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#176028 - 04/18/08 10:33 PM Re: stylite points (which don't matter) [Re: Owlbow]
The Pook Offline
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Registered: 02/20/08
Posts: 592
Loc: Tasmania
 Originally Posted By: Owlbow
Thanks for an enjoyable round.
I’m glad I didn’t win – I’ve suffered enough and need no further penance. I am glad to have collected two invaluable points and I believe my hogwash point average has now risen to 0.071.
Worthless or precious, soon enough all will be coprolite.
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero, unless it's Friday.


It's Saturday here

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#176030 - 04/19/08 12:33 AM Re: stylite points (which don't matter) [Re: The Pook]
twosleepy Offline
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Registered: 02/28/08
Posts: 291
Loc: western NY
quam maximum credula postero, then... ;0)
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#176073 - 04/19/08 08:50 PM Re: stylite points (which don't matter) [Re: twosleepy]
tsuwm Offline
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Registered: 04/03/00
Posts: 8655
Loc: this too shall pass
Owlbow>I believe my hogwash point average has now risen to 0.071.

this gives me a notion...

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#176075 - 04/19/08 10:47 PM Re: stylite points (which don't matter) [Re: tsuwm]
tsuwm Offline
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okay, this is just a trial baloon, but here some recent numbers for votes collected (covering '07 to date, or the last ten(10) rounds; for those that have participated in a min. of five(5) rounds):

Aramis (7 rounds) 1.57 votes/per
ASp (10) 0.9
BranShea (8) 0.5
Faldage (10) 1.4
Jackie (8) 0.75
musick (5) 1.4
olly (7) 0.71
Owlbow (6) 1.0
shanks (5) 1.2
themilum (8) 1.0
tsuwm (9) 1.0
wofa (6) 1.16666666666...

in raw numbers, Faldage led the way with 14 votes, Aramis had 11, and ASp and tsuwm 9 each.

OED, et al, collected 19 votes over the 10 rounds.

there were only 6 outright "winners" over the 10 rounds;
they were BranShea, EC, Faldage, Jackie (a skunk), musick, tsuwm

for those that like getting things "right", shanks and BranShea led the way, each guessing three correctly.

[TEd, EC, consuelo, and belM fell just short of qualifying (5 entries).]
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joe friday

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#176082 - 04/20/08 09:34 AM Re: stylite points (which don't matter) [Re: tsuwm]
BranShea Offline
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Registered: 06/23/06
Posts: 2007
Loc: Netherlands, the Hague
Yes,
stylite,thrapple,sabrage,enthymeme,dariole,squinch,tiddledies,willywha. It was very amusing.

That's 8 though for squinch I gave no entry, just a vote.
Amazing! I thought they had only been four. Trial balloon, flighty memory.
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above all shadows rides the sun (JRRT)

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#176086 - 04/20/08 10:01 AM Re: stylite points (which don't matter) [Re: BranShea]
Faldage Offline
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Registered: 12/01/00
Posts: 11496
It's all in the style.
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#176134 - 04/21/08 11:37 AM Re: stylite points (which don't matter) [Re: Faldage]
musick Offline
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Registered: 12/24/00
Posts: 2640
Loc: Chicago
'Sorry I missed this one. Geez... take a few months off and, well and even still, my per game average ain't too shabby.
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#176144 - 04/21/08 03:00 PM Re: stylite points (which don't matter) [Re: musick]
Owlbow Offline
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Registered: 10/21/03
Posts: 312
Loc: Rhode Island, USA
1.0 > 0.071. Thanks for the correction joe friday. Perhaps I was counting my lifetime average, or bad guessing. I like your value better.
Unity rules!

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#176145 - 04/21/08 03:11 PM Re: stylite points (which don't matter) [Re: Owlbow]
tsuwm Offline
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Registered: 04/03/00
Posts: 8655
Loc: this too shall pass
 Originally Posted By: Owlbow
1.0 > 0.071. Thanks for the correction joe friday. Perhaps I was counting my lifetime average, or bad guessing. I like your value better.
Unity rules!


at first glance I thought I had come up with an actual statistical anomaly with the 0.71 average, but that was for olly.

-joe (antianomalous) friday

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#176249 - 04/22/08 10:56 PM Re: stylite points (which don't matter) [Re: tsuwm]
Jackie Administrator Offline
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Registered: 03/15/00
Posts: 9620
Loc: Louisville, Kentucky
Jackie (a skunk) \:o
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