Frequency lists for every quizbowl category!
Frequency lists for every quizbowl category!
Over the past few days, I wrote a program that finds the most common quizbowl answer lines, considering how NAQT sells this data for a hefty price in the form of "frequency lists". I give you Scuffed Lists! You can find the 100 most common tossups and their frequency per category here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/trka3fc15oa5 ... Wneca?dl=0
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Re: Frequency lists for every quizbowl category!
That's neat! One thing I noted -- sometimes, answerlines are counted twice in a list (for example, in Mythology you have Horus appearing twice, Hera appearing twice, Heracles appearing twice) because one answer has the answerline written with a space, and one does not. It might be worth sanitizing the data to check for that, since a doubled answerline might knock others off the visible list or an answerline might be fragmented between two entries and not appear.
Still, this is a cool resource for people who are just getting started in learning basic quizbowl stuff.
Still, this is a cool resource for people who are just getting started in learning basic quizbowl stuff.