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Re: LL Season 91

Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2021 12:59 pm
by Volante
This Is Kirk! wrote: Fri Dec 17, 2021 12:45 pm
RandyG wrote: Fri Dec 17, 2021 12:00 pm
This Is Kirk! wrote: Fri Dec 17, 2021 11:43 am Aren't you required to be paid up before the new season starts if your membership expires during that season?
Don't know the answer to that. Thorsten may allow a grace period, given that a season is only a few weeks long, and certainly the player would be given notices to re-up once the membership lapsed. Seems like a pretty big coincidence that the player went inactive as soon as the season ended. If something nefarious was judged, then the player would have been terminated and the standings adjusted immediately. I think a few years ago I was in a rundle where a player was terminated mid-season and the standings were adjusted.
Yeah, I agree. Your explanation certainly seems to make the most sense. I'm confident you can't begin a new season without being paid up, but not sure about what happens if your membership lapses mid-season.
Membership can't lapse during the season though...? If you're paid up in time to participate for the season, you're good for that whole season.

https://learnedleague.com/membercenter.php
A quarter begins with an LL season, followed by offseason events (MiniLeagues and One-Days). The quarter officially begins when registration ends for the quarter's LL season, and ends at the registration deadline for the next season. Memberships expire at the registration deadline, so members who are not current with dues will not be able to participate in the LL season.

Re: LL Season 91

Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2021 1:36 pm
by mennoknight
back to B Taiga - my rightful and true place. It's probably just me, but I have significantly less fun in A. I have no desire to be the top of that rundle, or even stay in there.

Re: LL Season 91

Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2021 3:16 pm
by alietr
The lucky/unlucky rankings are up:

https://learnedleague.com/viewtopic.php ... 81#p248510

I was 21,887th lucky out of 25,079 (13th %ile). So yeah, it was a tough season.

Re: LL Season 91

Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2021 3:48 pm
by Woof
alietr wrote: Fri Dec 17, 2021 3:16 pm The lucky/unlucky rankings are up:

https://learnedleague.com/viewtopic.php ... 81#p248510

I was 21,887th lucky out of 25,079 (13th %ile). So yeah, it was a tough season.
I find it highly amusing that MeyerT and GroceV are considered the 54th and 55th luckiest LLamas this past season. Yesh, if luck means that you know the answer to every question, then I guess that's luck....

Re: LL Season 91

Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2021 4:20 pm
by Volante
mennoknight wrote: Fri Dec 17, 2021 1:36 pm back to B Taiga - my rightful and true place. It's probably just me, but I have significantly less fun in A. I have no desire to be the top of that rundle, or even stay in there.
Nah, same. As a (possible?) fellow AAAA leaguer, it's nice to be called up, but after a few seasons facing Kershaw, Hendricks, deGrom and hoping they make mistakes...it gets draining. (I would like 8 more A wins tho...)

Re: LL Season 91

Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2021 10:33 pm
by econgator
alietr wrote: Fri Dec 17, 2021 3:16 pm The lucky/unlucky rankings are up:

https://learnedleague.com/viewtopic.php ... 81#p248510

I was 21,887th lucky out of 25,079 (13th %ile). So yeah, it was a tough season.
Had me beat. I was 17,800-ish.

Re: LL Season 91

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2021 11:55 am
by Blue Lion
Volante wrote: Fri Dec 17, 2021 4:20 pm
mennoknight wrote: Fri Dec 17, 2021 1:36 pm back to B Taiga - my rightful and true place. It's probably just me, but I have significantly less fun in A. I have no desire to be the top of that rundle, or even stay in there.
Nah, same. As a (possible?) fellow AAAA leaguer, it's nice to be called up, but after a few seasons facing Kershaw, Hendricks, deGrom and hoping they make mistakes...it gets draining. (I would like 8 more A wins tho...)
Love the baseball analogy!

Re: LL Season 91

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2021 12:50 pm
by morbeedo
mennoknight wrote: Fri Dec 17, 2021 1:36 pm back to B Taiga - my rightful and true place. It's probably just me, but I have significantly less fun in A. I have no desire to be the top of that rundle, or even stay in there.
We missed you :)

Re: LL Season 91

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2021 8:07 pm
by jjwaymee
bluejaylink wrote: Thu Dec 16, 2021 10:25 pm So the person who got the most correct answers this season suddenly has an inactive account.

