User:Mglovesfun/Countdown statistics

This page is not a Countdownwiki article but rather a subpage of User:Mglovesfun designed to work out a few statistics which at the moment do not merit an individual page on the Countdownwiki, but may do in the future.

Octochamp head-to-heads (Since Series 46)

A debate broke out on C4countdown about whether scores matter or it's just winning that matters. As evidence, I compared the number of times that two Octochamps had played each other and whether the highest seeded one had won or not. I intend to reproduce those statistics here. For brevity's sake, I'm counting Series 46 viscounts as octochamps, and counting from then onwards, ergo ignoring 9-round games. This list counts a player's octochamp score only, and not any points scored in quarter or semi-finals. It also doesn't include non-octochamps, which would require more effort.

Higher scoring octochamp victories

1. Paul Ryan beat Ian McMenzie
2. Ben Wilson beat Paul Ryan
3. Chris Wills beat Brenda Jolley
4. Tom Hargreaves beat Mike Pullin
5. Chris Wills beat Rupert Stokoe
6. Tom Hargreaves beat Kevin Thurlow
7. Chris Wills beat Tom Hargreaves
8. Danny Hamilton beat Julian Wilkinson
9. Julian Fell beat Danny Hamilton
10. Grace Page beat Joe Zubaidi
11. Julian Fell beat Grace Page
12. Stewart Holden beat Richard Pay
13. Jack Welsby beat David Thirlwall
14. Mark Tournoff beat John Gray
15. John Hunt beat Steven Moir
16. Paul Gallen beat John Hunt
17. Jon O'Neill beat Judith Young
18. Richard Heald beat Ross Allatt
19. John Brackstone beat Richard Heald
20. John Mayhew beat Jon O'Neill
21. Paul Howe beat Keith Maynard
22. Matthew Shore beat Michael Bowden
23. Conor Travers beat Paul Howe
24. Conor Travers beat Matthew Shore
25. Tony Warren beat Chris McHenry
26. Richard Brittain beat Stu Horsey
27. Richard Brittain beat Tony Warren
28. Jeffrey Hansford beat David Von Geyer
29. David Edwards beat James Roberts
30. Craig Beevers beat David Edwards
31. Craig Beevers beat Jeffrey Hansford
32. David O'Donnell beat Jonathan Coles

Lower scoring octochamp victories

1. Kevin Thurlow beat Lee Hartley
2. Rupert Stokoe beat Wendy Roe
3. Joe Zubaidi beat George Greenhough
4. Richard Pay beat Nik Von Uexkull
5. Mark Tournoff beat Jack Welsby
6. Mark Tournoff beat Paul Gallen
7. John Mayhew beat John Brackstone
8. Matthew Shore beat Jon Corby
9. Nick Wainwright beat Jean Webby

Conclusion

The Octochamp with the highest points total wins about 78% of the time, i.e. more than 3 times out of 4.