Re: Joanna Newsom Song Tournament V (2015)
Posted: 25 Jan 2016, 00:32
Just for fun, I did another little experiment using the above eight lists.
First of all, I considered only each person's top eleven (why 11? because it so happened that this eliminated all ties).
A total of 38 songs appeared in these eight top-11s.
I then tabulated these 38 using three criteria:
[1]. Number of lists appeared in
[2]. Average position is said lists (counting an arbitrary 20th position for any lists in which it didn't appear)
[3]. Total 'points' using the above lists.
Pleasingly, these three criteria all produced the same ordering, down to 11th place (excepting some ties in [1], and Divers and Cosmia being reversed on [3]). This ordering is as follows {with each song's position in the JNST shown in braces}:
[1] [2] [3]
7 05.6 192 Only Skin {1}
7 08.9 138 Anecdotes {12}
4 11.8 107 Time, As A Symptom {23}
4 13.0 092 Have One On Me {5}
4 13.3 087 Monkey & Bear {9}
4 13.4 086 Sawdust & Diamonds {11}
4 13.6 083 Emily {2}
4 13.6 078 Divers {13}
3 13.9 081 Cosmia {6}
3 14.4 073 In California {3}
3 14.8 067 Sapokanikan {4}
Three songs from the top eleven of JNST5 do not appear in the above chart:
Go Long {7}, Baby Birch {8}, and Kingfisher {10}.
First of all, I considered only each person's top eleven (why 11? because it so happened that this eliminated all ties).
A total of 38 songs appeared in these eight top-11s.
I then tabulated these 38 using three criteria:
[1]. Number of lists appeared in
[2]. Average position is said lists (counting an arbitrary 20th position for any lists in which it didn't appear)
[3]. Total 'points' using the above lists.
Pleasingly, these three criteria all produced the same ordering, down to 11th place (excepting some ties in [1], and Divers and Cosmia being reversed on [3]). This ordering is as follows {with each song's position in the JNST shown in braces}:
[1] [2] [3]
7 05.6 192 Only Skin {1}
7 08.9 138 Anecdotes {12}
4 11.8 107 Time, As A Symptom {23}
4 13.0 092 Have One On Me {5}
4 13.3 087 Monkey & Bear {9}
4 13.4 086 Sawdust & Diamonds {11}
4 13.6 083 Emily {2}
4 13.6 078 Divers {13}
3 13.9 081 Cosmia {6}
3 14.4 073 In California {3}
3 14.8 067 Sapokanikan {4}
Three songs from the top eleven of JNST5 do not appear in the above chart:
Go Long {7}, Baby Birch {8}, and Kingfisher {10}.