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2019–20 Season |
Week 9 |
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One of the League's two remaining unbeaten records fell this week, as the Park Taverners were narrowly (and, if the victors will forgive us, somewhat surprisingly) defeated by the Harrington 'B'. This leaves the Nags Head 'B' as the only undefeated team in the League.
At the other end of the scale, the Royal Oak came out victorious in the six–pointer (sorry, I suppose that should be "four–pointer") at the bottom of the A League. The Chester Road Tavern are now the only team yet to mark up a victory this season.
Waters Green Rams brought out the big guns in their four–pointer with the Dolphin Dragons – both Scott Dawson and Bob Thompson playing, for what I suspect may be the first time (although I stand to be corrected). It paid off; the Rams won by 158 points to 141, to go to the top of the B League table.
At this half–way point of the season, the Nags Head 'B' have a four–point lead at the top of the A League, while in the B League the Waters Green Rams and the 'original' Nags Head team have a similar advantage over the rest of the field. Similarly in the C League, the Sutton Club and the Park Taverners are four points clear of the Brewers Arms in third.
In the B League, no fewer than four teams are level on six points and occupy places four to seven; we can expect some jockeying for position amongst these four in the coming weeks. The equivalent places in the A League are more conventionally spaced, with Rushton Diamonds in most danger of dropping into the relegation zone depending on future results.
Ashton Davies was top scorer once again this week with 51. There were three scores in the 40s: Haydn Thompson with 45, and Alice Walker and Scott Dawson with 42 each. Top scorer in the C League was Mick Graves with 33.
Ashton is in a commanding position in the A League individual table, with a 21–point lead over three players who are separated only by their respective highest scores: Alan Hodgson, Alice Walker and Mark Watson.
In the B League, Dave Partington has a similar lead over Keith Pointon in second place. The C League is much closer: John Poyser is just six points (two questions, as you don't need reminding) ahead of John Green. But Wendy Brown and Andy Ridgway are only one further question behind; and Wendy has missed a game, so this could prove crucial later on when contestants have played twelve games.
There were only 12 personal bests this week (six of them in the C League), and 14 people failed to better their lowest scores of the season.
Royal Oak | 176 | 114 | British Flag |
Alan James Rosalie James Bill Cawley Gill Baker (pb) |
39 36 33 27 |
33 | Neil Drummond (pb) |
Queens | 170 | 110 | Rushton Diamonds |
Haydn Thompson | 45 | 27 | Art Higham |
Church House Bollington | 166 | 161 | Weaver |
Ashton Davies Ed Baron (pb) |
51 39 |
36 33 33 27 |
Alan Gilday Ian Grieve Graham Bailey Lesley Davies (pb) |
Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Total | Points | |
Nags Head 'B' | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1200 | 14 |
Dolphin | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1130 | 10 |
Church House Bollington | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1123 | 10 |
Queens | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1169 | 8 |
Weaver | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 1089 | 6 |
Rushton Diamonds | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1021 | 4 |
Royal Oak | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1094 | 2 |
British Flag | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 929 | 2 |
For the full Individual Half–Way table, please click here.
Team | Played | Total | Highest | Lowest | Week 9 | |
Ashton Davies | Church House Bollington | 7 | 342 | 54 | 42 | 51 |
Alan Hodgson | Dolphin | 7 | 321 | 57 | 42 | |
Alice Walker | Queens | 7 | 321 | 54 | 33 | 42 |
Mark Watson | Nags Head 'B' | 7 | 321 | 51 | 42 | |
Haydn Thompson | Queens | 7 | 279 | 48 | 24 | 45 |
Peter McBride | Dolphin | 7 | 264 | 45 | 27 | |
Brian Bogie | Rushton Diamonds | 7 | 258 | 42 | 21 | 21 |
Rosalie James | Royal Oak | 7 | 246 | 48 | 30 | 36 |
Graham Bailey | Weaver | 7 | 237 | 42 | 27 | 33 |
Alan James | Royal Oak | 7 | 237 | 42 | 24 | 39 |
Harrington Academicals | 132 | 91 | Chester Road Tavern |
Dave Partington Rob Parkin |
30 30 |
27 | Mitch Moores |
Waters Green Lemmings | 125 | 132 | Plough Horntails |
Jon Thompson | 27 | 30 30 21 |
Dave McGuinness Malcolm Asquith Pat Jeater (pb) |
Dolphin Dragons | 141 | 158 | Waters Green Rams |
Liz Horrocks Dave Cooper Chris Wearne (pb) |
36 27 24 |
42 | Scott Dawson |
Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Total | Points | |
Waters Green Rams | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1061 | 12 |
Nags Head | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1057 | 12 |
Dolphin Dragons | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1063 | 8 |
Harrington Academicals | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 980 | 6 |
Robin Hood | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 942 | 6 |
Plough Horntails | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 916 | 6 |
Waters Green Lemmings | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 878 | 6 |
Chester Road Tavern | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 711 | 0 |
For the full Individual Half–Way table, please click here.
