LearnedLeague 98 (LL98) Thread

[MinnesotaMyron]

Matchups are up. Don't forfeit. Don't cheat. Good luck everyone.



I'm ready. Let's go!

[Volante]

Best time of the season. Tied for 1st! It's (almost) always downhill from here...

[Woof]

And don’t discuss live questions… ever.

[StevenH]

Best of luck, everyone!

[Bamaman]

I’m starting out in 25th place out of 26 in my rundle.

[MarkBarrett]

I’m starting out in 25th place out of 26 in my rundle.

I'm starting out in 2nd place (AndradeA leads) out of 36 in my rundle. Back down in C.

[twelvefootboy]

Waterfront D, Division 3.
This will be a volatile rundle. There's only 20 players, with 5 relegation spots and 4 promotion spots. It's going to be like a Thanos gauntlet snap at the end of the season . Only in the WTF rundle .

[econgator]

Waterfront D, Division 3.
This will be a volatile rundle. There's only 20 players, with 5 relegation spots and 4 promotion spots. It's going to be like a Thanos gauntlet snap at the end of the season .

We have 36, so it's 6 up and 6 down.

[Ironhorse]

I'm getting my first cup of coffee in A.

[AFRET CMS]

Waterfront D, Division 3.
This will be a volatile rundle. There's only 20 players, with 5 relegation spots and 4 promotion spots. It's going to be like a Thanos gauntlet snap at the end of the season . Only in the WTF rundle .

Waterfront C, Div 2. 24 players with 3 to be promoted and 4 to be relegated. I'm listed at #20, one step away from the relegation zone. I recognize a few names, so I guess I'm starting to feel more at home in LL.

In TFB's tank rundle, I'm currently 10th out of 10. It feels a bit strange that the goal in that rundle is to stay there, but I'll do my best....worst?

[twelvefootboy]

In TFB's tank rundle, I'm currently 10th out of 10. It feels a bit strange that the goal in that rundle is to stay there, but I'll do my best....worst?

I know you are down to it .

My ambition is to monitor the 3's and assign 3 points for each successful deployment. You will get a 3 point bonus (total 6 points) if your opponent du jour has a singleton. (it happened 24 times last season, with 6 successful three's awarded. mahatma placed 2 of them and tfb and AFRET had one each).
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At the end I'll adjust the divisor to handicap for bagels and forfeits (LL97 had 9 bagels and 2 forfeits).

This seems just the right amount of complexity and simplicity. Using DE and the other LL metrics is just playing the regular routine and subtracting from 3. This should produce more groaning when I miss a simple science question against you because I didn't RTFQ .

Protests and complaints will be obliged.

[mahatma]

In TFB's tank rundle, I'm currently 10th out of 10. It feels a bit strange that the goal in that rundle is to stay there, but I'll do my best....worst?

I know you are down to it .

My ambition is to monitor the 3's and assign 3 points for each successful deployment. You will get a 3 point bonus (total 6 points) if your opponent du jour has a singleton. (it happened 24 times last season, with 6 successful three's awarded. mahatma placed 2 of them and tfb and AFRET had one each).
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At the end I'll adjust the divisor to handicap for bagels and forfeits (LL97 had 9 bagels and 2 forfeits).

This seems just the right amount of complexity and simplicity. Using DE and the other LL metrics is just playing the regular routine and subtracting from 3. This should produce more groaning when I miss a simple science question against you because I didn't RTFQ .

Protests and complaints will be obliged.

That sounded really complicated. I'm just trying to play defense backards, correct?

[twelvefootboy]

In TFB's tank rundle, I'm currently 10th out of 10. It feels a bit strange that the goal in that rundle is to stay there, but I'll do my best....worst?

I know you are down to it .

My ambition is to monitor the 3's and assign 3 points for each successful deployment. You will get a 3 point bonus (total 6 points) if your opponent du jour has a singleton. (it happened 24 times last season, with 6 successful three's awarded. mahatma placed 2 of them and tfb and AFRET had one each).
.
At the end I'll adjust the divisor to handicap for bagels and forfeits (LL97 had 9 bagels and 2 forfeits).

This seems just the right amount of complexity and simplicity. Using DE and the other LL metrics is just playing the regular routine and subtracting from 3. This should produce more groaning when I miss a simple science question against you because I didn't RTFQ .

