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1st of all, no one is insinuating that there's anything sinister going on, and a list of my rejected questions was only used to reveal its cardinality. 2nd of all, I don't need to receive an argument on behalf of ACF as previously posted, just a list of questions rejected and outcomes, something as ...

I still fail to comprehend why questions that were entirely taken out (as opposed to being edited), cannot be attached at the end of the packet for purposes of having extra questions or for people around the country to see. For example, this would apply to my TUs on Saint Joan, Adonais, Raskolnikov,...

(Incidentally, for whatever it's worth Ray, being as "Adonais" is the 3rd-5th best-known poem from the 3rd-5th best-known Romantic poet, I don't think your particular example's a good one. Note that "Tintern Abbey" and "Kubla Khan," the best-known poems of slightly bet...

But if you have too many questions with a person's name as the answer, the TUs become uniform in format and we lose the diversity of answer categories. I thought that "Adonais" for example, would have been fine w/o being replaced, b/c if people always here about Shelley, they will have hea...

I want to echo Jordan's sentiments. My best questions were taken out, but that's to be expected in a large tournament. I don't think difficulty had anything to do with it since we heard "Bertram" and "Glass" in Matt's packet. Therefore, "Snows of Kilimanjaro," "Sai...

It seems Indian myth appears more in standard (e.g. ACF) packets than it is represented in the distr above, more about the same as Norse it appears, but may be that's just due to my preference for Indian questions in general.

Ray.

(Well, I'm not a med student, but I'm in a neuroscience Ph. D. program, so I don't know if I'm totally qualified in saying that Henderson-Hasselbalch is just basically the definition of pKa for an acid rearranged. I think I've heard the blood clue once, but I'm not sure if it's really indicative of ...

Come to think of it, but last suggestion is not so good. All I can come up with is that using that very simple formula, you'd actually buzz in earlier in a 1 on 1 game if you can score well on bonuses, b/c the bonus is worth taking the risk for. One should take other teammates, difficulty of questio...

Dwight, I don't get the same answer as you. Assuming 1 on 1 game, and the fact that I don't care about the future, i.e. even though I have more clues coming, I just want to buzz now (which is essentially what you're assuming), I'd buzz when the expected gain > 0: P_t(10 + BC1) - (1-P_t)(5 + 10 + BC2...

Another justification for using the Kohan index. If you're scoring one tossup for every neg, then you're not really doing that well, but your PPG will always be positive, so you're making a positive contribution to the team? With the Kohan index, we make sure to tell you that, no, you're probly not,...

(Finally, for fellow ex-Berkeleyites, does using the Kohan index mean that Selene Koo was the greatest QB player ever?) Ray. "Was"? Was for a while, then you came along. Was that what I was implying? I mean, is that? BTW just an anecdote, the Kohan terminology comes from a certain Berkele...

I guess the cool part about Jerry's idea is that you could calculate these stats for every pair of players on your club, then decide how to field a team. You'd just minimize the total amt of shadowing for every pair in your group of four. Any how, here're the IO standings for the top 8, based on the...

Getting back to Paul's slope coefficient idea. Do you think it overemphasizes complacency? I mean, to get a positive slope, you could also just do poorly against the worst teams. I know I tend to do this, just b/c I don't feel like I have to perform very well for us to win those games, and sometimes...

Ray's Kohan index would equate a player who goes 5-2 (50-30=20) in one round with one who goes 2-0 (20-0=20). However, getting five questions is much better than getting two, even with 10 points lost with the negs plus whatever number of bonus points the other team got. Not ringing in equals not ge...

Jerry, there's no way to do easily that b/c it would require looking into what people got what post hoc. What are we looking for here? Given just what people got (TU) in particular games, we're looking for a statistic that measures how well they perform indep of competition. One way is just to multi...