Adam Gillard Paul's superb 195 has lifted Hypertouch Letters Attack away from the 100% formats into 64th place on its own. | |
Charlie Reams Italian Letters Attack has also been elevated from the 100% zone, nice work Anglo. | |
Adam Gillard Snapshot of the 4 records I set in the last 24 hours - WAS: 36th Spoilage 9 10%; 37th Unlimited Flat 9 12%; 45th Spoilage 15 21%; 54th Spoilage Letters Attack 39%. NOW (in ascending order): 32nd Spoilage 15 6%; 27th Spoilage LA 4%; 18th Unlimited Flat 9 3%; 9th Spoilage 9 1%. Going to be proper difficult to beat that last one even with a following wind, despite not having solved the conundrum. | |
Adam Gillard Not many formats left at 100% now. Good work from Amie on the Russian 9 and 15 rounders. | |
Jon O'Neill Is it me or is this list upside-down to what you expect coming in? Or should it be called "Records by unbeatability?" | |
Adam Gillard Ascending beatability; makes sense to me. | |
Jon O'Neill Fair enough, you probably look at this page more than anyone. | |
Gevin Chapwell Doesn't make sense to me. Records by x would normally mean descending. Top scores would start with the highest, for example. So yeah, it is upside-down. | |
Adam Gillard Are goaty formats' beatability determined by max available or metamax available? Either way, Goatdown Standard looks surprisingly beatable. | |
Adam Gillard Well done Bob! Down to 1% beatability now. | |
Stephen Moore What does 1 in ∞ mean? | |
Stephen Moore It updated overnight - it is now beatable one in 3,314 games! | |
Catherine Mullan Why is that? | |
Stephen Moore Whoops, I was looking at the Junior 9 Rounder score, not the Junior 15, in 23rd at 1 in 243. | |
Jon Stitcher Players don't get accused of cheating, they get discovered cheating. | |
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Gevin Chapwell Just looking at this, I was thinking that the beatability becomes a bit inaccurate when it's very low. Octorock 9 is 1 in infinity, even though it is beatable, presumably because a higher max has never been seen. So maybe rather than using stats from whole games, a calculation that uses round-by-round information might be more accurate. | |
Johnny Canuck Agreed that the 1 in ∞ figure is misleading, especially for a rather rare format-variant combination. Perhaps a question mark ("1 in ?") or the current number of attempts followed by a plus sign ("1 in 1,009+") would be more suitable. | |
Mike Lee Are these beatability figures getting adjusted now that we’ve just had the 2024 dictionary cull??? | |
Matthew Brockwell These figures are calculated by the empirical data of actual games played over all time. Given how rarely some of these variants are played I don’t think it is worth it, they will naturally adjust over time, and already include pre-2015 data. | |
Callum Todd Yes I believe the formula is something like:
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See also: list of all Statland pages.
This table shows all current beatable high scores ordered by "beatability". This is defined as the proportion of games in which the maximum score is higher than the current high score. The table also shows how many games one would have to play, on average, to get even one chance to beat the current record. Formats in which the maximum possible score has already been achieved are not shown.
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