I fucking love sabermetric (and SIBRmetric) acronyms. Fucking “SPAWN” sure. Sproutella’s Adjusted WhAT Number. Sure. We’re doing this
i finally figured out why the ice milk i was drinking for ybw’s thing started to taste bad at the end
cold milk tastes like its nearly spoiled
i wish you could do funny quizbowl stats but they do unfortunately all suffer from the “no underlying data” problem i mentioned earlier
mew
Purrrrrrrrrrr
I got my first result back
Mew Mew
there is one example.
quizbowl has this thing called the shadow effect where when two good players are on the same team they tend to bring each other’s points per game numbers down (or at least one of them brings the other’s numbers down if there’s a somewhat significant skill gap), attributable to there being a set number of tossups per game and each of them only being gettable by one player. it’s kinda like if you put lebron and steph on the same team they’d put up worse counting stats than either of them could alone, but like. even more set in stone because there’s only a set predetermined number of scoring opportunities.
enter PATH, quizbowl’s attempt to account for the shadow effect. which is more complicated to calculate than PPG and not used because it swings too hard the other way and assumes that every player is in contention to get every question and being shadowed by one of their teammates, which in many cases is just not true (a pure science specialist, for instance, is probably not being shadowed when their teammate picks up a literature question, but PATH assumes they are just as much as they would be if one of their teammates who was also good at science got a science question)
vampires can already trick their victims so
there have probably been other attempts to butcher the small underlying numbers to produce quizbowl hellstats but none of them have gotten serious use. probably because they are inherently not gonna be good as a result of no underlying data
I argued that vampires cannot threaten the owner into inviting them in. Such as with a weapon of some sort. An invitation must be willing, not forced
Anybody not always thinking about “homo-genius: a history of gay inventors” please raise your hand
raises paw
NYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
am I getting kicked out now
the bird population has been growing too fast unchecked…