Team | Played | Total | Highest | Lowest | Week 9 | |
Dave Partington | Harrington Academicals | 7 | 276 | 48 | 27 | 30 |
Keith Pointon | Waters Green Rams | 7 | 258 | 45 | 27 | 30 |
Jim Kennelly | Robin Hood | 7 | 243 | 48 | 21 | |
Jon Thompson | Waters Green Lemmings | 7 | 234 | 42 | 27 | 27 |
Liz Horrocks | Dolphin Dragons | 7 | 231 | 42 | 21 | 36 |
Malcolm Asquith | Plough Horntails | 7 | 216 | 36 | 21 | 30 |
Paul Prior | Nags Head | 6 | 201 | 42 | 24 | |
Alasdair Reid | Nags Head | 6 | 195 | 42 | 21 | |
Rob Parkin | Harrington Academicals | 6 | 192 | 39 | 27 | 30 |
Andy Johnson | Nags Head | 6 | 180 | 39 | 21 |
Park Taverners | 119 | 124 | Harrington 'B' |
Nick Crowdy (pb) Pete Dykstra |
27 27 |
27 27 24 |
Geoff Parkin John Green Tom Aindow (pb) |
Sutton Mutton | 149 | 107 | Park Timers |
Mick Graves (pb) Wynne Keith–Davies John Stein (pb) |
33 30 24 |
24 24 |
John Poyser Andrew Fenton |
Brewers Arms | 105 | 140 | Sutton Club |
Andy Ridgway | 27 | 30 27 |
Wendy Brown Paul Heaven (pb) |
King's Gambit | 75 | 126 | Pack Horse Bowling Club |
Helen Hughes (pb) Susan Taylor |
18 18 |
30 | Tim Bloor |
Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Total | Points | |
Sutton Club | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1066 | 14 |
Park Taverners | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1027 | 14 |
Brewers Arms | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 933 | 10 |
Sutton Mutton | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 987 | 8 |
Park Timers | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 970 | 8 |
Harrington 'B' | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 955 | 7 |
Pack Horse Bowling Club | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 971 | 6 |
Broken Cross Club | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 774 | 3 |
King's Gambit | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 658 | 2 |
For the full Individual Half–Way table, please click here.
Team | Played | Total | Highest | Lowest | Week 9 | |
John Poyser | Park Timers | 8 | 234 | 39 | 21 | 24 |
John Green | Harrington 'B' | 8 | 228 | 39 | 21 | 27 |
Wendy Brown | Sutton Club | 7 | 225 | 45 | 24 | 30 |
Andy Ridgway | Brewers Arms | 8 | 225 | 36 | 18 | 27 |
Wynne Keith-Davies | Sutton Mutton | 8 | 180 | 42 | 24 | 30 |
Shauna Barstow | Park Taverners | 7 | 174 | 36 | 15 | 15 |
Tim Bloor | Pack Horse Bowling Club | 7 | 174 | 36 | 12 | 30 |
Kenny Davenport-Slater | Brewers Arms | 8 | 174 | 30 | 15 | 18 |
Simon Rumsey | Sutton Club | 8 | 174 | 27 | 12 | 18 |
Geoff Parkin | Harrington 'B' | 7 | 171 | 33 | 9 | 27 |
Wk | Setters | Difficulty | Balance | Ent'ment | Total | Last Yr | ||
1 | 7 | Spec | Royal Oak | 9.55 | 9.39 | 5.15 | 24.09 | 8.43 |
2 | 1 | GK | Rushton Diamonds | 10.00 | 6.06 | 6.28 | 22.34 | 18.63 |
3 | 4 | GK | Waters Green Rams | 7.11 | 8.80 | 6.20 | 22.11 | 18.84 |
4 | 4 | Spec | Park Timers | 10.00 | 5.60 | 6.47 | 22.07 | 18.44 |
5 | 6 | Spec | Queens | 5.54 | 9.67 | 6.03 | 21.23 | 15.92 |
6 | 1 | Spec | Rushton Diamonds | 8.10 | 6.20 | 6.67 | 20.98 | |
7 | 2 | GK | Dolphin Dragons | 5.74 | 8.80 | 5.65 | 20.19 | 17.65 |
8 | 7 | GK | Royal Oak | 3.16 | 9.91 | 5.98 | 19.05 | 17.10 |
9 | 3 | Spec | British Flag | 2.64 | 9.27 | 6.03 | 17.95 | 14.50 |
10 | 2 | Spec | Sutton Mutton | 6.27 | 6.68 | 4.11 | 17.06 | 8.61 |
11 | 9 | GK | Broken Cross Club | 5.43 | 7.18 | 4.43 | 17.05 | 18.23 |
12 | 6 | GK | Queens | 5.47 | 1.94 | 5.86 | 13.27 | 21.09 |
13 | 8 | Spec | Brewers Arms | 0.00 | 9.34 | 3.86 | 13.20 | (8.05) |
14 | 5 | GK | Sutton Club | 6.57 | 0.00 | 6.11 | 12.68 | 21.28 |
15 | 9 | Spec | Robin Hood | 1.60 | 6.49 | 4.37 | 12.45 | (15.73) |
16 | 3 | GK | British Flag | 2.49 | 4.81 | 5.04 | 12.35 | |
17 | 5 | Spec | Sutton Club | 3.42 | 0.00 | 6.19 | 9.61 | |
18 | 8 | GK | Nags Head | 0.00 | 4.72 | 4.08 | 8.80 | (15.49) |
For the full spreadsheet, please click here.
The good news about this week's questions is that (according to the spreadsheet) they were very well balanced when taken as a whole. The Specialists showed a moderate bias towards the teams that went second, but the General Knowledge showed a slightly lesser bias towards those that went second (i.e. "first first"). Overall, the spreadsheet found the questions to be perfectly balanced; teams on both sides scored on average 97% of their average scores.
The Broken Cross Club's General Knowledge questions were only slightly harder than average (and indeed gained a better than average score for Difficulty), but in the Robin Hood's Specialist set teams scored only 90% of their average scores. The hardest lot of all was in the Specialist questions, for teams that went "first first" – who scored (on average) only 87% of their averages. Those that went "second first" scored 93% on their selection.
The questions didn't go down too well in the Entertainment stakes; the General Knowledge set are currently 14th (out of 18) on that count and the Specialists are 15th.
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