Cheating scandal?
The only question she missed in the Midseason Classic was the one that you had no realistic way of Googling. I'm not sayin', but I'm just sayin'.

Re: LL Season 91

Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2022 9:20 pm
by ouachiouat
Italy G 64, Women in Sports G59 (with a certain FrumkinJ).

Also, my hometown that I lived in until I was 18 is mentioned in the intro to the Ohio cities / counties 1DS! So that was exciting to see when I first opened it.

Re: LL Season 91

Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2022 1:15 am
by bluejaylink
Whoops, didn't realize the mini-leagues had started.

Hopefully my submission 11 minutes after the deadline still counts lol!

Re: LL Season 91

Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2022 4:14 pm
by seaborgium
In the "You" 1DS, I got 10 right and finished in 69th, even with a money on an incorrect response. The last question was basically "name a number from 1 to 5, most popular is correct"; I decided to take a flyer on that one, and it didn't pay off. Even if it had, there was still a better moneying choice, and I could have finished in fourth place even without guessing the "right" number. But I'm still proud of myself for correctly guessing the Italian author and aggressively moneying that (it turned out to have played the hardest).

Re: LL Season 91

Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2022 11:28 am
by morbeedo
Being half-Italian American hasn’t really helped in the Italy ML, just like 9 years of Catholic school hasn’t translated to success with Jeopardy Bible content ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Re: LL Season 91

Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2022 10:01 am
by Blue Lion
Does LL have an award for egregiously bad defense in a match? Yesterday, in the Italy mini-league, I lost 4(4)-5(2). That performance is worthy of former Lions' coach Matt Patricia.

Re: LL Season 91

Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2022 10:36 am
by twelvefootboy
Blue Lion wrote: Thu Jan 20, 2022 10:01 am Does LL have an award for egregiously bad defense in a match? Yesterday, in the Italy mini-league, I lost 4(4)-5(2). That performance is worthy of former Lions' coach Matt Patricia.
From the LL glossary:
Buckner
(n.) Paying homage to the end of Game 6 of the 1986 World Series, a Buckner is an incident in which a player gets two more questions correct than their opponent, and still loses the match. Buckner as a noun refers to the incident itself, and can be used by both the winner and the loser to describe it.
I thought I had no chance because I only got one question right, but I won on a buckner.

I lost yesterday on a buckner — that’s the last time I ever submit answers without looking at my opponent’s Player Data chart!

(v.) To get two more questions correct but still lose the match. Invariably due to catastrophically bad defense.
I was excited about getting five questions right today, until I found out I had bucknered.


The Buckner wins and losses show up on your personal records stats :). But I don't think any ML's or 1DS stats show up there :).

Sorry about your Lions. I am a closet fan of the Lions and the Jets. :roll:

Re: LL Season 91

Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2022 4:20 pm
by MinnesotaMyron
One day I'll stop mixing up Asphalt Jungle and Blackboard Jungle, but today is not that day.

Re: LL Season 91

Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2022 9:54 am
by Volante
Astronomy (2) ML time! *dance, dance*

Re: LL Season 91

Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2022 12:11 pm
by StevenH
I am in Group 96 in the Astronomy ML. Best of luck to everyone who is playing in it!

Re: LL Season 91

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2022 5:38 am
by SBurrus
In Group 175 in the Astronomy Mini-League. I guess the assignments must be made randomly, because there are 176 groups and I registered for this one several weeks ago.

And what happens on my first day? Despite answering 4 questions correctly, I was up against the ONE person in my group to cop a 9(6).

Sigh.

Re: LL Season 91

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2022 9:35 am
by Volante
I would've bet on Egypt having double digits of UNESCO sites...(and, I kinda sorta did...picking Libya, which has five.)

Turns out South Africa is the only [African country] with double digits...and even that's on a technicality. (One site is shared, so if we measure it like sacks, SA only has 9.5...)