Voting is now closed for set F of the final Round 4 of the VII Joanna Newsom Song Tournament 2017, and the tournament is at an end. Very many thanks to Under A CPell for her unwavering support of the tournament. Here are the final results and standings.
VII JOANNA NEWSON SONG TOURNAMENT 2017
Final Round Four, Set FPair 81 - Kingfisher
1―1 Sadie
Pair 82 - Go Long
1½―½ Emily
Pair 83 - Cosmia
2―0 Sprout And The Bean
Pair 84 - Go Long
2―0 Goose Eggs
Pair 85 - "En Gallop" (aka En Gallop!)
2―0 Soft As Chalk
Pair 86 - Anecdotes
1―1 Time, As A Symptom
Pair 87 - In California
2―0 Sprout And The Bean
Pair 88 - Emily
1―1 Have One On Me
Pair 89 - Goose Eggs
1―1 Baby Birch
Pair 90 - Time, As A Symptom
1―1 Only Skin
Pair 91 - Sawdust & Diamonds
1―1 Swansea
Pair 92 - Anecdotes
2―0 Swansea
Pair 93 - "En Gallop" (aka En Gallop!)
1―1 ’81
Pair 94 - Only Skin
2―0 Waltz Of The 101st Lightborne
Pair 95 - Divers
2―0 Baby Birch
Pair 96 - Sawdust & Diamonds
1―1 ’81
Pair 97 - Cosmia
1½―½ Waltz Of The 101st Lightborne
Pair 98 - Sadie
1―1 Soft As Chalk
Pair 99 - Divers
2―0 Have One On Me
Pair 100- Kingfisher
1―1 In California
FINAL STANDINGS (positions 1-20)- Code: Select all
Pos Song P W D L votes bfbp abp r4bp Points
01 Only Skin 10 8 2 0 18 1.81 3.12 0 13.93
=2 Divers 10 8 2 0 18 1.71 1.84 0 12.55
=2 Go Long 10 7 3 0 16 1.81 2.44 -0.2 12.55
04 Cosmia 10 5 5 0 13½ 1.81 2.76 -0.3 11.77
05 Anecdotes 10 5 5 0 14½ 1.81 2.40 -0.1 11.61
06 Emily 10 2 5 3 8 1.81 3.16 -0.2 9.27
07 In California 10 2 5 3 9 1.81 2.92 0 9.23
=8 Baby Birch 10 0 7 3 8 1.81 3.12 +0.2 8.63
=8 Time, As A Symptom 10 1 9 0 11 1.71 1.42 0 8.63
10 Have One On Me 10 0 8 2 8 1.71 2.04 0 7.75
11 Waltz Of The 101st Lightborne 10 1 6 3 9 1.71 1.76 +0.2 7.67
12 "En Gallop" (aka En Gallop!) 10 2 7 1 11 1.31 0.48 0 7.29
13 Sadie 10 2 6 2 10½ 1.31 0.84 +0.1 7.25
14 Kingfisher 10 1 6 3 8½ 1.31 1.04 +0.1 6.45
15 Goose Eggs 10 0 3 7 3 1.81 2.96 0 6.27
16 ’81 10 0 8 2 8½ 1.15 0.80 +0.1 6.05
17 Sawdust & Diamonds 10 1 5 4 7½ 1.31 1.04 +0.1 5.95
18 Sprout And The Bean 10 2 4 4 7½ 1.23 0.26 -0.1 5.39
19 Soft As Chalk 10 0 6 4 6½ 1.31 0.96 +0.1 5.37
20 Swansea 10 0 4 6 4 1.26 0.64 0 3.90
Pos = final position
Song = song title
P = pairs contested
W = pairs won
D = pairs drawn (tied)
L = pairs lost
votes = actual number of votes received
bfbp = brought forward bonus points
abp = additional bonus points
r4bp = round four bonus points
Points = points total (1 for each win + ½ for each draw + all three kinds of bonus points)
As will be seen, two positions ended up tied. Divers was not paired with Go Long at any point in this JNST, so there was no ultimate tie-breaker there. Baby Birch and Time, As A Symptom were paired, but the result was a tie, so these remain equal, too.
