Thursday, March 14, 2013

The Question Results Through 3/12/13, Now With Expanded Standings!


Here are the results and individual standings through March 12 for the ratings prediction game The Question. This time I added how often each player selects "Over" or "Under"!

February 17-March 12 Games:

Date Show(s) OU/Spread Result Winner W L D
Feb. 17 Revenge 1.85 1.8 Under 2 11
Feb. 19 Body of Proof 1.85 1.2 Under 5 10
Feb. 19 Cult 0.55 0.3 Under 5 9
Feb. 26 Golden Boy 2.25 1.8 Under 6 8
Mar. 3 Apprentice vs. Red Widow CA by 0.25 CA 1.7 to 1.5 RW +0.25 7 4
Mar. 5 Celebrity Wife Swap 1.95 1.5 Under 7 3
Mar. 8 Fashion Star + Grimm 2.45 2.3 Under 5 7
Mar. 11 The Bachelor 3.25 3.5 Over 9 2
Mar. 12 Hell's Kitchen 2.25 2.2 Under 0 12
TOTAL



46 66 0
SEASON



451 400 18

Previous weeks' results:

Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | thru 11/14 | thru 12/10 | thru 12/20 | thru 1/17 | thru 1/31 | thru 2/14

Season-to-date standings through March 12:


W L D Pts Win% Over Under Over%
Billie_Dawn 45 29 2 52.6 61% 37 30 55%
Chris L 40 28 1 46.9 59% 40 22 65%
Survivor Fan 39 28 1 45.8 58% 28 32 47%
James "One" Shade 37 33 1 44.1 53% 28 35 44%
CarShark 35.5 31 1 42.3 53% 32 28 53%
Jack Sargeson 35 32 1 41.8 52% 28 33 46%
Igwell Predicts 32 34 2 38.8 48% 33 27 55%
DavidK 27.5 33 2 33.8 45% 32 24 57%
omabin 28 27 1 33.6 51% 26 23 53%
Silvio 24 22 1 28.7 52% 16 26 38%
Gavin Hetherington 18 16 0 21.4 53% 20 11 65%
Luke 14 21 1 17.6 40% 25 8 76%
vamperstien 10 10 1 12.1 50% 14 5 74%
Oliver 10 7 1 11.8 59% 12 4 75%
nb 10 6 0 11.6 63% 7 8 47%
A 8 10 2 10.0 44% 12 3 80%
yankeesrj12 8 10 0 9.8 44% 12 5 71%
Engelbert 8 6 0 9.4 57% 7 5 58%
Nicholas Nuccio 8 4 0 9.2 67% 3 8 27%
Klaus Gepp 8 3 0 9.1 73% 7 3 70%
RandyL 1 5 0 1.6 17% 4 1 80%
Mike Stein 1 3 0 1.4 25% 1 3 25%
Emily 1 0 0 1.1 100% 1 0 100%
Rurry 1 0 0 1.1 100% 0 1 0%
ABC Hater 1 0 0 1.1 100% 0 1 0%
Danny Robertson 0 1 0 0.1 0% 0 1 0%
wlm 0 1 0 0.1 0% 0 1 0%

As I mentioned in a past post, the correct result is "Under" about 59% of the time. It had started to even out after I last wrote that, but the long string of unders seen above got it back to that percentage. My goal is to get the results at about 50/50, but it's tough these days not to lean optimistic.

Though the results lean under, the actual correlation between win % and over/under % is pretty weak. The top players have a pretty wide variety of Over/Under % choices, and Chris L is in second place despite being one of the most optimistic. Not sure if any of this is actual "analysis," I just found it kind of interesting.

Some time in the future I will add in "win % when picking over" and "win % when picking under."

Points = Wins + 0.1 * Games.

The "half-wins" are for entries to sports games after the start of the event.

10 comments:

Spot said...

The result for Hell's Kitchen this past week is hilarious. Is that the only time this whole year that it's been a complete strikeout across the board?

Spot said...

Strangely enough there have been three games in which the field was unanimous, and all three times they were unanimously wrong. The other two were the Emily Owens premiere (Oct. 16) and The Voice finale (Dec. 18).

Spot said...

What can I say? Having a sunny deposition is working out for me. :)

I think in my case some of The Questions where I would have picked under (like the Hawaii Five-O one) I ended up not playing because I was away on vacation.

Spot said...

Hmm, interesting. Now I want to wait until there's another unanimous field and vote against it, just for kicks. One of those high risk/high reward scenarios.

Spot said...

Are the results only based on overnight ratings, as Hell's Kitchen adjusted up to 2.3 in finals. But still it's great to see how well I'm doing, though I've lost the past number of games.

Spot said...

It had a 2.3 in the 9:00 hour but 2.1 at 8. That still averages to 2.2.

Spot said...

Can you add how many total games there have been, as I would like to see both how many times I forgot to pick and how I would be doing had I remembered to pick?


Anyway, I have had a lot of fun with this game!

Spot said...

I'm totally biased, usually choosing over for FOX and cable, and under for ABC, NBC, and CBS.

Spot said...

By my count, 77.

Unknown said...

Hi, is there any way to get my The Question stats transferred to my Disqus account from my Google account? My account is under "Nick" and I currently have a The Middle picture (although I change that every few weeks).

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