. Loyola was overrated as #4, New Trier was not overrated as not ranked.

I disliked the number of coaches who couldn't moderate well. I was captaining a fresh-soph team while the captain was with Varsity, and a coach/moderator refused to accept -6/5 as being equivalent to -1.2 (no preference was stated in the problem), actinides as being correct, 3/2 as being the same 1....

The results for Fresh-Soph were 1. IMSA 2. Mt. Carmel 3. Fremd 4. Stevenson I'm on the IMSA team, and even the math computational questions were pretty bad (though I guess someone from a math and science academy might notice this). There were too many tossups where you could predict when the critica...