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Explanation of stats used in the commentaries (compiled originally by Tom22)Note: These are normally only found in the older commentaries.Do you see this…
Stats after Round 1 Offer:
£8,500 Mean: £25,274.51
Offer (%): 33.63%
Fair Deal: £7,667.68
Cash left on board: £429,666.61
Volatility: 1.39
Board balance: -17
… and think what the hell?
Well here is some sort of guide!
Stats after Round X: So the stats come after every offer has been made. Round 1 at 17 box, 2 at 14 box, 3 at 11 box, 4 at 8 box, 5 at 5 box and Round 6 at 2 box and the final offer.
Mean: The mean is simply just the sum of all the remaining amounts divided by how many amounts are left. (On a full board this is £25,712.
12)
Offer (%): This measures how good the offer is by taking the offer that’s just been made divided by the mean multiplied by 100 to gain a percentage. At the moment (Show 754 – 800 thanks to StatsMan) the benchmarks for the offers are…
Round 1 offers: 24% of the mean
Round 2 offers: 28% of the mean
Round 3 offers: 31% of the mean
Round 4 offers: 34% of the mean
Round 5 offers: 44% of the mean
Round 6 offers: 71% of the mean
Using these figures you can tell when an offer is made how generous it is, although with the recent run of bad boards and cautious players these figures are a bit lower than normal.
Fair Deal: The Fair deal stat is a bit more complicated than the previous but it does provide an interesting insight into how good the offer is. It is measured by taking the average of the square root of every amount left on the board which is then squared, on a full board the fair deal is £9,215.
40.
Cash Left on Board: This is just simply the total amount of cash left on the board and can be used to measure how good the board is. (On a full board this is £565,666.
61)
Volatility: Volatility is simply how dangerous the board is and is measured by dividing the highest amount left on the board with the cash left on the board minus the highest amount left. (On a full board this is 0.79)
Board Balance:This measures which way the board is swinging too. Each amount is given a value, the blues (1p to £750) from 11 to 1, the reds (£1,000 to £250,000) from 1 to 11. These values are totalled up and the total of the blues is taken from the reds. (Obviously on a full board this is going to be 0, but at 11 box if it is the perfect game the balance would be 66 (the max) and if it is the disaster game the balance would be -66 (the min))
Board The board is the board and is squashed down at the same time as the show….
Thanks to
Bothers Bar, where most of the stats have come from since they stopped doing their commentaries, and members like KP and StatsMan.
FAQ
Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 3:03 pm Author: h2005 Post subject: Deal or No Deal SHOWS ARCHIVE
