{"id":879,"date":"2010-03-15T21:14:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T21:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=879"},"modified":"2010-03-15T21:26:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T21:26:51","slug":"stat-attack-on-the-krypton-factor-part-deux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=879","title":{"rendered":"Stat Attack on The Krypton Factor Part Deux"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just before I start, I’m disappointed that last night’s Minute to Win It<\/strong> is currently nowhere to be “found”. Sort it out, America!<\/p>\n

Also I can’t read the lyrics to our Eurovision entry (“You bring the sunshine, I’ll bring the good times!”) without adding “…and I’ll get to Scotland befoooorrre you!” in my mind. I largely suspect this is just me now but you’ll all be doing it by May.<\/p>\n

Also also, it’s the last night of Man in Box<\/strong> <\/a>this evening, the thing that literally nobody’s talking about. I am interested in what happens tomorrow with the reveal, though.<\/p>\n

Anyway, you might remember me doing a post<\/a> before this year’s Krypton Factor<\/strong> attempting to lay to rest the idea that the general knowledge round is rather unfairly weighted and came to the conclusion that although it might look like that sometimes, generally speaking the numbers suggested otherwise – it gives the impression that anyone can win (and that is, in fact, the point), but the person leading going into it still usually wins.<\/p>\n

That was based on KF 2009 numbers, where the show was five rounds and the GK round was 70 seconds. This year there were only four rounds and the length of the GK round had increased to 90 seconds. Now is it properly game changing?<\/p>\n

Here are the numbers, numbers in brackets are the scores at the end of the round. The first heat ended in a tie, I’m not including the result of that for statistical purposes.<\/p>\n

Heat 1: <\/strong>26 (30), 16 (16), 20 (30), 10 (22)
\nHeat 2: <\/strong>22 (23), 16 (16), 14 (19), 16 (25)
\nHeat 3: <\/strong>10 (16), 14 (23), 14 (14), 30 (36)
\nHeat 4: <\/strong>18 (27), 18 (23), 14 (14), 16 (15)
\nHeat 5: <\/strong>16 (26), 18 (23), 14 (12), 22 (22)
\nHeat 6: <\/strong>10 (18), 22 (20), 20 (29), 18 (22)
\nHeat 7: <\/strong>16 (16), 18 (20), 22 (26), 12 (11)
\nSemi 1: <\/strong>18 (20), 10 (13), 20 (21), 18 (25)
\nSemi 2: <\/strong>16 (20), 14 (21), 14 (14), 26 (38)
\nFinal: <\/strong>20 (19), 18 (27), 14 (26), 14 (22)<\/p>\n

What does this show?<\/p>\n