On this week’s Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!, there was a three-way tie between Peter Grosz, Kyrie O’Connor and Mo Rocca at the end of the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank round. Mo asked when was the last time there was a three-way tie. Well, looking at the statistics that I have been collecting, it was on 2008-09-27; where, Mo Rocca, Kyrie O’Connor and Tom Bodett tied with 14 points each. You’re welcome, Mo. :)
A bit over three years ago, I published the initial version of the Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! Statistics site. Since the site went live, I have made some changes and bug fixes over the years, but the general functionality hasn’t really changed. Another Wait Wait fan has taken some of the published statistics and ran and posted some analysis. In the post, the fan mentioned the lack of any notes on which panelist had the correct bluff and which one bluffed well enough to fool the listener, as well as displaying the points breakdown for the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank round. I have some good news and some bad news: I have collected a good number of which panelist had the correct bluff, but not for all shows nor do have I collected which panelist’s bluff was chosen. I also have the points breakdown for …
Another night, another perusal of website statistics collected by Google, and another mention of my Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! Statistics page by Peter Sagal. This time, it was a Twitter reply to another user (granted, I don’t usually frequent Twitter unless something is of interest): @ward_hegedus An obsessive concordance of our show: http://closedsrc.org/_apps/waitwaitstats/ As a Wait Wait fan… w00t! I’m glad that my obsession is paying off and it is useful to all of the other Wait Wait fans out there.