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Ranking the Teams -- A basis for comparing all teams (TAR 1 - 33)
mswood:
They've had them before, and it with the performance of teams last week leaving the field rather far apart it did leave little room for improvement. A little lift there, a little fall there. Thats why I hope (and with this season who knows) we get departure times to give us a better idea of how teams actually performed.
I like to compare this to the Mika & Canaan meltdown episode last year. In that episode (thanks to the fast forward on the previous leg) Meghan & Cheyne got first. Yet when you actually look at the time it took to complete they were actually fourth a rather huge difference.
This leg actually really reminded me of leg 4 in season 12. As it also was a leg with no equalizers and it also featured the very first U-Turn. Unlike this season it was used for pure strategy, we aren't doing great we know one team is behind us lets use it on them. Lorena & Jason being nearly two hours back had no chance. I was honestly surprised that this wasn't used on Jordan and Jeff as a way to really sink them. As it stands I can't believe that with over a two hour difference (from the start) an extra task and their inability to get from point A to B that Joe and Heidi could not make up that in one Detour. I mean seriously this had to take Joe & Heidi at least 3 to 4 hours (at least before getting Phil). Just an insane amount of time to complete a task. (and they didn't do that).
georgiapeach:
Careful here about spoilers...this is a discussion thread. :kuss:
theschnauzers:
Team This Week Week 5 Week 4 Week 3 Week 2 Trend
Jet-Cord 2.6666 16/6 2.4000 12/5 (2.2500) (1.6666) (2.0000) Stable
Steve-Allison 3.3333 20/6 3.4000 17/5 (4.7500) (4.3333) (5.5000) Stable
Carol-Brandy 4.0000 24/6 4.4000 22/5 (4.2500) (4.0000) (4.5000) Stable
Louie-Michael 4.8333 29/6 5.6000 28/5 (6.7500) (8.3333) (9.0000) Rising Sharply
Brent-Caite 6.1666 37/6 6.2000 31/5 (6.2500) (6.0000) (5.5000) Stable
Jordan-Daniel 6.1666 37/6 6.4000 32/5 (7.0000) (7.3333) (8.0000) Rising
Jeff-Jordan 5.6666 34/6
Joseph-Heidi 4.4000 22/5
Monique-Shawne 5.3333 16/3
Jody-Shannon 10.0000 20/2
Adrian-Dana 11.0000 11/1
The six remaining teams stayed in the same order as last week, and with Jeff-Jordan's elimination in France, the teams are fairly evenly spaced, except for the equal score for Brent-Caite and Dan-Jordan. The rise for Louie-Michael may be less impressive than it looks. Their lead leaving the pit stop wasn't that large, and they had problems with the tasks that offset their speed in navigation. Carol-Brandy also had very few problems in navigation, and fewer problems in the tasks. Steve-Allie lost some time due to the damaged bumper, and I'll bet that they didn't lose more than 15 minutes due to the duct tape. Jet-Cord had their navigation problems because they waited too long to check for the winery location, but they are quick to recover though. And there isn't much question any longer that the two of them are very efficient with tasks. Needle0in-a-haystack are not a problem. I'll bet they won't assume they know where a riddled location is after this week. (I love the fact that this week's clues mostly required teams to ask locals for assistance over and over and over.)
slayton:
Thanks for your calculations, theschnauzers.
I just wanted to add my own best-case scenario projections.
Projected average placement for each team if that team ends up running the table on a 12-leg race:
[*]Jet & Cord 1.8333 (22/12)
[*]Steve & Allie 2.1666 (26/12)
[*]Carol & Brandy 2.5000 (30/12)
[*]Louie & Michael 2.9166 (35/12)
[*]Brent & Caite 3.5833 (43/12)
[*]Dan & Jordan 3.5833 (43/12)
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No team in TAR16 will beat Eric & Jeremy's performance.
slayton:
theschnauzers, I noticed that Gary/Matt are listed as 15-04 instead of 15-05.
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