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2021–2 Season
Week 6

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News and Views: 2021–2 Season – Week 6 – 18 January 2022

Thanks to Dave Partington, who has 'volunteered' to post a thread on our new Forum each week and hopefully generate some discussion. This week however he was beaten to the off by Rob Parkin, who like many of you was not convinced by Elton John's alleged "number one hits in six consecutive decades". And it turns out he was right to be unconvinced!

Why not check in and see what Rob has to say? Maybe even add your own two penn'orth – and indeed return each week to follow Dave's thoughts. There's a link on the home page (bottom left).

Results

There were eight games this week, and four of them were decided by fewer than ten points. In the B League, Harrington Academicals beat the Park Taverners by 139 points to 133, while in the A League the Nags Head 'B' beat the Waters Green Weavers by 162 points to 157. The C League's closest game was a 128–125 victory for the Park Timers over the Sutton Mutton, but the closest of all was at the Dolphin, where the Poachers beat their hosts by just one point – 155–154.

In the C League, the Pack Horse Bowling Club enjoyed their first victory of the season when they played the King's Gambit. But in all fairness it was only their third game.

It was a different story for the Park Timers, who were also playing only their third game. Their narrow defeat to the Sutton Mutton was their first of the season.

Another of those narrow defeats – Park Taverners going down to the Academicals – put paid to the last remaining 100% record in the B League. The only perfect records now are held by the Queens and the Poachers; these two play each other next week, so something has to give.

Tables

Two of those aforementioned close games had repercussions at the top of the B and C League tables. In the B League the top three are now separated only by goal difference; the Academicals leapfrogged the Park Taverners thanks to their 4–point victory, but they couldn't catch the Nags Head who now lead the field.

At the top of the C League, the Sutton Mutton swapped places with their stablemates, the Sutton Club (who were on question setting and mastering duties).

Individual

Top scorer this week was Peter McBride, with a new personal best (for this season) of 51. The only other score of more than 40 was Mark Watson's 45. Top scorer in the B League was Paul Prior with 39, and best in the C League was Andrew Fenton's 36.

There's a new leader in the C League Individual table, where the Sutton Club didn't play and last week's pacemaker, Chris Butler, dropped to fifth place. Mick Graves now tops the table, and previous leader Andrew Fenton returns in third place (having dropped out of the Top Ten last week!).

There were 11 personal bests this week – 5 in the A League, and three each in the B and C Leagues. But 26 people failed to better their lowest scores of the season – 10 in the A League, 9 in the B and 7 in the C.

A League

Results

Dolphin 154 155 Poachers
Peter McBride (pb) 51 36
33
Bob Gratton
John Hargreaves (pb)
Nags Head 'B' 162 157 Waters Green Weavers
Mark Watson
Laurence Plant (pb)
45
39
36 Ian Grieve
Queen Bs 163 132 Harrington Diamonds
Neil Drummond (pb) 39 39
33
Brian Bogie
Chris Bogie (pb)

Table

  Played Won Drawn Lost Total Points
Queens 5 5 0 0 872 10
Poachers 5 5 0 0 680 10
Nags Head 'B' 5 3 0 2 652 6
Queen Bs 6 2 0 4 889 4
Dolphin 5 2 0 3 798 4
Harrington Diamonds 5 1 0 4 731 2
Waters Green Weavers 5 0 0 5 776 0

Individual Top Ten

Team Played Total Highest Lowest Week 6
Alice Walker Queens 5 240 54 42  
Alan Hodgson Dolphin 5 225 54 33 33
Haydn Thompson Queens 5 219 48 36  
Peter McBride Dolphin 5 198 51 27 51
Ian Grieve Waters Green Weavers 5 192 42 33 36
Graham Bailey Waters Green Weavers 5 177 42 30 30
Tony Browne Queen Bs 6 174 42 21 27
Ian Tams Queen Bs 6 165 36 24 27
Ashton Davies Poachers 4 162 51 21 21
Brian Bogie Harrington Diamonds 4 162 42 39 39
Neil Drummond Queen Bs 5 162 39 24 39

B League

Results

Park Taverners 133 139 Harrington Academicals
Graham Wallace
Heather Wallace (pb)
30
27
33 Dave Partington
Waters Green Lemmings 85 167 Nags Head
Bob Langstaff 24 39
36
33
Paul Prior
Andy Johnson
Ian Musgrave (pb)
Chester Road Tavern 126 156 Dolphin Dragons
Jim Moores (pb) 30 30
30
Liz Horrocks
Dave Barber

