Re: Trivia #8 -- Busy-Bodies

"Robert B. Waltz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> This one concerns players and their workloads.
> One point each for the first five questions,
> two points each for #6-#8.
>
> This is another trivia I'm giving not because it's
> easy (although you *can* dig it out of the rankings
> list easily enough) but for what it demonstrates
> about the state of the game.
>
> There is a clue, of sorts, the meaning of which you
> must determine (but it may be easier to ignore it):
>
>  1  2+3    4    8    6    7    5
>
> Question 1: What was the greatest number of events
> played by any Top 150 player?

33
>
> Question 2: What was the greatest number of events
> played by any Top 30 player?

I was going to say 27, but based on the formula above (order of answers in
decreasing order), the answer here is between 27 and 33, so 30.
>
> Question 3: What was the greatest number of events
> played by any Top 20 player?
30 (same as #2)
>
> Question 4: What was the greatest number of events
> played by any Top 10 player?
27 (Dementieva played a lot)
>
> Question 5: What was the SMALLEST number of events
> played by any Top 100 player?
6
>
> Question 6: For the Top 150, what was the MOST
> POPULAR number of events to schedule? (That is,
> look at the number of events each player played --
> 17, 20, 23, whatever. What number was played by
> the most players)?
I had 28, but this must be lower. Maybe 24.
>
> Question 7: A reasonable schedule is between 17
> events (minimum for a full load) and 27. What
> was the LEAST popular number of events in this
> range?
18
>
> Question 8: The top 150 played a combined 3568 events
> in 2003 (or, rather, in the 52 weeks prior to November 11,
> 2003). Consider the number they played in 2002 also.
> To the nearest four, how much did the total increase
> or decrease from 2002 to 2003 (that is, if the figure
> in 2002 had been 3560, you would say "increased by
> eight"; had the 2002 figure been 3570, you would
> say "decreased by two")?
This is either 25 or 26. I only have to be within four, so the question is
whether there is an increase or decrease.  I'm going to go with decrease by
25.

--Glenn