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2019–20 Season
Week 7

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News and Views: 2019–20 Season – Week 7 – 19 November 2019

Results

Seven games this week were won by the teams that went "second first". The three teams that managed to buck this trend were the Waters Green Lemmings, Robin Hood and Park Taverners; the first and third of these won by a single point.

Most games do however seem to have gone to form. Biggest surprise of the week was possibly the Waters Green Lemmings' single–point victory over the Dolphin Dragons, who started (and remain) four places above them in the B League. The other single–point margin was the Park Taverners' victory over the Sutton Mutton.

Tables

Biggest movers of the week were the Church House Bollington, who moved up from sixth place to third in the A League following their victory over the Queens.

In the B League, the only change was that the Robin Hood swapped places with the Plough Horntails following their second victory of the season; they are now in fifth place, while the Horntails drop to sixth.

Also enjoying their second win of the season were the Pack Horse Bowling Club, who moved up from eighth place to sixth in the C League as a result.

Individual

Congratulations to Alan Hodgson, whose 57 was the highest individual score of the season so far. Batting second on the team that went "second first", the only question that defeated Alan was the one about the Woodstock lyrics. This was in Round 6 of the General Knowledge ... frustratingly, probably just about the point when Alan was starting to think about the Maximum Break! (Apologies for the mixed sporting metaphor ... )

Close behind was Ashton Davies with 54. Ashton got a full house in the General Knowledge questions; the two that he missed out on were in rounds 3 and 7 of the Specialists – the ones about the Ultra Low Emmissions Zone acronym and Stoke–on–Trent's link to the RMS Titanic.

There were also four scores in the 40s – including two in the B League, for Jim Kennelly (48) and Jon Thompson (42). Highest score in the C League was 33, which was achieved by four people.

There were 19 personal bests this week, and 27 people failed to better their lowest scores of the season.

A League

Results

Church House Bollington 180 158 Queens
Ashton Davies (pb) 54 48 Haydn Thompson (pb)
British Flag 118 174 Nags Head 'B'
Tony Browne (pb) 33 45 Mark Watson
Weaver 141 173 Dolphin
Ian Grieve 36 57 Alan Hodgson (pb)

Table

Played Won Drawn Lost Total Points
Nags Head 'B' 6 6 0 0 1046 12
Dolphin 6 4 0 2 976 8
Church House Bollington 5 3 0 2 795 6
Weaver 5 3 0 2 786 6
Queens 5 2 0 3 848 4
Rushton Diamonds 5 2 0 3 772 4
British Flag 5 1 0 4 702 2
Royal Oak 5 0 0 5 782 0

Individual Top Ten

Team Played Total Highest Lowest Week 7
Mark Watson Nags Head 'B' 6 279 51 42 45
Alan Hodgson Dolphin 6 276 57 42 57
Ashton Davies Church House Bollington 5 249 54 42 54
Alice Walker Queens 5 246 54 42 42
Peter McBride Dolphin 6 237 45 27 42
Haydn Thompson Queens 5 210 48 36 48
Brian Bogie Rushton Diamonds 5 195 42 36  
Rosalie James Royal Oak 5 180 48 30  
Art Higham Rushton Diamonds 5 168 42 27  
Ian Grieve Weaver 5 168 42 27 36
Mark Shaw Nags Head 'B' 6 168 33 18 21

B League

Results

Dolphin Dragons 145 146 Waters Green Lemmings
Robin Morrell 39 42
27
27
Jon Thompson (pb)
Sunil Peck (pb)
Bob Langstaff
Nags Head 150 143 Plough Horntails
Andy Johnson
Paul Prior
33
33
36 Malcolm Asquith (pb)
Chester Road Tavern 111 158 Robin Hood
Mitch Moores (pb)
Chris Moores (pb)
Bill Moores (pb)
33
24
21
48
24
24
Jim Kennelly (pb)
Tim Grimes (pb)
Andrew Clark

Table

Played Won Drawn Lost Total Points
Nags Head 7 6 0 1 1057 12
Waters Green Rams 5 5 0 0 807 10
Dolphin Dragons 5 3 0 2 785 6
Harrington Academicals 6 2 0 4 848 4
Robin Hood 6 2 0 4 830 4
Plough Horntails 5 2 0 3 686 4
Waters Green Lemmings 5 2 0 3 625 4
Chester Road Tavern 5 0 0 5 530 0

Individual Top Ten

Team Played Total Highest Lowest Week 7
Dave Partington Harrington Academicals 6 246 48 27  
Jim Kennelly Robin Hood 6 222 48 30 48
Keith Pointon Waters Green Rams 5 201 45 30  
Paul Prior Nags Head 6 201 42 24 33
Alasdair Reid Nags Head 6 195 42 21 30
Andy Johnson Nags Head 6 180 39 21 33
Jon Thompson Waters Green Lemmings 5 177 42 27 42
Liz Horrocks Dolphin Dragons 5 168 42 21 21
Malcolm Asquith Plough Horntails 5 165 36 30 36
Rob Parkin Harrington Academicals 5 162 39 27  

