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Some interesting (and some not so interesting) facts and records!
Lemontail:
We have seen the seasons where none of M/M or F/F teams has made any Top 3 positions in their legs, like season 6 (for M/M teams) and 28 (for F/F teams). On another note, M/F teams, to date, hasn't joined the list. This only applies to the U.S. version.
albiegato:
--- Quote ---3. Most consecutive legs in the top 3 (career)
Kristi & Jen for 11 legs (except the Partner swap leg)
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That Partner-swap leg in Season 30 is such a pain-in-the-butt for TAR statistics :dick It's up there with the inconsistent double-length legs of early seasons (are they one or two legs? does having a mat in the middle make a difference? do you count the middle point in season averages? what's counted as a middle point if there is no mat? is it counted as leg wins and last-place finishes?)
But this time for the Partner-swap: is it counted as a leg? Are the teams ranked as 1st, 1st, 3rd, 3rd, 5th, 5th, or something different? Do you count it in season averages and leg win/streak records or do you skip it? :groan:
If anyone wanna chime in on this issue, feel free the reply :tup:
RaceUntilWeDie:
--- Quote from: Karpov617 on June 04, 2019, 01:06:23 AM ---
--- Quote ---3. Most consecutive legs in the top 3 (career)
Kristi & Jen for 11 legs (except the Partner swap leg)
--- End quote ---
That Partner-swap leg in Season 30 is such a pain-in-the-butt for TAR statistics :dick It's up there with the inconsistent double-length legs of early seasons (are they one or two legs? does having a mat in the middle make a difference? do you count the middle point in season averages? what's counted as a middle point if there is no mat? is it counted as leg wins and last-place finishes?)
But this time for the Partner-swap: is it counted as a leg? Are the teams ranked as 1st, 1st, 3rd, 3rd, 5th, 5th, or something different? Do you count it in season averages and leg win/streak records or do you skip it? :groan:
If anyone wanna chime in on this issue, feel free the reply :tup:
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I would apply the tiebreaker rule, which is basically that the team who placed higher on the previous leg gets to check in first. I believe Brooke from S29 has stated this on Reddit and we've seen it play out when Abbie & Ryan and Josh & Brent stepped on the mat at the same time in Russia.
So the placements would have been:
1st: Alex & Conor
2nd: Lucas & Brittany
3rd: Evan & Henry
4th: Eric & Daniel
5th: Kristi & Jen
6th: Jessica & Cody
OR
I would go with the 1st-1st-3rd-3rd-5th-5th method. Sorry, but as impressive as Kristi & Jen's Top 3 finishes are, they don't deserve to be placed as "3rd" (if we were to use the 1st-1st-2nd-2nd-3rd-3rd method). It's called Partner Swap, the teams ended up checking in with their original partners. They did not check in as one team of 4. Also, 4 other teams did better than them that leg, so allowing them to get 3rd just to give them a record makes no sense to me.
Lemontail:
--- Quote from: Karpov617 on June 04, 2019, 01:06:23 AM ---
--- Quote ---3. Most consecutive legs in the top 3 (career)
Kristi & Jen for 11 legs (except the Partner swap leg)
--- End quote ---
That Partner-swap leg in Season 30 is such a pain-in-the-butt for TAR statistics :dick It's up there with the inconsistent double-length legs of early seasons (are they one or two legs? does having a mat in the middle make a difference? do you count the middle point in season averages? what's counted as a middle point if there is no mat? is it counted as leg wins and last-place finishes?)
But this time for the Partner-swap: is it counted as a leg? Are the teams ranked as 1st, 1st, 3rd, 3rd, 5th, 5th, or something different? Do you count it in season averages and leg win/streak records or do you skip it? :groan:
If anyone wanna chime in on this issue, feel free the reply :tup:
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About the bolded one, just check the penultimate legs, and hear what Phil says which leg is it (e.g. the eleventh Pit Stop, the twelfth Pit Stop, etc).
theschnauzers:
I treat double length legs as two legs.
As to the partner swap leg, the least unfair approach was to take the average of each racer’s arrival position at the mat. That does produce ties, but there really isn’t any way to break those. Not unprecedented, as there were some early seasons where teams tied at the mat, and there were no tiebreakers. That’s how I’ve handled it.
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