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Ranking the Teams -- A basis for comparing all teams (TAR 1 - 33)
chill_sd:
As has been pointed out, this is an interesting way of statistically ranking the teams. Unfortunately, it doesn't tell a great deal about the level of competition in a particular season.
For example, this season, 9 of the 11 teams had rankings under 6.0, 8 teams were under 5.5 and 7 teams were under 4.5, including the 8th place team. This indicates some parity among the teams.
What it doesn't tell us is if this is parity among high-level teams or if it is parity among mediocre teams, or even poor teams.
All-Stars had a similar result, with 8 of 11 teams under 5.5, 7 under 5.0 and 6 under 4.5, including the winners at 3.6.
I would venture to say that the All-Stars cast was evenly matched at a fairly high level of racing, whereas the S16 cast were evenly matched at a somewhat lower level of racing.
theschnauzers:
Consider that four teams finished within a range of .06 of a placement within each other, and three of those teams were within .03 placements:
--- Quote ---16-01 Jordan-Daniel 52/12 4.3333
16-03 Brent-Caite 52/12 4.3333
16-04 Louie-Michael 48/11 4.3636
16-08 Joseph-Heidi 22/5 4.4000
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We've had two teams in the final three finish with an identical average before (Rob/Brennan and Frank-Margarita in the first season), but they were the dominant teams in their season, I'd be hard pressed to label either Brent-Caite or Dan-Jordan as "dominant teams."
mswood:
Well no matter which team I like or don't I have to admit that I can't find fault in the teams that have won since season 12. By removing mid leg equalizers they have put the final leg in the hand of the racers and dumb luck. Now that doesn't mean I have disliked all the earlier winners (because that isn''t true), but if you win, by god I want you to have a run the leg better then any other team. I don't want you to be just the team that did good on one final task and only finished first because an equalizer mid leg erased the lead another team had on you. Thats why I love the new lay out for legs, you can build a lead, and you can lose a lead, but it isn't due to the manipulation of the producers.
Caelestor:
--- Quote from: mswood on May 10, 2010, 11:05:22 PM ---Well no matter which team I like or don't I have to admit that I can't find fault in the teams that have won since season 12. By removing mid leg equalizers they have put the final leg in the hand of the racers and dumb luck. Now that doesn't mean I have disliked all the earlier winners (because that isn''t true), but if you win, by god I want you to have a run the leg better then any other team. I don't want you to be just the team that did good on one final task and only finished first because an equalizer mid leg erased the lead another team had on you. Thats why I love the new lay out for legs, you can build a lead, and you can lose a lead, but it isn't due to the manipulation of the producers.
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I still think there should be an occasional Hours of Operation just for old times' sake.
I've always thought that TAR's strongest legs occur in the middle of the race, and that usually the finale is poor in comparison to the rest of the season. I will admit that TAR 12 has fixed a lot of the problems involved. Now if only the tasks on the final leg were more challenging (I really want to see another TAR 14-style memory task, that looked brutal).
SuzuKen:
--- Quote from: Caelestor on May 10, 2010, 11:08:21 PM ---I still think there should be an occasional Hours of Operation just for old times' sake.
I've always thought that TAR's strongest legs occur in the middle of the race, and that usually the finale is poor in comparison to the rest of the season. I will admit that TAR 12 has fixed a lot of the problems involved. Now if only the tasks on the final leg were more challenging (I really want to see another TAR 14-style memory task, that looked brutal).
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I though TAR12 was tricky enough? memory + puzzle solving IN THE COLD *brrr*
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