Cars & Vans 4U Question Setters' Trophy: 2021–2

This competition is decided on small margins, and it was another week of readjustment in the Question Setters' Trophy table (sponsored by Cars & Vans 4U). Last week's leaders, the Park Timers (runners–up in 2017–18) fell away to fourth place, and the winners of the trophy this season are the Waters Green Lemmings, for their General Knowledge questions from Week 8. Although they only finished in 14th place for Entertainment, they were very well balanced and scored well for Difficulty. This has been a difficult season for the Lemmings, and we hope that this will go some way towards making up for their struggles.

	Week		Setters	Difficulty	Balance	Ent'ment	Total	Last Yr
1	8	GK	Waters Green Lemmings	9.09	8.17	6.22	23.49	(10.57)
2	6	Spec	Sutton Club	7.47	9.48	6.42	23.38	9.60
3	5	Spec	Harrington Diamonds	7.34	8.92	6.78	23.04	21.29
4	12	GK	Park Timers	8.02	8.54	6.44	22.99	(22.15)
5	15	Spec	Chester Road Tavern	8.31	7.70	6.69	22.70	(26.70)
6	3	Spec	Waters Green Weavers	9.77	5.81	6.11	21.69	17.48
7	1	GK	Nags Head 'B'	7.15	6.81	7.67	21.64
8	3	GK	Waters Green Weavers	10.00	3.94	7.00	20.94	11.37
9	2	Spec	Harrington Academicals	10.00	4.55	6.33	20.88	20.57
10	13	GK	Queens	6.22	7.90	5.89	20.02	18.95
11	1	Spec	Nags Head 'B'	9.78	2.97	7.06	19.80
12	9	Spec	Poachers	6.28	7.69	5.72	19.68	14.53
13	4	Spec	Park Taverners	9.64	3.45	6.33	19.42	(13.42)
14	8	Spec	Pack Horse Bowling Club	7.03	6.24	6.11	19.41	(15.35)
15	4	GK	Cock Inn	6.15	6.58	6.56	19.29	21.36
16	6	GK	Plough Horntails	4.25	8.43	5.78	18.45	(7.62)
17	10	Spec	Nags Head	8.38	3.28	6.50	18.17	22.38
18	11	GK	Dolphin	3.73	8.92	5.14	17.80	15.60
19	7	Spec	Queen Bs	4.57	5.36	5.94	15.87	18.11
20	2	GK	Shamrock Bar	7.30	1.67	6.06	15.03	(13.55)
21	5	GK	Harrington Diamonds	4.21	3.47	6.42	14.09	16.28
22	13	Spec	Queens	6.76	0.00	6.53	13.29	20.90
23	7	GK	Queen Bs	3.74	3.94	5.33	13.01	10.99
24	12	Spec	Dolphin Dragons	0.79	4.31	6.17	11.27	(20.49)
25	11	Spec	Dolphin	0.00	2.82	5.31	8.13	20.37
26	9	GK	Poachers	2.74	0.00	5.11	7.85	19.63
27	10	GK	King's Gambit	0.02	1.36	5.11	6.49	7.40
28	14	GK	Sutton Mutton	0.00	3.11	3.00	6.11	(16.26)

It was very much a game of two halves for the Week 14 questions. The Specialists, set by the Chester Road Tavern, scored well all round and finished in fifth place; but it was a very different story for the General Knowledge, set by the Sutton Mutton, which finished in last place.

The Specialist questions were slightly easier than average; teams scored, on average, 103% of their average scores for the season. The balance was pretty good, with a slight bias in favour of the teams that went "second first " (105% as opposed to 101%). They also scored well for Entertainment, with the averages across the three Leagues ranging from 6.83 in the B League to 6.50 in the C League.

The General Knowledge questions were the hardest we've had this season. Teams scored, on average, only 85% of their averages for the season. These also showed a bias towards the teams that went "second first", who scored 89% of their averages as opposed to 81% for their opponents. The Entertainment marks were quite consistent across the three Leagues, ranging from 2.50 in the B League to 3.50 in the A League.

Overall, teams scored on average 92% of their average scores for the season. Those going "first first" scored only 89%, while their opponents managed 96%. On an average team score of 131, this may have made a difference of around ten points – but there were no games were this is likely to have affected the result.

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