Macclesfield Quiz League |
Question Setters' Trophy |
2022–3 |
A League |
B League |
C League |
Full News & Views |
Week | Setters | Difficulty | Balance | Ent'ment | Total | Last Yr | ||
1 | 16 | Spec | Park Taverners | 10.00 | 8.78 | 7.22 | 26.00 | 19.42 |
2 | 10 | GK | Park Timers | 9.27 | 9.81 | 6.85 | 25.93 | 22.99 |
3 | 1 | GK | Nags Head 'B' | 10.00 | 8.02 | 7.85 | 25.87 | 21.64 |
4 | 10 | Spec | Park Timers | 9.19 | 8.75 | 7.27 | 25.21 | (—) |
5 | 15 | Spec | Waters Green Weavers | 8.08 | 9.19 | 7.25 | 24.51 | 21.69 |
6 | 11 | Spec | Harrington Academicals | 7.67 | 8.40 | 7.27 | 23.34 | 20.88 |
7 | 12 | Spec | Pack Horse Bowling Club | 6.21 | 9.12 | 6.75 | 22.08 | 15.35 |
8 | 2 | Spec | Sutton Club | 5.56 | 9.95 | 6.46 | 21.98 | 23.38 |
9 | 14 | Spec | Sutton Mutton | 6.81 | 8.07 | 6.21 | 21.09 | (—) |
10 | 8 | Spec | Poachers | 6.33 | 7.96 | 6.79 | 21.07 | 19.68 |
11 | 6 | GK | Dolphin Hammers | 5.22 | 9.71 | 5.67 | 20.60 | (—) |
12 | 1 | Spec | Nags Head 'B' | 9.45 | 2.67 | 8.16 | 20.29 | 19.80 |
13 | 2 | GK | Sutton Club | 4.62 | 9.99 | 5.68 | 20.28 | (—) |
14 | 17 | Spec | Chester Road Tavern | 7.21 | 5.33 | 7.10 | 19.64 | 22.70 |
15 | 13 | Spec | Dolphin | 4.50 | 9.46 | 6.47 | 19.51 | 8.13 |
16 | 16 | GK | Park Taverners | 6.36 | 6.87 | 5.87 | 19.10 | (—) |
17 | 12 | GK | Pack Horse Bowling Club | 8.86 | 3.64 | 6.41 | 18.91 | (—) |
18 | 13 | GK | Dolphin | 5.71 | 6.58 | 5.54 | 18.76 | 17.80 |
19 | 8 | GK | Poachers | 4.13 | 8.72 | 5.77 | 18.62 | 7.85 |
20 | 15 | GK | Waters Green Weavers | 4.25 | 7.70 | 6.12 | 18.08 | 20.94 |
21 | 5 | Spec | Harrington Diamonds | 5.18 | 7.83 | 5.39 | 17.63 | 23.04 |
22 | 5 | GK | Harrington Diamonds | 4.70 | 7.83 | 5.10 | 17.36 | 14.09 |
23 | 6 | Spec | Dolphin Hammers | 6.87 | 4.16 | 6.33 | 17.36 | 11.27 |
24 | 3 | Spec | Queens | 5.67 | 4.66 | 6.39 | 16.72 | 13.29 |
25 | 18 | Spec | Plough Horntails | 3.35 | 8.00 | 4.37 | 15.72 | |
26 | 7 | GK | Nags Head | 2.59 | 8.24 | 4.72 | 15.55 | 13.01 |
27 | 14 | GK | Sutton Mutton | 4.20 | 4.90 | 4.41 | 13.50 | 16.26 |
28 | 3 | GK | Queens | 3.79 | 3.50 | 6.18 | 13.47 | 20.02 |
29 | 4 | Spec | Waters Green Nags | 4.53 | 2.96 | 4.91 | 12.41 | 18.17 |
30 | 17 | GK | Chester Road Tavern | 5.98 | 0.00 | 6.41 | 12.39 | (–) |
31 | 11 | GK | Harrington Academicals | 4.52 | 1.94 | 5.91 | 12.37 | (–) |
32 | 18 | GK | Plough Horntails | 0.00 | 8.32 | 3.37 | 11.69 | |
33 | 7 | Spec | Nags Head | 2.02 | 3.38 | 5.18 | 10.58 | 15.87 |
34 | 4 | GK | Waters Green Nags | 2.95 | 0.59 | 4.54 | 8.08 | 23.49 |
35 | 9 | GK | Plough Horntails | 1.60 | 0.61 | 3.74 | 5.95 | 18.45 |
36 | 9 | Spec | Plough Horntails | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.50 | 2.50 | (—) |
The final results are now in, and the news is that the winners of the Cars & Vans 4U Question Setters' Trophy this year are the Park Taverners' Specialist questions, from Week 16. After Week 17 they were tied with the Nags Head 'B''s General Knowledge set from Week 1, but Week 18's questions were so out of the ordinary (see below) that the latter have dropped to third place and the runners–up re the Park Timers' General Knowledge (from Week 10). The Timers' Specialist set are in fourth place, so congratulations to them on a consistent all–round set.
This week's questions were set once again by the Plough Horntails, and the good news is that (according to the spreadsheet) the overall balance was just about perfect; each of the two individual sets were themselves pretty well balanced, with a slight bias in each half towards the teams that went first.
Most teams struggled to answer the questions however, and on average scored only 83% of their averages over the season. This makes Week 18's questions the hardest we've had, except for the Horntails' first set (Week 9). The Entertainment marks reflect this: the Specialist questions are 33rd out of 36 (with an average score of 4.37 across the Leagues) and the General Knowledge are 35th (with 3.37).
For the full spreadsheet, please click here.
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