As can be seen, without the "additional bonus points", the order would have been somewhat different; a different order again would have resulted if the chart had been compiled only by results in the final round (with numbers of votes received as a tie-breaker). However - although I concede that this is not entirely satisfactory - it was stated in advance, and the abp was introduced to compensate for some songs having an 'easier' selection of pairings than others. For interest, the orders using these methods would have been:
Pos Official No abp Results (then Votes)
01 Only Skin Only Skin Only Skin; Divers
02 Divers; Go Long Divers =
03 = Go Long Go Long
04 Cosmia Anecdotes Anecdotes
05 Anecdotes Cosmia Cosmia
06 Emily Time AAS En Gallop; Time AAS
07 In California En Gallop =
08 BabyB; TimeAAS Sadie Sadie
09 = In California In California
10 Have One On Me Emily Emily
11 Waltz 101st Waltz 101st Waltz 101st
12 En Gallop Have One On Me Kingfisher; ’81
13 Sadie Baby Birch =
14 Kingfisher Kingfisher Have One On Me
15 Goose Eggs '81 Sprout & Bean
16 '81 Sprout & Bean Baby Birch
17 Sawdust & D Sawdust & D Sawdust & D
18 Sprout & Bean Soft As Chalk Soft As Chalk
19 Soft As Chalk Goose Eggs Swansea
20 Swansea Swansea Goose Eggs
The order of songs
within each album remains almost unchanged, regardless of which of the above methods is used. They line up as follows (with the only variations from this 'official' order being among the HOOM songs marked *). It is also noticeable that there was a more even spread of songs across the four albums this year than in most previous years.
The Milk-Eyed Mender1 En Gallop
2 Sadie
3 The Sprout And The Bean
4 Swansea
Ys1 Only Skin
2 Cosmia
3 Emily
4 Sawdust & Diamonds
Have One One Me1 Go Long
2 In California
3 Baby Birch *
4 Have One On Me *
5 Kingfisher *
6 '81 *
7 Soft As Chalk
Divers1 Divers
2 Anecdotes
3 Time, As A Symptom
4 Waltz Of The 101st Lightborne
5 Goose Eggs
OVERALL RESULTSThe chart below lists the placings of all the songs in this year's JNST.
Positions 1-20 are determined by Round 4, and are as per the 'official' listing tabulated above.
Positions 21-32 are the songs eliminated in Round 3.
I've made an attempt at ordering them, as follows, by summing:
+ 1/4 of the "merit points*" from Round 1, as described in my post of 2.11.17; plus
+ 1/3 of the votes* received in Round 1 (as listed in the same post); plus
+ 1/2 of the votes* received in Round 2; plus
+ total of the votes* received in Round 3.
(* In each case, these quantities were standardised by subtracting the mean and dividing by the sample standard deviation before plugging them into the above calculation).
However, two songs (Sapokanikan and Monkey & Bear) did not appear in Round 2, and so they have been awarded a notional figure of 1.825 instead of a votes total for this round, that figure being midway between the average achieved by all the other songs (1.65) and the maximum (2).
Those two songs, as well as Easy, A Pin-Light Bent, Good Intentions Paving Co., and Peach Plum Pear, did not appear in Round One. On the same basis (ie midway between the average and the maximum among the other songs) they have been awarded a notional merit of 8.02083' points (midpoint of 7.5416' and 8.5), and a notional 3.7083' votes (mid of 3.416' and 4). These four numbers (truncated to 2 decimal places) and the combination of them as described, are shown in brackets after the song title in the list below. (The multipliers were chosen to reflect the relative magnitudes of the quantities, and weightings required to attempt to keep the Round 2A songs ahead of the Round 2B ones).Positions 33-38 are the remaining songs eliminated in Round 2B, in the order they finished in that round.
Positions 39-41 are the three songs eliminated in Round 2A while scoring ½ point in that round, in the order they were shown in the Round 1 Merit table.
Positions 42-54 are the remaining songs eliminated in Round 2A (those scoring 0 points), in the order they were shown in the Round 1 Merit table.
Positions 55-136 are the songs eliminated in Round 1, in the order they were shown in the Round 1 Merit table.
01 Only Skin=2 Divers
=2 Go Long04 Cosmia
05 Anecdotes
06 Emily
07 In California
=8 Baby Birch
=8 Time, As A Symptom
10 Have One On Me
11 Waltz Of The 101st Lightborne
12 "En Gallop" (aka En Gallop!)