C League

Results

Sutton Mutton 118 119 Park Taverners
Wynne Keith–Davies
Gill Dyson (pb)
Mike Proctor
24
18
18
33 Graham Wallace (pb)
Brewers Arms 127 110 Harrington 'B'
Andy Ridgway 33 24
21
18
John Green
Geoff Parkin
Tom Aindow (pb)
Pack Horse Bowling Club 141 116 Broken Cross Club
Tim Bloor
Andrew Vickerstaff (pb)
30
27
33 Peter Wilcox
Park Timers 122 125 Sutton Club
John Poyser
Andrew Fenton (pb)
Karyn Johnson (pb)
33
30
21
24
24
Simon Rumsey
Wendy Brown

Table

Played Won Drawn Lost Total Points
Park Taverners 6 6 0 0 783 12
Brewers Arms 7 5 0 2 828 10
Sutton Club 6 5 0 1 813 10
Park Timers 6 3 0 3 747 6
Harrington 'B' 6 2 1 3 744 5
Pack Horse Bowling Club 6 2 0 4 744 4
Sutton Mutton 6 2 0 4 736 4
Broken Cross Club 7 1 1 5 689 3
King's Gambit 6 1 0 5 497 2

Individual Top Ten

Team Played Total Highest Lowest Week 7
Andy Ridgway Brewers Arms 7 198 36 18 33
John Poyser Park Timers 6 189 39 24 33
John Green Harrington 'B' 6 180 39 24 24
Wendy Brown Sutton Club 5 168 45 24 24
Kenny Davenport–Slater Brewers Arms 7 156 30 15 24
Shauna Barstow Park Taverners 5 141 36 15 15
Peter Wilcox Broken Cross Club 6 138 33 15 33
Geoff Parkin Harrington 'B' 5 135 33 21 21
Mike Proctor Sutton Mutton 5 135 33 18 18
Jackie Hulme Broken Cross Club 6 135 30 6 24
Simon Rumsey Sutton Club 6 135 27 12 24

Cars & Van 4U Question Setters' Trophy

  Week   Setters Difficulty Balance Ent'ment Total Last Yr
1 4 Spec Park Timers 7.67 8.22 6.47 22.36 18.44
2 7 Spec Royal Oak 7.44 9.23 5.15 21.81 8.43
3 4 GK Waters Green Rams 5.31 8.48 6.20 19.99 18.84
4 1 Spec Rushton Diamonds 6.08 6.30 6.67 19.05
5 6 Spec Queens 3.68 8.97 6.03 18.68 15.92
6 2 GK Dolphin Dragons 3.68 9.28 5.65 18.61 17.65
7 5 GK Sutton Club 4.89 6.88 6.11 17.87 21.28
8 3 Spec British Flag 1.49 9.84 6.03 17.35 14.50
9 6 GK Queens 4.61 6.60 5.86 17.06 21.09
10 2 Spec Sutton Mutton 4.64 6.66 4.11 15.41 8.61
11 1 GK Rushton Diamonds 7.88 1.10 6.28 15.26 18.63
12 7 GK Royal Oak 2.90 3.74 5.98 12.62 17.10
13 5 Spec Sutton Club 1.87 0.00 6.19 8.06
14 3 GK British Flag 2.64 0.00 5.04 7.68

For the full spreadsheet, please click here.

It was very much a game of two halves for the Royal Oak's questions. The Specialists scored well all round (except for a slightly disappointing Entertainment mark) and are currently second only to the Park Timers' Specialist set from Week 4. The General Knowledge on the other hand scored poorly for both Difficulty and Balance, and are 12th out of 14.

Most teams found the Specialist questions fairly easy; on average, teams scored 110% of their average scores. The spreadsheet detected a slight bias towards the teams that went second, who scored on average 111% of their average scores, while those that went second scored 109%.

According to the spreadsheet, the General Knowledge questions were of exactly average difficulty for the teams that went first (second in the Specialists), but teams that went second (first in the Specialists) scored only 89% of their averages.

Overall, the teams that went "first first" scored 98% of their average scores, while those that went "second first" scored 104%. On an average team score of 139, this could have made a difference of eight or nine points; this may have been enough to influence the results of two games.

The bias that the spreadsheet detected is perhaps borne out by the fact that seven of the ten games were won by the teams that went "second first".

Neither set scored well for Entertainment and they currently sit 9th and 12th, out of 14, in that respect.

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