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31st August 2009
Player of the Month
Due to an access problem with the names as keys, the game, Chasing Cars, was substantially undervalued. Since this was an admin error, I will keep the original POM and award two Players of the Month for August – both scored solos in 11+ eagle point games so both are well deserved.
Milan Bujic is the joint Player of the Month for his solo in Chasing Cars. Well done Milan.
Lyle Youngblood is the joint Player of the Month for his solo in Mons. Well done Lyle.
Players at the site and news
Chasing Cars scored 11.65 in Eagle points and becomes the 6th highest solo of all time on this site. This was an excellent result for Milan in his third game to finish on this site.
All players with a last date played of August 2007 or older have been removed apart from those who are active in a game. Those active but with an earlier date will have an * against the date. The records have been archived so that if anyone returns, they will be fully restored when they complete a new game. Special mention to John O’Donnell whose date expired in June, was not removed in July (due to time pressures on me) but was removed in August but finished a game in August to be reinstated.
This continual archiving has shown that the site is shrinking with the number of active players at 330. I hoped that this was beginning to level out between 300 and 400 but the trend is still downward.
August was another quietish month with only four games finishing. We had three solos and one draw. If other games have finished, they will be included next month.
766 games have finished now and there are now about 330 active players on the current Eagle rating with a non-zero score.
Any player who had not finished a game since August 2007 has been moved to the archives. Players will be moved off monthly now – unless they are currently in a game. Any player expired players currently in a game will have an * against his date.
Any anarchies automatically go to zero, even if they have previous Eagle points.
It is worth noting that the number of active players will not increase over the year and then be reset in January. A more strict interpretation of the 2 year rule means that anyone included in the EAGLE table will have finished a game in the last 24 months or be currently active in a game.
Jim O’Neil has been running the rating system from the beginning of 2008.
If you want to read all about the awards for 2008 and the statistics-summary for 2008, go to the Past Years-section.
The EAGLE system.
The Eagle contribution for each position will be used in calculating Eagle Game scores for all games finishing from 2009 onwards. The individual contribution is included in the latest Eagle Tables.
Games processed for last month
Mons
Eagle Points: 11.01
Russian Solo for Lyle Youngblood.
Chasing Cars
Eagle Points: 11.65
French Solo for Milan Bujic.
Spatha
Eagle Points: 6.23
Austrian Solo for Lawrence McDonald.
A Day at the Races
Eagle Points: 3.91
Two way draw between Scott Mckeen and David Ryan.
Changes in the Premier League
Lawrence McDonald threatens to break into the top 5, moving from position 15 to 7 having only completed 7 games. Is this a threat to Tim? Lyle Youngblood has a spectacular entrance into the Premier moving from 110 to 29. Another one to watch is Milan Bujic who enters the Premier at position 39 from position 154 after only 3 games.
Other minor movements took place.
Changes in other Leagues
Many upward movements in the other leagues, too numerous to mention.
If I have missed a special leap in these leagues, let me know and I will add it.
10 most valuable Solo-victories
Below are the 10 games with most Eagle Points. When 2 games have the same amount of points, then the game that finished last will be placed higher.
PS: Since the system was changed 1st January 2007 (top 300 increase game score, earlier it was just top 100), some of the 20 games below have been given a higher score than the games actually got, so that it is easier to compare games before and after the rule-change.
1) Queen of the Reich (13.50) Anders Granås Kjøstvedt (2005)
2) Shogun (13.25) Timothy Sweeney (2003)
3) One (12.50) Timothy Sweeney (2005)
4) Beagle (12.25) Lars Topholm (2005)
5) Scelerophobia (12.25) John Engstrom (2003)
6) Chasing Cars (11.65) Milan Bujic (2009)
7) Bull (11.50) Ariel Max Sánchez Romero (2006)
8) Greyhound (11.50) Brian Koon (2005)
9) Leaf Fish (11.26) Tim Sweeney (2009)
10) Roll of the Dice (11.25) Jim O’Neil (2007)
10 most valuable draws
Below are the 10 games with most Eagle Points. You might learn quite a lot if you read the endgame-statements from the top draws and solo-games.
1) Cuckoo`s Nest (13.50) Pete Smith, Jonathan Langman, Patrick D`Hyon, Duncan Proffitt (2005)
2) Deliberate Misorder (13.25) John Nham, Karl Georg Øhrn, Kester Bearne, Matt MacDougall, Thomas Hilton (2004)
3) Gates of Eden (13.00) Jan Willem Omlo, Robert Lange, Simon Berry, Wayne Read, Lars Topholm (2005)
4) Winners Game (13.00) Richard Hucknall, Thomas Hilton, Steve Turner, Anselm Kersten, Timothy Sweeney (2002)
5) Mutiny (12.50) Eelco van Duijnhoven, James Ogle, John Wright and Dirk Kessler(2008)
6) Double Time March (12.50) Lee Simpson, Martin Sanders, Jan Willem Omlo (2003)
7) Aventine (12.25) Walter de Oude, Patrick D`Hyon, Eelco van Duijnhoven, David Malloch (2005)
8) Fight the Good Fight (12.25) Tom Craig, Lee Simpson, Patrick D'Hyon, Michael Halpin (2003)
9) Valentine(12.00) Bruce Richard, Gary Bledsoe and Lars Topholm (2008)
10) Hampton Court(12.00) Jonathan Langman, Martin Sanders, Timothy Sweeney (2007)
Country-ranking
Below is the ranking for the 7 nations. 100 points is average, that is, a country with 100 points has 1/7-part of all Eagle Points given. 140 means 40 pct. more than average, and 75 means 25 pct. below average.
Russia re-establishes itself at the top– Italy and Turkey swap places at the bottom.
1) 120.20 Russia
2) 116.40 France
3) 104.84 Germany
4) 94.00 England
5) 89.79 Austria
6) 87.41 Italy
7) 87.36 Turkey
Anarchies
There has been an average of 1.11 (15.9%) dropouts per game – same as last month.
Solos and draws
287 games have ended with a solo (37.5%), 479 have ended with a draw (62.5%.). This month there was 1 draw and 3 solo. The draws are distributed like this :
2-way: 25.3 pct.
3-way: 37.2 pct.
4-way: 24.8 pct.
5-way: 10.9 pct.
6-way: 1.9 pct.
7-way: No games
Solo-table
The distribution of solos :
1) 66 Russia
2) 51 Germany
3) 46 France
4) 42 Austria
5) 29 Italy
6) 27 Turkey
7) 26 England
Players results overall
15.9 pct. Anarchy
24.6 pct. Elimination
25.0 pct. Survival
29.2 pct. Part of a draw
5.4 pct. Solo
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