"stanford housewrite"

"stanford housewrite"
Competition season	2015–2016
School(s)	Stanford
Head editor(s)	Stephen Liu
Difficulty	Nats-minus
First mirror	February 2, 2016
Announcement	link
Packets	link

"stanford housewrite" was a nats-minus housewrite by Stanford for the 2016 season. The official name of the set is in lowercase with quotation marks.

The set introduced the concept of "Nationals-minus" difficulty, which it described as "noticeably harder than tournaments such as ACF Regionals and Penn Bowl, but not as hard as ACF Nationals or last year’s George Oppen."

Evaluation of difficulty

Because many teams played both "stanford housewrite" and 2016 ACF Nationals two months later with the exact same lineups, the concept of "nats-minus" difficulty can be evaluated by directly comparing metrics:

	"stanford housewrite"		2016 ACF Nationals
Team	PPB	DTG*	PPB	DTG*
Berkeley A	19.55	1.81	17.02	1.30
Chicago A	21.32	0.86	20.29	0.50
Chicago B	17.46	1.69	14.23	2.24
Maryland	20.40	1.20	18.48	1.11
Michigan	21.77	1.00	20.22	1.05
Minnesota	19.05	1.70	16.05	2.10
Oxford	18.14	2.00	15.03	1.70

* DTG = dead tossups per game involving this team, incorporating both their skill and that of their total opponents

Every team had a higher PPB at Stanford Housewrite than ACF Nationals, and those who had common lineups had a higher PPB still at ACF Regionals, suggesting that the "between Regionals and Nationals" difficulty was achieved in the bonus questions.

Four of the seven teams experienced more dead tossups at Stanford Housewrite than at Nationals, suggesting that tossups were less well-calibrated. A lack of buzzpoint data at both tournaments and the non-use of powers at Nationals precludes exploring issues such as how deep tossups went on average before being answered.

Mirrors

Region	Host	Date	TD	Champion	Runner-up	High scorer	Stats
West Coast	Stanford	2/27/2016	Austin Brownlow	"Carson et al." (Rob Carson, Andrew Hart, Jerry Vinokurov, Jay Bhasin)	Berkeley A	Rob Carson	Round Robin + Final
Mid-Atlantic	Maryland	2/27/2016	Naveed Chowdhury	Chicago A	Maryland	Jordan Brownstein	Round Robin + Final
Canada	Waterloo	2/27/2016	Isaac Thiessen	"Joe Su, Jay of Huma-n's Desiring" (Joe Su, Jay Misuk, Huma Zafar)	"Party Crashers"	Jay Misuk
Midwest	Chicago	3/5/2016	Athena Kern	WUSTL	"Kurtis et al" (Kurtis Droge, Billy Busse, Morgan Venkus, Chinmay Kansara)	Mike Sorice	Prelims+Playoffs+Final
South	Alabama	3/5/2016	Jake Sundberg	"Make Alabama Great Again" (Jake Sundberg, Eric Douglass, Bryn Douglass, Dargan Ware)	"John Milnor's Exotic Vacation" (Billy Beyer, Nick Collins, Jeb Houston, Madeline Carlisle)	Billy Beyer	Combined
UK	Oxford	3/5/2016	Daoud Jackson	Oxford A	"Bayley's British Cream" (Ian Bayley, Edmund Dickinson, Mark Grant, Jonathan Elliot)	Joey Goldman	Combined
Skype		cancelled
Great Plains	Oklahoma	3/19/2016	Caleb Kendrick	"Kendrick" (Caleb Kendrick)	"Bender/Austin" (Finn Bender, Dustin Austin)	Caleb Kendrick	Prelims (Official)

The Oklahoma mirror was only 7 rounds and was forced to change formats after its fifth round when two of the eight total players spread across its five teams had to leave. The remaining players were consolidated into "Oklahoma" and "Other Dudes" for the last two rounds".

Many of the sites also mirrored Christmas Present and Cottage Bowl.