13 Sadie
14 Kingfisher
15 Goose Eggs
16 ’81
17 Sawdust & Diamonds
18 Sprout And The Bean
19 Soft As Chalk
20 Swansea
21 Easy
[8.02, 3.71, 2, 0.5 => 2.15]22 Good Intentions Paving Company
[8.02, 3.71, 1.5, 0.5 => 1.52]23 Peach, Plum, Pear
[8.02, 3.71, 1, 0.5 => 0.90]24 Flying A Kite
[8.25, 3.5, 1, 0.5 => 0.74]25 Erin
[8.5, 4, 2, 0 => 0.49]26 A Pin-Light Bent
[8.02, 3.71, 2, 0 => -0.06]=27 Monkey & Bear
[8.02, 3.71, 1.83, 0 => -0.28]=27 Sapokanikan
[8.02, 3.71, 1.83, 0 => -0.28]29 Ribbon Bows
[7.25, 3.5, 2, 0 => -0.63]30 What We Have Known
[8, 3, 2, 0 => -0.93]31 On A Good Day
[6, 3, 2, 0 => -1.75]32 Esme
[7.25, 3.5, 1, 0 => -1.88]33 Yarn And Glue
34 Clam Crab Cockle Cowrie
35 No Provenance
36 The Things I Say
37 Cassiopeia
38 No Style [P]
39 Autumn
40 Same Old Man
41 Three Little Babes
042 Occident
043 Bridges And Balloons
044 The Fray
=45 The Book Of Right-On
=45 Does Not Suffice (In California, Refrain)
=45 The Man Who Ran The Town [HS/JN]
=45 Man’s Road
=45 You And Me, Bess
=50 Another Day [RH/JN]
=50 Leaving The City
=52 Ca’ The Yowes To The Knowes
=52 Inflammatory Writ
=52 Jackrabbits
=055 Instrumental 1999
=055 Picture [RP/JN]
=055 Prepared Harp Improv./Untitled Harp Music
=055 Shame [DB/V/JN+friends]
0059 This Side Of The Blue
0060 The Honey, The Power, The Light [GS]
=061 Kindness Be Conceived [TG]
=061 The North Star Grassman And The Ravens
=061 Rock Bottom Riser [S]
=064 Albatross
=064 Bring Me Down [GS]
=066 Do You Know Who You Are? [GS]
=066 Sycamore [BC]
0068 Make Hay
0069 Exit (aka Orderly Manor) [P]
0070 Under The Paving Stones, The Beach! [JG, CG, CD, JN]
0071 Beautiful Child
=072 Colleen
=072 Don't Make Things [P]
=072 Eleven Continents [RF/LM]
=072 Our Anniversary [S]
=072 Tom Bombadil
=072 The Wheel [BC]
0078 Little Wing
=079 Against The Sky [VB]
=079 Angel
=079 untitled (from One Piece From The Middle) [P]
=079 You Will Not Take My Heart Alive
=083 Hear Me Marching [P]
=083 I'm Already Gone (aka Already Gone) [P]
=083 Never Come Home [P]
=083 Ring The Living Bell [JN/S/WW]
=087 Amerilie [V]
=087 Oh Canada [P]
=087 Sympathy [GS]
=090 Amour Fou [V]
=090 The Orchard [PG/JN/TF]
=090 River Guard [BC]
=090 This Is Just To Say
=090 Through The Trees [RF/LM]
=090 Wake Up Instead [P]
=090 We Are The Doctor [P]
0097 Mountain [GS]
0098 He Needs Me
0099 Lifetime [RF/LM]
=100 Setting The Bushes On Fire [NC]
=100 Swift Nude [P]
0102 Good Heart, Money And Rain [MB]
0103 Secret [P]
0104 Spooks [JG, GC, DG, JN]
=105 Dreams [DB/JN/V]
=105 Franks Vs Frank [NC]
=105 If I Were [VB]
=105 You & Me [KB]
=109 If You Can Afford It [P]
=109 One Horse [P]
0111 Another Disaster [P]
=112 The Conversation [P]
=112 Let Go [P]
0114 Little Picture Of You [KB]
=115 About Me [P]
=115 Happy Birthday To You
=115 Intermission (aka I The Province) [P]
=115 Roots [DB/V/JN/E/SN]
=115 R.U. In [P]
=115 7 Minutes In Heaven [MOB/JN]
=121 Colorchains Of Inner Space [NC]
=121 The Hawk Feeds You To Feed Itself [NC]
=121 Life's A Happy Song Finale [M]
=121 Mountain & Bear [KB]
=121 The Muppet Show Theme [M]
=121 Pow Strikes Pow Implosion [NC]
=127 Ras Trent [LI]
=127 We Are A Crowd [LI]
=129 The French Lieutenant Dreams [JN/TF]
=129 Orange Peter [P]
=131 France [PG/JN/TF]
=131 Get Wolf Boy And Get In Context [NC]
=131 Ill Pearls [NC]
=131 Nonrum Nonproblem [NC]
=131 Nuflesh, Old Thirst [NC]
=131 Rice Precipitation [NC]
I will post the usual cumulative rankings (covering JNSTs I-VII, 2011 to 2017) in a short time.
Posted: 09 Dec 2017, 04:04
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for now ... here are my votes: