All-Time Armistice Day averages:

[KevinR]

Ok. I have had a lot of time on my hands the last few days due to an illness. I have spent some time adding some facts and figures together and have come up with averages for every player who has participated in at least TWO Armistice Day Tournaments.

I am also in the process of finishing up doing the same for the Red Baron Fight.

When I am done I will post the totals for the Red Baron Fight and also I will post the totals for all players in both major Indy tourneys combined. This will be known as the "Big Game" averages.

I did this for my own entertainment and thought I would share the results here.
Note: I calculated these averages based on the current Indy rules for scoring. Meaning that for those who would have had negative scores in the days when negative scores were possible, I calculated that player's score for that day as a "0" as it would be now.
(This turned out to have little to no effect on the overall rankings.)

Without further ado, here are the rankings and averages for every player who has competed in at least TWO Armistice Day Indy Squadron Championships:

Rank/Player/ Points per tourney appearance

1. Terry Phillips: 110.7
2. Ben Hodgson:105.0
3. Graham Shepfer:83.2
4. Wayne Richeson:76.3
5. Kevin Richeson:75.0
6. Rick Lacy:71.3
7. Ken Mrozak:64.7
8. Stephen Skinner:64.2
9. Dory Oda:63.3
10. Scott Campbell:60.6
11. Alice Skinner:58.9
12. Cody Richeson:57.3
13. Clark Sigmund:56.0
14. Barton Stano:54.3
15. Stephen Dale Skinner:49.5
16. Wyatt Richeson:44.5
17. Scott Jones:38.2
18. George Cunningham:38.0
19. Jason Meador:28.8
20. Mike Oda:25.0
21. Brian Halberstadt:21.0
22. Scott Halberstadt:20.5

Two things that jump out at you: Will we ever see Terry and Graham again??
Also, this obviously doesn't take into account the amount of players/points available in the games played. It is just a raw average of players in their Armistice day appearances.

Enjoy!!!

Kevin

[Stephen]

Kevin, I would really like to see a chart showing how many tourneys a player participated in, in addition to the info above. That would allow us to look for trends... for instance, maybe getting high scores was easier in the squadron's early days... or maybe playing in more games tends to lower one's score. Also the date/year of their games would be helpful to see if there are any trends in WHEN a player scores higher or lower.

I love this stuff. Thanks.

Hey, if you can put this into a WORD chart, maybe I can post it on the main site? BTW, we have a fun new article on the Armistice Day Tourney coming in the next issue. Stay tuned.

[KevinR]

I have all of the info still. The only thing on the amount of tourneys participated in is that I only had the tourneys points were kept for to go by. So for example you and Dory are only counted as being in 16 Armistice Day tourneys.

[Stephen]

Yeah, I know... that kills my scoring averages because I won the first Armistice Day as well as the first RBF, but we didn't do point totals on RBF and the scores from the first championship are lost. So I lost two of my best games ever.

Still, its a lot of fun to look at this stuff. I think Bart and Rick will like it, too, because they're record keeping kinda guys.

Also, there may be a handicap on the scoring systems because under the old (society) scoring system, overall scores were a bit lower. We have existing records from 6 games under the old scoring system (2 RBF's and 4 Armistice Days before the system was abandoned) and the average winning score is only 98.3 points.

However, the average winning score over the last 6 title games (3 RBF's and 3 Armistice Days) was 150.3 points! So there is a big difference, with players in the modern era accumulating far higher per-game scoring averages than the old timers under the old scoring system.

This is reflected in the fact that 7 of the top 10 all time Armistice Day high scorers never flew under the old scoring system; only under the current system. The more I looked at it, the more I believe that the early years in the old scoring system (1989-1994) really hurt the averages of the players of that era.

[KevinR]

I agree with the averages of the old system bringing down players who played then, but I did take out the equation of negative scores and made those 0's when I was adding it up.
I think less players is more of a factor even than that. If you have 5 or 6 players there are not nearly as many possible points as if you have 10-15........
That is why my next stat will be I think even more revealing because it will show how many points each player has scored in relation to how many points were scored in the tourneys they played in.
For example, in the most recent Armistice day tourney there were a total of 798 points scored by all players. Ben's score of 129 is appx 16% of all points scored.
In the 1996 Armistice Day tourney there were a total of 281 points scored. Dory's winning total of 99 becomes all the more impressive when you see that it is 35% of all the points scored. To put that in context of this year's tourney. If the winner were to score 35% of the 798 points score, Ben would have had to score 279 points to dominate this tourney the way that Dory dominated hers............

[Stephen]

Kevin, if you'd care to put together a series of stats on Armistice and RBF (much of which already appears to be done), I'd be interested in including the stats on the dedicated web page for each. Would you like to work up a complete stat page for each event? I'll build the page of course... all you have to do is generate whatever stats you think should be there. Look up the "records" on each event's page to see what's already been done. I think your stats are a great expansion of that.

[KevinR]

Stephen, I can send it all over to you by email, but it might not be until this weekend. I am back to work now and don't have all of the free time I did last week. But I already did all the legwork, so it shouldn't take too long to type out the email and send it to you........

[Stephen]

That'd be great. Just send it when you can. If I can get it before the next issue it would help.

[Stephen]

Kevin, stats for both Armistice Day and RBF need updating, since new games have been played that date both. If you can put together fresh, updated stats for each it would be most helpful. Thanks.