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Macclesfield Quiz League |
| Question Setters' Trophy |
| 2024–5 |
| A League |
| B League |
| Full News & Views |
| Wk | Setters | Difficulty | Balance | Ent'ment | Total | Last Year | |||
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| 1 | 2 | GK | Park Timers | 8.06 | 9.34 | 9.22 | 26.62 | 25.93 | 19.98 |
| 2 | 5 | Spec | Chester Road Tavern | 9.21 | 9.62 | 7.65 | 26.48 | 22.07 | 24.30 |
| 3 | 4 | Spec | Queens of the Castle | 9.41 | 8.22 | 7.60 | 25.23 | 14.62 | 16.72 |
| 4 | 5 | GK | Chester Road Tavern | 7.27 | 8.20 | 9.03 | 24.50 | 24.08 | 26.72 |
| 5 | 2 | Spec | Park Timers | 5.87 | 7.88 | 9.69 | 23.34 | 25.21 | 24.05 |
| 6 | 3 | GK | Cotton Tree | 8.06 | 8.78 | 6.26 | 23.11 | 18.28 | 25.30 |
| 7 | 1 | GK | Nags Head 'B' | 8.50 | 7.75 | 6.67 | 22.92 | 25.63 | 23.89 |
| 8 | 3 | Spec | Cotton Tree | 6.89 | 3.96 | 5.11 | 15.96 | 15.87 | 21.07 |
| 9 | 1 | Spec | Nags Head 'B' | 2.25 | 6.86 | 2.54 | 11.65 | 17.02 | 15.99 |
| 10 | 4 | GK | Queens of the Castle | 4.38 | 0.33 | 5.04 | 9.75 | 15.74 | 13.47 |
The Chester Road Tavern's questions scored well all round: three 9s, one 8 and two 7s.
The Specialist set, according to the spreadsheet, were slightly easier than average and very well balanced; the teams going first scored (on average) 103% of their average scores, and those that went second scored 102%. This puts them very close to the average difficulty, which means an excellent score on that criterion.
The General Knowledge were quite a bit easier, but not quite so well balanced – the teams that went second (first in the Specialists) scoring 114%, and those that went first managing only 109%. They were thus a bit further away from the average difficulty, so scored less than the Specialists; and of course they scored less for Balance.
In both sets, the imbalance detected by the spreadsheet was in favour of the teams that went 'first first'. Overall, those teams scored 110% of their average scores, while those that went 'second first' scored 106%.
Both sets went down well, and are third and fourth (out of ten) in the Entertainment scores.
For the full spreadsheet, please click here.
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