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Macclesfield Quiz League |
| News & Views |
| 2018–19 Season |
| Week 6 |
| A League |
| B League |
| C League |
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By Haydn Thompson, with input from Mark Watson.
In both the A League and the C League, something had to give as the two unbeaten teams played each other. There is now just one unbeaten team in each league: the Dolphin, Harrington Academicals and the Robin Hood.
The Dolphin Dragons and the Cock Inn achieved their first victories of the season.
The Dolphin's victory over the Ox–fford means that they go top of the A League with a game in hand on the teams immediately below them. Rushton Diamonds went top of the B League on goal difference, having played one more game than the Harrington Academicals. Similarly in the C League, the Park Timers went top on goal difference over the Chester Road Tavern, who didn't play this week.
There were only eleven personal bests this week: five in the A League (including three for the Dolphin), four in the B League and two in the C League. Top score was 51, by Alan Hodgson and Haydn Thompson. In the B and C Leagues there were no scores above 36.
Almost half of the people who played this week (38 out of 80) registered their lowest (or equal lowest) scores of the season so far: 14 in the A League, and 12 each in the B and C Leagues.
| Dolphin Dragons | 158 | 144 | Weaver |
| Dave Cooper (pb) | 39 | 42 | Graham Bailey |
| Royal Oak | 140 | 128 | Church House Bollington |
| Rosalie James | 33 | 39 | Ashton Davies |
| Ox–fford | 153 | 174 | Dolphin |
| Mark Watson | 48 | 51 45 33 |
Alan Hodgson (pb) Peter McBride (pb) Jeff Corry (pb) |
| Waters Green Rams | 160 | 180 | Ox–fford 'C' |
| Scott Dawson | 45 | 51 | Haydn Thompson (pb) |
| Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Total | Points | |
| Dolphin | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 661 | 8 |
| Ox–fford 'C' | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 880 | 7 |
| Ox–fford | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 833 | 7 |
| Royal Oak | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 767 | 6 |
| Weaver | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 811 | 4 |
| Church House Bollington | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 765 | 4 |
| Dolphin Dragons | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 715 | 2 |
| Waters Green Rams | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 630 | 0 |
| Team | Played | Total | Highest | Lowest | Week 6 | |
| Mark Watson | Ox–fford | 5 | 261 | 57 | 48 | 48 |
| Alice Walker | Ox–fford 'C' | 5 | 243 | 54 | 45 | 45 |
| Haydn Thompson | Ox–fford 'C' | 5 | 228 | 51 | 39 | 51 |
| Ashton Davies | Church House Bollington | 5 | 213 | 45 | 39 | 39 |
| Alan Hodgson | Dolphin | 4 | 189 | 51 | 42 | 51 |
| Paul Morrissey | Ox–fford | 5 | 180 | 45 | 27 | 36 |
| Rosalie James | Royal Oak | 5 | 174 | 45 | 27 | 33 |
| Alan Gilday | Weaver | 5 | 171 | 42 | 27 | 33 |
| Ed Baron | Church House Bollington | 5 | 168 | 45 | 18 | 18 |
| Peter McBride | Dolphin | 4 | 165 | 45 | 39 | 45 |
| Sutton Mutton | 120 | 145 | Rushton Diamonds |
| Wynne Keith–Davies (pb) Mike Proctor Gill Dyson (pb) |
27 27 24 |
36 | Brian Bogie |
| Park Taverners | 123 | 143 | Plough Horntails |
| Pete Dykstra (pb) | 27 | 33 | Anne Jeater |
| Nags Head | 129 | 151 | British Flag |
| Dave Pennington (pb) | 33 | 36 | Neil Drummond |
| Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Total | Points | |
| Rushton Diamonds | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 744 | 8 |
| Harrington Academicals | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 670 | 8 |
| British Flag | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 747 | 6 |
| Plough Horntails | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 684 | 4 |
| Nags Head | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 584 | 4 |
| Park Taverners | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 677 | 2 |
| Waters Green Lemmings | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 529 | 2 |
| Sutton Mutton | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 519 | 2 |
| Team | Played | Total | Highest | Lowest | Week 6 | |
| Brian Bogie | Rushton Diamonds | 5 | 189 | 42 | 36 | 36 |
