lieph82 wrote:I wonder if offering a fixed-point help option like taking the eleven gives an advantage to those who sign up later, who have a better idea of how many people will be participating. Perhaps a help that gives a number of points that is a function of the number of participants (20% of number of participants, or something like that) would be more fair.
I was one of the earlier sign-ups, and I was assuming that this would be like the last (and first) TD I was in, where even when I got the sheep, it was only worth 7 or 8, so I took the 11 on the question I thought I was likely to get wrong. I didn't consider using it on multiple questions because I thought it was against the rules.
On the Olympics question, I was considering Austria but thought more people would go for something more obscure and went with Netherlands. Wrong choice, of course.
Ordered alphabetically, name one of the first 11 songs in the canon of The Beatles, as released on studio albums or on Anthology. Leading articles ("A", "An") do NOT count as part of the title for purposes of this question (so "A Hard Day's Night" won't work).
For the curious among us. (At least I was.)
There are 4 songs in the canon of The Beatles that start with the leading article "A," while none start with "An."
Spoiler
A Taste of Honey
A Hard Day's Night
A Day in the Life
A Beginning (I wasn't familiar with this one. It's an instrumental lead-in that appears on Anthology 3.)
Name a company in the top 11 in terms of market capitalization of those based in the United States as of March 31, 2014. Market capitalization is the total value of the issued shares of a publicly traded company, and is often used as a proxy measure for the company's value.
In theory, the numbers should only go to eleven ... but these contestants far surpassed the field and picked some of the most obscure responses! Congrats to these fine players.
Thank you, Vermonter! Congrats to the podium finishers. Wow, esrever has won two TDs in a row! I wonder if anyone has won two or more of them in a row?
Thanks to Vermonter for one of the best TDs ever!!! Congratulations to esrever and cheezguyty.
I noticed that all 121 of the possible answers for Questions 1 through 11 were given by at least one player! Curiously, 11 of them were singletons (there goes that number 11 again!). I think it's highly unlikely to have all 121 possible answers given, considering that there were "only" 78 players. Maybe the statisticians or probability theorists could give their opinions.
nestegg wrote:I think it's highly unlikely to have all 121 possible answers given, considering that there were "only" 78 players. Maybe the statisticians or probability theorists could give their opinions.
Assuming all options are equally likely, and every player chooses one of the eleven, the probability that one goes unchosen in a given question is 0.06%: [10/11]^78.
Over 11 questions, the probability is 0.65%: 1 - [.9994^11].
nestegg wrote:I think it's highly unlikely to have all 121 possible answers given, considering that there were "only" 78 players. Maybe the statisticians or probability theorists could give their opinions.
Assuming all options are equally likely, and every player chooses one of the eleven, the probability that one goes unchosen in a given question is 0.06%: [10/11]^78.
Over 11 questions, the probability is 0.65%: 1 - [.9994^11].
Class, does that seem like a good assumption to make here ?
Of course, on this TD the questions were more accessible than most. It is surprising, though, that people got something like the #11 most followed twitter account...
A top 20 finish with 78 players? I'll take it. Plus I got a "+" a "-" and an "unch" along the way. Thanks for another fun TD game. Congrats to the top finishers.