A week of games against Andrew Fisher was always going to be exceptionally tough, but I surprised myself with my results: Three solid wins, and one of the losses by but a single point. The very unexpected aspect (which contributed significantly to these results) is that I managed to outpoint Andrew on nine of the letters games, only two of those due to invalid word choices on his part (although a third invalid choice coincided with a longer word from me); in contrast I was only outpointed five times with no invalid words.
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri |
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| Me | 72 | 36 | 69 | 73 | 58 |
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| Champion | 39 | 57 | 48 | 44 | 59 |
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| Challenger | 35 | 22 | 16 | 10 | 20 |
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| David + Lily | 77 | 71 | 75 | 89 | 76 |
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| Me (solo) | 72 | 56 | 74 | 87 | 64 |
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Andrew completed his run and successfully retired with a phenomenal aggregate of 415 points, an average of just under 70 points a game. Fantastic stuff!
| Andrew Fisher | 95 | 63 | 64 | 67 | 67 | 59 | 415 |
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| Chris Scholten-Smith | 45 | 47 | 48 | 47 | 38 | 40 | 265 |
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| Aaron Tyrrell | 51 | 35 | 61 | 18 | | | 165 |
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| Sudesh Piyatissa | 37 | 57 | 34 | | | | 128 |
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| Stephen Farrelly | 26 | 30 | 30 | | | | 86 |
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| Rob York | 52 | 42 | | | | | 94 |
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A couple of full monties this week, both of which I was very happy to spot. There was an impossible numbers game on Tuesday, which I was somewhat less happy about. *chuckles*
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | |
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| Full Monties | | | 1 | 1 | | 2 |
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| Missed Full Monties | | | | | | 0 |
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| Tough Numbers | | | | | | 0 |
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| Impossible Numbers | | 1 | | |
| 1 |
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I had some early troubles with the numbers, but settled down for the latter half of the week. The letters results were generally strong for a pretty good run. If COMEDIAS (see
episode 18) is considered valid then Wednesday's result should be decreased by one.
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri |
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| Maximums: L | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
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| N | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
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| C | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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Contestants sorted by average score:
| Total | Games | Average |
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| Andrew Fisher | 415 | 6 | 69.17 |
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| Rob York | 94 | 2 | 47.00 |
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| Chris Scholten-Smith | 265 | 6 | 44.17 |
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| Sudesh Piyatissa | 128 | 3 | 42.67 |
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| Aaron Tyrell | 165 | 4 | 41.25 |
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| Tanya Ithier | 41 | 1 | 41.00 |
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| Chaitanya Rao | 38 | 1 | 38.00 |
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| Jason Stockdale | 37 | 1 | 37.00 |
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| Lara Cassar | 35 | 1 | 35.00 |
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| Andrew Patterson | 35 | 1 | 35.00 |
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| Elaine Miles | 33 | 1 | 33.00 |
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| Jenny Blair | 33 | 1 | 33.00 |
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| Alexis Harley | 32 | 1 | 32.00 |
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| Alan Stewart | 29 | 1 | 29.00 |
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| Adib Surani | 29 | 1 | 29.00 |
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| Stephen Farrelly | 86 | 3 | 28.67 |
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| Helen Robinson | 27 | 1 | 27.00 |
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| Michael Gin | 25 | 1 | 25.00 |
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| Les Ramsay | 25 | 1 | 25.00 |
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| Jane Cleary | 23 | 1 | 23.00 |
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| Nick Taubert | 19 | 1 | 19.00 |
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| Dawn Tuftan | 15 | 1 | 15.00 |
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2 comments:
Blogger did not work with my previous comment so here's another go.
Geoff, well done as usual, particularly against Andrew Fisher.
Given your experience on the show, is it easier to perform better at home compared to the lights, cameras and pressure of the studio?
In the first table, what is the difference in how you calculate Me and Me Solo?
That same table also indicates how consistently the team of Lily and David outscore the contestants, and what a loss the show is.
I notice that on the the L and N site, after all these weeks since the announcement, episode comments are still consistently pleas for the show to be brought back rather than say alternative maths calculations etc.
Thanks, Mike. It's definitely easier to perform in the more comfortable environment of home, at least for me. That said, the lights/cameras/audience did not bother me (that I recall) when I was on the show; however, the difference in pressure is clearly great -- even though I compete against the contestants and everyone else here, further play does not hinge on success or failure. It's impossible to quantify the difference that makes, but I believe it is significant.
(Part of that "nothing on the line" approach is that I can risk a little more, and on the whole that has been paying off.)
In the first table, the top section has the scores for the three-cornered game where only the best result(s) will score. Often this means that contestant scores are less than on the show due to me finding a better answer on some round. Similarly, I may not have scored points on some round due to a contestant finding a better answer (or getting to the conundrum first).
The bottom section of that table has the solo totals for the David and Lily combination and myself. These are scores taken in isolation, by just adding up the results gained in each round, no matter if someone had a better one.
For instance, on Thursday's game my solo total was 14 points greater than my game total, due to Andrew's finds of COGNATES and GLADIATE beating my BEACONS and OTALGIA. Tuesday's game had an even larger difference of 20 points due to similar circumstances, but I also flubbed a numbers round.
I only list solo totals for David and Lily instead of trying a head-to-head comparison as they are generally too good, and I'm interested in just how close I can get. (Also, often it's not clear if they have actually found a particular answer supplied by the contestants; although I assume that they have for the purposes of solo scoring unless otherwise noted, I'm pretty sure that a couple of times this has not been the case.)
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