| Dave Partington | Harrington Academicals | 4 | 168 | 45 | 39 | |
| Art Higham | Rushton Diamonds | 5 | 165 | 45 | 27 | 30 |
| Graham Wallace | Park Taverners | 4 | 150 | 45 | 30 | 30 |
| Anne Jeater | Plough Horntails | 5 | 150 | 36 | 24 | 33 |
| Rob Parkin | Harrington Academicals | 4 | 144 | 42 | 33 | |
| Wynne Keith–Davies | Sutton Mutton | 4 | 135 | 45 | 27 | 27 |
| Bob Langstaff | Waters Green Lemmings | 4 | 132 | 36 | 27 | |
| Malcolm Asquith | Plough Horntails | 5 | 132 | 33 | 9 | 30 |
| Jon Thompson | Waters Green Lemmings | 4 | 129 | 45 | 24 |
| Brewers Arms | 98 | 123 | Park Timers |
| Kenny Davenport–Slater (pb) | 24 | 30 | Andrew Fenton |
| Robin Hood | 136 | 98 | Sutton Club |
| Lorraine Hilton | 30 | 24 | Paul Heaven |
| Cock Inn | 123 | 113 | Pack Horse Bowling Club |
| Peter Wilcox (pb) | 36 | 27 | Tim Bloor |
| Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Total | Points | |
| Park Timers | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 784 | 8 |
| Chester Road Tavern | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 678 | 8 |
| Robin Hood | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 586 | 8 |
| Sutton Club | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 515 | 6 |
| Harrington 'B' | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 649 | 4 |
| Pack Horse Bowling Club | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 693 | 2 |
| Cock Inn | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 485 | 2 |
| Brewers Arms | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 452 | 0 |
| Team | Played | Total | Highest | Lowest | Week 6 | |
| John Green | Harrington 'B' | 5 | 171 | 39 | 30 | |
| Andrew Fenton | Park Timers | 6 | 165 | 36 | 21 | 30 |
| Glyn Bradley | Park Timers | 5 | 150 | 39 | 24 | 27 |
| Tim Bloor | Pack Horse Bowling Club | 6 | 141 | 33 | 12 | 27 |
| Andrew Vickerstaff | Pack Horse Bowling Club | 6 | 138 | 30 | 18 | 18 |
| John Poyser | Park Timers | 5 | 132 | 36 | 18 | 18 |
| Jackie Hulme | Cock Inn | 4 | 114 | 42 | 21 | 24 |
| Mitch Moores | Chester Road Tavern | 4 | 111 | 30 | 27 | |
| Jim Moores | Chester Road Tavern | 3 | 102 | 39 | 27 | |
| Wendy Brown | Sutton Club | 4 | 99 | 33 | 6 | 6 |
For the full spreadsheet, please click here.
| Week | Setters | Difficulty | Balance | Ent'ment | Total | Last Yr | ||
| 1 | 1 | Spec | Ox–fford | 9.52 | 7.63 | 7.17 | 24.32 | 24.69 |
| 2 | 1 | GK | Ox–fford | 7.67 | 9.18 | 7.22 | 24.07 | 17.22 |
| 3 | 5 | GK | Sutton Club | 6.51 | 8.64 | 6.33 | 21.48 | 19.98 |
| 4 | 2 | GK | Dolphin Dragons | 5.11 | 8.76 | 6.22 | 20.10 | 17.65 |
| 5 | 3 | GK | Plough Horntails | 5.09 | 9.40 | 5.51 | 20.00 | 8.76 |
| 6 | 4 | Spec | Waters Green Rams | 4.57 | 9.95 | 5.39 | 19.91 | |
| 7 | 2 | Spec | Dolphin Dragons | 6.13 | 6.85 | 6.22 | 19.21 | 20.42 |
| 8 | 3 | Spec | Plough Horntails | 3.65 | 9.40 | 5.76 | 18.82 | |
| 9 | 5 | Spec | British Flag | 6.06 | 5.61 | 6.72 | 18.39 | 24.61 |
| 10 | 6 | Spec | Waters Green Lemmings | 3.93 | 7.48 | 4.97 | 16.38 | 14.47 |
| 11 | 4 | GK | Waters Green Rams | 6.39 | 0.65 | 5.22 | 12.26 | 18.84 |
| 12 | 6 | GK | Harrington 'B' | 4.10 | 2.51 | 5.32 | 11.94 | (16.23) |
Of the ten games this week (all eight A League teams playing), eight were won by the teams that went "first first". The two teams that won against these odds were the Royal Oak and Rushton Diamonds. Quite what the geographic influence on the results was, remains a mystery!
This week's questions did not score well at all. Their positions in the full table above are reversed in the Entertainment scores – the Harrington 'B''s General Knowledge questions sitting in tenth place and the Waters Green Lemmings' Specialist set in twelfth. According to the spreadsheet these were also two of the three most difficult sets of questions we've had so far this season. The Specialists scored well for Balance, but the General Knowledge seemed to show a marked bias in favour of the teams that went second ("first first"); both of these findings are reflected in the match scores.
Overall, teams that went "first first" scored 104% of their average scores, while those that went "second first" scored 93%. On an average team score of 137, this would mean a points difference of 15. Two of the games that went "with the bias" were within this margin.
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