Table

Played Won Drawn Lost Total Points
Nags Head 5 4 0 1 841 8
Harrington Academicals 5 4 0 1 774 8
Park Taverners 5 4 0 1 716 8
Dolphin Dragons 5 3 0 2 789 6
Plough Horntails 5 2 0 3 701 4
Waters Green Lemmings 5 1 0 4 520 2
Chester Road Tavern 6 0 0 6 672 0

Individual Top Ten

Team Played Total Highest Lowest Week 6
Paul Prior Nags Head 5 204 42 39 39
Dave Partington Harrington Academicals 5 177 42 30 33
Andy Johnson Nags Head 5 168 42 27 36
Dave Barber Dolphin Dragons 5 168 42 27 30
Rob Parkin Harrington Academicals 5 165 39 27 27
Liz Horrocks Dolphin Dragons 4 162 48 30 30
Graham Wallace Park Taverners 5 150 36 27 30
Ian Musgrave Nags Head 5 150 33 24 33
Malcolm Asquith Plough Horntails 5 147 33 18  
Anne Jeater Plough Horntails 5 144 42 18  

C League

Results

Pack Horse Bowling Club 99 65 King's Gambit
Tim Bloor (pb) 27 18
12
Sam Barker (pb)
Helen Hughes (pb)
Sutton Mutton 128 125 Park Timers
Mick Graves 27 36 Andrew Fenton

Table

Played Won Drawn Lost Total Points
Sutton Mutton 4 3 1 0 517 7
Sutton Club 4 2 1 1 565 5
Park Timers 3 2 0 1 414 4
Pack Horse Bowling Club 3 1 0 2 326 2
King's Gambit 4 0 0 4 346 0

Individual Top Ten

Team Played Total Highest Lowest Week 6
Mick Graves Sutton Mutton 4 108 36 21 27
Mike Proctor Sutton Mutton 4 102 33 18 24
Andrew Fenton Park Timers 3 99 39 24 36
Wynne Keith–Davies Sutton Mutton 4 99 27 24 24
Chris Butler Sutton Club 4 93 27 18  
Simon Rumsey Sutton Club 3 87 36 21  
Wendy Brown Sutton Club 4 87 24 21  
John Poyser Park Timers 3 84 30 24 24
John Green Sutton Club 3 75 33 21  
Michael Taylor King's Gambit 3 69 24 21  

Cars & Van 4U Question Setters' Trophy

  Week   Setters Difficulty Balance Ent'ment Total Last Yr
1 3 GK Waters Green Weavers 8.91 9.16 7.00 25.08 11.37
2 4 GK Cock Inn 6.54 8.99 6.56 22.11 (21.38)
3 1 GK Nags Head 'B' 7.71 5.81 7.67 21.18 25.60
4 1 Spec Nags Head 'B' 7.40 5.53 7.06 19.99 23.74
5 6 Spec Sutton Club 5.09 7.11 6.42 18.62 (18.04)
2 GK Shamrock Bar 7.15 5.55 6.06 18.76 11.51
7 2 Spec Harrington Academicals 6.73 5.26 6.33 18.34 20.57
8 5 Spec Harrington Diamonds 5.29 6.03 6.78 18.10 21.29
9 3 Spec Waters Green Weavers 6.69 4.77 6.11 17.56 18.04
10 5 GK Harrington Diamonds 5.74 4.26 6.42 16.42 16.28
11 4 Spec Park Taverners 6.95 1.13 6.33 14.41 13.42
12 6 GK Plough Horntails 5.48 2.58 5.78 13.84 (7.62)

Both sets scored average marks for Difficulty, with most teams scoring close to their average marks. Best performance was by the Chester Road Tavern, whose total of 126 was 124% of their average; the only teams that really seemed to struggle were the Waters Green Lemmings, who were a player short again, and the Sutton Mutton.

Both sets favoured the teams that went "second first". The bias was particularly pronounced in the General Knowledge, when those teams (the ones that went "second first") scored on average 104% of their average scores while those that went "first first" managed only 92%. This is reflected in the Balance scores – as shown in the table.

The Entertainment marks tell a similar story. As in the overall table above, the Sutton Club's score of 6.42 puts them equal sixth out of twelve, while the Plough Horntails were the first setters to get less than 6 for Entertainment this season.

For the full spreadsheet, please click here.

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