Protests and complaints will be obliged.

That sounded really complicated. I'm just trying to play defense backards, correct?

Examples are always more helpful. Basically, if you successfully assign 25 threes in the season, it is a perfect score. You might flub some zeroes and twos, etc.. but they don't affect this variant of the game. The two wrinkles about singletons and noughts are just a little spice.
1) You shouldn't be negged because you can't give a three to a player who doesn't get any right, or forfeits. If it happens to you four times, then we divide your three's awarded by 21. This probably will not be necessary.
2) If your opponent only gets one right (i.e. singleton), and you are able to place the three on it, then it counts as two threes on your resume. I do a little fist pump when that happens, even if it wasn't my match.

Administratively, I can quickly tally up the results from the daily grid by hunting down the green 3's.

You certainly can play complete backwards defense since it helps you with insights in your regular game. But it also works to just take your best shot at the 3 and mail in the rest . How the other six points fall isn't a factor. In a more advanced variant, I'd also tally up the noughts.

We play 7 players three times and 2 players only twice. I'm not going to worry about schedule bias. I hope I play you 3 times . We really enjoy watching you mop up the place with us and your real match.

As usual, if we don't like the rules, we'll change them or break them .

[This Is Kirk!]

Good luck everyone!

[StevenH]

I opened the season with a 4(3)-6(3) loss. Interestingly I got the three that my opponent missed (Karakoram, eggplant, Over There) and they got the three that I missed (barrel, Archimedes, gaffer).

I guessed Bernoulli for Archimedes. It also doesn't feel great to miss "barrel" when that question had a league-wide 92% get rate

[astrohip]

I opened the season with a 4(3)-6(3) loss. Interestingly I got the three that my opponent missed (Karakoram, eggplant, Over There) and they got the three that I missed (barrel, Archimedes, gaffer).

I guessed Bernoulli for Archimedes. It also doesn't feel great to miss "barrel" when that question had a league-wide 92% get rate

What did you put instead?

[StevenH]

I opened the season with a 4(3)-6(3) loss. Interestingly I got the three that my opponent missed (Karakoram, eggplant, Over There) and they got the three that I missed (barrel, Archimedes, gaffer).

I guessed Bernoulli for Archimedes. It also doesn't feel great to miss "barrel" when that question had a league-wide 92% get rate

What did you put instead?

I would rather not say. I will say though that I think that I made a mistake in only approaching the clue from the "weights and measurements" angle, and not even thinking to approach it from the business/econ side.

[Volante]

And the self sabotage continues! 1960, that must've been Mazeroski's world series. So who won the other one...they specified 'city and team' so must have recently moved...didn't the Giants move to SF around then? And win a series around then? Must have been one of those years, maybe Mazeroski came later...

I shouldn't be left alone with my brain sometimes

That one actually cost me the win. Monday I merely forgot the word gaffer existed while I brushed my teeth but got scored zero for it.

[twelvefootboy]

Apologies to AFRET CMS for my MD2 ineptitude so I couldn't catch a three from him. I was gobsmacked at all 6 questions, but thought that Bill Mazeroski would save me from a bagel (which he did). So naturally I assigned it as my three and it turns out to be the toughest question at 27%. Meanwhile, I guess the only guess I had for marzipan was a cheese, which would make a lovely syrup, wouldn't it? I might as well have just answered "fractals" in homage to the Mandelbrot set.

MD1 produced 6 threes in bizarro play, and MD2 was a tough sled with only 2 threes awarded. I'm looking ahead to worse days.

[mahatma]

Apologies to AFRET CMS for my MD2 ineptitude so I couldn't catch a three from him. I was gobsmacked at all 6 questions, but thought that Bill Mazeroski would save me from a bagel (which he did). So naturally I assigned it as my three and it turns out to be the toughest question at 27%. Meanwhile, I guess the only guess I had for marzipan was a cheese, which would make a lovely syrup, wouldn't it? I might as well have just answered "fractals" in homage to the Mandelbrot set.

MD1 produced 6 threes in bizarro play, and MD2 was a tough sled with only 2 threes awarded. I'm looking ahead to worse days.

Mandelbrot = 'almond bread'. Yum.